As the fall election season takes shape, voters say the country is on the wrong track by 24 points. Yet when asked whether they feel optimistic or pessimistic about America’s future, that deficit shrinks to just four points. That 20-point gap is telling. Americans are disgusted with the division of our politics, but they have […]

You’re not imagining it: Air travel really is becoming more unpleasant. Sure, COVID-19, germophobia, and mask mandates were a short-term catalyst of bad airline behavior, but there’s a deeper problem causing the skies to become less friendly: We no longer think it’s good or important to treat other people well. Doing unto others as you […]

President Donald Trump has spent much of the summer highlighting the success of the American economy. Rising markets. Low unemployment. Billions of dollars in new investment. New factories and expanding domestic production. By many conventional measures, he has a case to make. Yet many Americans hear those achievements and ask a different question: If the […]

I have kept quiet about this for far too long. I have worked in grassroots politics for decades — on local races, statewide races, presidential campaigns, and everything in between. I’ve watched hundreds of millions of dollars pour into elections, consultants come and go and campaigns rise and fall, while armies of conservative volunteers work […]