Trust Issa Rae to make us burst into laughter at an award show. On Saturday night, Rae took home her first-ever win at the NAACP Image Awards for outstanding actress in a comedy series for Insecure. She was up against… Continue Reading
If the transition from 2020 to 2021 taught us anything, it’s that a new calendar year doesn’t keep weird things from happening. We have QAnon-sympathizing politicians in DC, soaring GameStop “stonk” values, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers headed to the… Continue Reading
For the past few months, Joe Biden has been courting a key segment of President Trump’s base: conservative white Christians. That’s a bold move, to say the least — because they made up a huge share of the Republican coalition… Continue Reading
Over the past few months, President Trump has framed the 2020 election as a defense of suburbia. In a Wall Street Journal column in August, he and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson promised to protect the suburbs… Continue Reading
There’s a well-known truth in politics: No one group swings an election. But that doesn’t mean that the demographic trends bubbling beneath the surface can’t have an outsized effect. Take 2016. President Trump won in large part because he carried… Continue Reading