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Organization Trends
The Emerging Democratic Majority, Dead at 22
The election results in 2024 finally killed the “emerging democratic majority” thesis. In his third election campaign, President-elect Trump nearly split Hispanics evenly. Young people, especially young men, appeared to…
by Michael Watson on November 8, 2024

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on September 20, 2024

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on July 12, 2024

Philanthropy
Big Philanthropy to the Rescue? Think Again.
As the media and elites across America take up a fight to “save democracy,” Big Philanthropy is casting itself in the role of superhero. Since 2011, the University of Pennsylvania’s…
by Jeffrey Cain on April 19, 2024

Foundation Watch
The Gates Foundation’s Common Core Disaster
The Gates Foundation played a crucial role in making the vision of Common Core a reality. Yet after an entire decade of implementation, “no convincing evidence exists that the standards…
by Kali Fontanilla on January 25, 2024

Labor Watch
Teachers Unions Push Restorative Justice Without Evidence
Hardly a week goes by nowadays without some video of a student violently assaulting or verbally attacking their teacher going viral online. Fellow students record the incident and react with…
by Kali Fontanilla on August 8, 2023

Book Profile
Donors’ Distance in Decades of Decadence
“[T]he gulf between the Republican party’s donors and voters has never been greater, and ultimately (and thankfully), the voters hold the power,” according to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida…
by Michael E. Hartmann on July 7, 2023

Organization Trends
The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: The Emerging Democratic Majority
In 2002, liberal scholars John Judis and Ruy Teixeira published a provocative thesis: A new Democratic majority would “emerge” by the end of the decade. Traditional middle-class and working-class Democrats…
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022

Organization Trends
The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: A Prescription or a Prophecy?
The Emerging Democratic Majority is a book of two halves; a description of electoral trends that Judis and Teixeira argue favor the Democrats and a prescription for Democrats to adopt…
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022

Organization Trends
The Thesis That Drove American Politics Crazy: From McConnell to Trump
Sean Trende speculated that a Republican Party advancing the alternate approach “would have to be more ‘America first’ on trade, immigration and foreign policy; less pro–Wall Street and big business…
by Michael Watson on September 1, 2022