Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants charter schools gone, but several prominent N.C. and national advocates for charter schools say the presidential contender is out of touch with voters. Rhonda Dillingham, executive director of the N.C. Association for Public Charter Schools, says Warren’s views on school choice don’t jibe with public opinion. “Most Americans are...
Partisan polarization has been a fixture of American politics for several decades now. Recently, analysts have argued it’s asymmetric. To be sure, Democrats have moved to the left. But they have not drifted from the middle ground as much as Republicans have to the right. Political scientists offer several explanations. Republican lawmakers tend to...
During the “dog days” of summer, in what was likely an opening salvo of the 2020 presidential campaign, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts introduced a proposal to alter American capitalism radically. If enacted, large firms would have to incorporate at the federal level and live by a charter that forces them to consider the interests...
As we move into 2018, speculation over who will emerge as the 2020 Democratic nominee for president will begin in earnest. In my view, the early front-runner is U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Independent socialist from Vermont. Coming seemingly out of nowhere in 2016, Sanders gave Hillary Clinton a run for her money for the...
