Category: Beyond Red vs. Blue: Key Issues at a Glance
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When the Courthouse Pushes Back
How the Federal Judiciary Is Reshaping — and Constraining — the Second Trump Term When most Americans visualize checks and balances, they picture Congress. They see filibusters, oversight hearings, budget standoffs, and the periodic drama of confirmation battles. But the defining institutional check on executive power in 2025 and 2026 has not originated on Capitol…
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45% Independent: What America’s Fastest-Growing Political Identity Really Means
A record 45% of U.S. adults now call themselves political independents — outnumbering Republicans and Democrats combined for the first time in Gallup’s tracking. But who are they, really? Most still lean one direction when pressed, yet the choice to drop the party label appears to be its own kind of statement: about institutional trust…