Mapping America’s Diversity, Middle Ea st Politics are Getting Worse, and More

September 22, 2021

The country’s racial and ethnic diversity takes different forms in different places. Demographer William Frey uses the 2020 Census results to show where nonwhite populations are highly represented, and where white populations are rising and declining.

Did the normalization of relations between Israel and the UAE and several other Arab nations help? Is a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine still possible? What’s the latest on Tunisia’s constitutional crisis? Shibley Telhami and Marc Lynch discuss their survey of Middle East experts on developments in the region.

The House’s oversight of the executive branch extends far beyond deeply political and headline-grabbing issues. Naomi Maehr and Molly Reynolds write that an early look at the 117th Congress to date suggests that oversight can still be bipartisan even during high partisan conflict.

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