Thought the Soviet Union was anti-American? Try today’s Russia. After a year in which furious rhetoric has been pumped across Russian airwaves, anger toward the United States is at its worst since opinion polls began tracking it. From ordinary street vendors all the way up to the Kremlin, a wave […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Voters feel US is less safe, Islamic extremists making gains
For the first time, a majority of voters thinks the U.S. is less safe today than before 9/11. That’s just one finding in the latest Fox News national poll on terrorism that may concern President Obama. CONT. Dana Blanton, Fox News Read more »
Americans’ views increasingly hawkish on terrorism, ISIS
Last week, I posted a piece laying out the emerging evidence that the American people are shifting toward a more hawkish view of how we should respond to foreign threats, especially terrorism. A Quinnipiac University poll released today underscores that shift. As economic worries gradually subside, concern about terrorism is […] Read more »
Voters Unlikely to Care Much About the Hillary Clinton Email Furor
The report Monday that Hillary Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct government business as secretary of state raises a number of important questions about government transparency and access to public records. Unsurprisingly, however, the conversation quickly veered from matters of policy into ominous speculation about the political […] Read more »
The U.S. public on Israel
The controversy surrounding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress threatens to obscure a fundamental fact: Israel enjoys tremendous support from Americans of almost all stripes. That is not to say that every policy or every leader is equally popular; neither are our own leaders or policies. It is to […] Read more »
Iran Nuclear Deal Backed by Large Majority of Americans
Negotiations over a proposed deal with Iran regarding its nuclear program are coming to a head while a new study finds a clear majority of Americans – 61 percent – support an agreement that would limit Iran’s enrichment capacity and impose additional intrusive inspections in exchange for the lifting of […] Read more »