In the twenty years since 9/11, most Americans feel the nation’s efforts to reduce terrorism — sometimes referred to as the war on terrorism — have been at least somewhat successful, but that hardly means the threat is gone. They also see today’s terrorism threat in context as, perhaps unfortunately, […] Read more »
9/11’s Long Reach
… 9/11 and its aftermath were life-changing for the majority of adults today. Will its imprint be as strong for subsequent generations? Probably not with the same immediacy, though its genetic material is everywhere. Below I detail the some of the most striking points from our recent survey on the […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Two-thirds think 9/11 permanently changed life in U.S.
As the twentieth anniversary of September 11 approaches, a Fox News Poll conducted before the recent events in Afghanistan finds that two-thirds (64 percent) of registered voters think the 2001 terrorist attacks permanently changed the way we live in the United States. A quarter of respondents say the attacks caused […] Read more »
Biden’s awful August threatens to undermine his presidency
President Biden’s chaotic exit from Afghanistan won’t be the top issue for voters when the midterms arrive next year. But the parade of horribles that have resulted from his decisions—the death of 13 military service members from an ISIS suicide bomb, the Taliban and other terrorist groups celebrating American weakness, […] Read more »
Opposition to U.S. Government Surveillance Grows
Americans have been consistently opposed to warrantless surveillance of phone calls and emails of American citizens for monitoring threats against the United States, but opposition to such surveillance outside of the country has increased over the past 10 years. Twenty years after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, less […] Read more »
Afghanistan showed Biden unbowed
Hours after the last US military flight out of Kabul, President Joe Biden began a meeting in the White House Situation Room with praise. “You all did a helluva job,” Biden told his top national security aides, according to a White House official. He feels the same way about his […] Read more »