Americans divide over whether or not prostitution should be legal, according to an Exclusive Point Taken-Marist Poll. A majority of men agree it should be legal and think permitting prostitution under the law would allow it to be regulated. Just fewer than half of women believe prostitution should not be […] Read more »
U.S. Decline Is Campaign Hype, Not Reality
As in any U.S. national election without an incumbent president, the candidates are painting a not very pretty picture: The country is “going to hell,” bluntly asserts the Republican front-runner Donald Trump. … Certainly, problems abound. The recovery from the 2008-09 recession has been uneven and is characterized by widening […] Read more »
Concern About Crime Climbs to 15-Year High
Americans’ level of concern about crime and violence is at its highest point in 15 years. Fifty-three percent of U.S. adults say they personally worry “a great deal” about crime and violence, an increase of 14 percentage points since 2014. CONT. Alyssa Davis, Gallup Read more »
How to Hack an Election
… For eight years, [Andrés] Sepúlveda, now 31, says he traveled the continent rigging major political campaigns. … Sepúlveda’s career began in 2005, and his first jobs were small—mostly defacing campaign websites and breaking into opponents’ donor databases. Within a few years he was assembling teams that spied, stole, and […] Read more »
American Attitudes toward Substance Use in the United States
More Americans now die every year from drug overdoses than they do in motor vehicle accidents, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The rise of heroin-related deaths has been particularly sharp. In a recent poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, few […] Read more »
Worry About Terror Attacks in U.S. High, but Not Top Concern
Before the terrorist attacks Tuesday that killed at least 30 in Brussels, 48% of Americans worried “a great deal” about the possibility of future terrorist attacks in the U.S. While this percentage is higher than in most years since 2004, a possible terrorist attack was not Americans’ top concern. CONT. […] Read more »