Manhattan Archives

Why the 2024 presidential election wasn’t about local politics

John Sides - December 12, 2024

Voters may not blame the president when bad things happen in their communities.

Why Trump’s attacks on the NY jury are especially troubling

Melissa Schwartzberg - June 4, 2024

The former president frequently denounces U.S. institutions that don’t agree with him. But this is different.

Just seeing a Fox News logo prompts racial bias, new research suggests

Thomas Gift, Julie Norman, and Andrew M. Bell - December 23, 2022

It’s an example of what social scientists call ‘priming’

Republican senators used racially coded language to question Ketanji Brown Jackson. There’s history to that.

Sharon Wright Austin - March 28, 2022

Compare that to the language senators used to grill Constance Baker Motley in 1966, slowing down her confirmation as the first Black female federal judge.

Bauhaus, ‘Mask’: The Week In One Song

Christopher Federico - July 30, 2021

A CDC reversal on masks.

How did U.S. television news networks cover the pandemic? Here’s a scorecard.

Natalie (Talia) Stroud, Ceren Budak, and Ashley Muddiman - February 2, 2021

The cable networks’ coverage followed their partisan leanings in a number of ways

The Trump campaign claims it wants a foreign policy debate. That’s not likely.

Elizabeth N. Saunders - October 21, 2020

But foreign policy will definitely be on the 2020 ballot.

Israel Vibration, ‘Cough it Up’: The Week In One Song

Christopher Federico - July 10, 2020

The president’s records may be coughed up, at least in one case.

Trump fired a federal prosecutor investigating his allies. Can he do that?

Anne Joseph O’Connell - June 24, 2020

Here’s what you need to know about this Friday night massacre — and why it matters

Coronavirus policies spread quickly across the U.S. Are cities and states learning — or just copying?

Craig Volden and Charles R. Shipan - April 16, 2020

Here’s why that matters.