This week we released our first Axios-Ipsos American Health Index, which builds off of our Axios-Ipsos Coronavirus Index and expands into some of the biggest worries Americans have around healthcare, behaviors surrounding health and wellness, and what policies the public supports. Between March 2020 and now, a lot has changed. […] Read more »
Our system doesn’t act even when we agree. That’s killing us.
When friends of the United States abroad enumerate aspects of our politics they simply can’t understand, I’ve found they often point to the inability of our democracy to deal comprehensively with the mass slaughter our permissive gun laws enable. Every new outrage — including the recent incidents in Arkabutla, Miss., […] Read more »
Five years after Parkland, what has changed?
One week, two widely publicized mass shootings. One at a school and another a few buildings down from where a shooter killed 23 in 2019. These two mass shootings come on the heels of the fifth anniversary of the 2018 Parkland, Florida shooting, one of the deadliest school shootings in […] Read more »
Most Americans think changes to policing are necessary
Amid renewed discussion of police procedures, large bipartisan majorities believe at least some changes are necessary. Partisans do differ on the extent of change needed and the urgency of police reform generally: Democrats say major changes are needed; Republicans say minor ones would suffice. Democrats consider police reform a high […] Read more »
Confidence in police practices drops to a new low
Americans’ confidence in how police are trained and their treatment of Black people both have fallen to new lows in an ABC News/Washington Post poll. Following the death of Tyre Nichols after he was beaten by Memphis police on Jan. 7, just 39 percent of adults in the national survey […] Read more »
Public opinion remains split on police killings
We’re here again. Another senseless police killing. Another Black person needlessly dead, another devastating video documenting the violence. We’ve been here too many times. And reactions are mixed, as usual, between those who think these killings are isolated events, and those who see them as part of a pattern that […] Read more »