As 2019 approaches, most Americans are feeling pretty good about the future. A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll found that 60 percent of Americans are optimistic about the world in 2019, compared with just 37 percent whose outlook is less rosy. …
For the sizable segment of the country that is pessimistic about next year, politics overwhelmingly beat out its competitors as the No. 1 source of doom and gloom. CONT.
Francesca Paris, NPR News