The accelerating red-state offensive to censor what public-school students are taught about racism is emerging as a critical companion measure to proliferating race-based voter restrictions in many of the same states. The two-pronged fight captures how aggressively Republicans are moving to entrench their current advantages in red states, even as […] Read more »
Two Covid Americas: The unvaccinated are less worried than the boosted
Covid’s starkly different impact on the young and old has been one of the virus’s defining characteristics. It tends to be mild for children and younger adults but is often severe for the elderly. More than three-quarters of all U.S. Covid deaths have occurred among people 65 and older. Given […] Read more »
America remains on pause as Omicron continues
The Administration’s efforts to distribute masks and tests has been met with widespread public approval. Over four in five Americans (84%) support the federal government mailing free at-home COVID tests to anyone who wants one, including a majority (65%) of the unvaccinated. Similar numbers (84%) also support making N95 masks […] Read more »
Americans’ Views of Race Issues Including Critical Race Theory, Systemic Racism and Reparations
As the U.S. enters the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday weekend, new results from a national University of Massachusetts Amherst Poll shed light on Americans’ racial views and their attitudes toward critical race theory. The poll found that over half of Americans (53%) believe that white people in the U.S. […] Read more »
Military Brass, Judges Among Professions at New Image Lows
Gallup’s annual rating of the honesty and ethics of various professions finds five of the 22 occupations rated this year at new lows in public esteem. While the majority of Americans continue to believe military officers have high ethics (61%), the score is down 10 percentage points since it was […] Read more »
One year after Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, concern about misinformation is high
As the spread of false information tops the list of the public’s concerns at the moment, a new Ipsos poll finds that nearly half of Americans get a failing grade (defined as answering 5 or fewer questions correctly, out of 10) when asked to determine if a set of statements […] Read more »