America’s Stark Political-Economic Divide, Publi c Messaging Around the COVID-19 Crisis, and More

November 11, 2020

In his election victory, Joe Biden captured nearly all the counties with the biggest economies in America. In a new analysis, Mark Muro, Eli Byerly Duke, Yang You, and Robert Maxim shed light on the economic divide between blue and red America and explain what it could mean for the nation’s political landscape.

Following Senegal’s first COVID-19 case, the country moved swiftly and enacted several public health policies to prevent the spread of the virus and protect its fragile health system. Ben Leo and Catherine Winn explain how the government’s transparent and consistent public messaging helped drive a successful response to the crisis.

Unless Democrats manage to win both Senate runoff elections in Georgia, Joe Biden will enter office without both houses of Congress under the control of his party—the first time this has happened in more than three decades. William Galston explains how America got to this deeply but narrowly politicized landscape.

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