Michele Norris

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Michele Norris

President Donald Trump has said multiple times that he has no plans to cut Social Security. That suggests he understands the old political axiom that Social Security is the third rail in American politics. Touch it and get torched. But we see something different in his administration’s actions.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Michele Norris

As President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, what he doesn’t say will be more revealing and certainly more consequential than the rah-rah rhetoric he is expected to deliver. You are going to hear the word “mandate” over and over again to justify the indiscriminate pickaxe Trump has taken to federal programs. Indeed, if one were planning a drinking game where you took a sip every time the word “mandate” was mentioned, then you’d get light-headed at lightning speed.

2 months ago | msnbc.com | Michele Norris

As President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, what he doesn’t say will be more revealing and certainly more consequential than the rah-rah rhetoric he is expected to deliver. You are going to hear the word “mandate” over and over again to justify the indiscriminate pickaxe Trump has taken to federal programs. Indeed, if one were planning a drinking game where you took a sip every time the word “mandate” was mentioned, then you’d get light-headed at lightning speed.

Feb 9, 2025 | msnbc.com | Michele Norris

As the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles prepare to square off in the Super Bowl Sunday evening, we might as well admit that gambling has become as much a part of sports in America as tailgating, trash talk and sky-high stacks of pizza boxes, beer cans and cheesy nachos. Gone are the days when sports gambling carried a certain taint as a backroom, underworld, slightly sketchy vice that earned a mixture of judgment or even scorn.

Feb 1, 2025 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Michele Norris

There’s much commonality in Americans’ experiences and feelings about race, yet every story is unique. That’s just one intriguing and important lesson offered by Michele Norris’ sprawling scrapbook-cum-sociological-study, Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity. The book is based on an ongoing project that invites ordinary people to share their insights on the racial divides that persist in our society.