The rise of the right has reshaped how we think about patriotism | ‘Cautiously optimistic’: Swing voters describe their view of America at 250 | America, Still Worth Fixing … Here’s the Fix | ‘There Is No Going Back’: The Inside Story of Europe’s Rupture With America | Supreme Court’s dramatic moves will reshape elections — and give the GOP a midterm boost … & more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260706-topline
Americans excited to celebrate July 4, but divided on Trump’s role | Americans say they’re sick of politics taking over their lives. With exceptions. | Nearly Half of Americans Don’t Know What America’s 250th Is Celebrating | 250 years after independence: how do Britons see the USA? … & more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260705
What Americans think about the revolution, 250 years later | On its 250th birthday, the US is still defined by its fault lines | What Would Mark Twain Think of America at 250? | Presidential Approval on the Path to the Midterm | Landslide Coming? | Billionaires, Corporate Landlords, and AI Companies Are Seen As Among the Worst Actors in U.S. Society … & more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260703-topline
Freedom is the value Americans say best represents the U.S. | About a third of Democrats like political leaders who identify as democratic socialists | What We’ve Learned from the 2026 Primaries So Far | Support for banning social media for kids under 16 | Perception of the health harms of climate change | How Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ changed America | Have people stopped trusting science? … & more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260702-topline
Control of the Senate Is Up for Grabs | Half of Americans support eliminating health insurance companies | More Independents say the Republican Party is too extreme than say the Democratic Party is | Americans worry about direction of the country | Belief in falsehoods about vaccines … & much more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260701-topline
America at 250 — its successes and its challenges | Americans’ pride in US history and democracy drops | At 250, nation may be too divided to celebrate as one | America’s most (and least) popular politicians in 2026 | Most Americans Back Foreign Aid a Year After USAID’s End | Texas Is a Tossup | What’s Driving the New Urban Left? … & much more: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260630
