Inside Washington, there’s a sense that this scandal really is different. Even the White House’s memorandum of the phone conversation President Trump had with the Ukrainian president in July makes it clear that Mr. Trump asked a foreign country to help him undermine a political rival. But while national polls […] Read more »
Elizabeth Warren’s Two Approaches to Government
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has moved to the top tier of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, based in part on her detailed and highly specific plans for addressing the nation’s pressing policy issues. … In addition to her plans for a much-elevated use of government as the means for addressing social […] Read more »
Public Expresses Favorable Views of a Number of Federal Agencies
Despite historically low levels of public trust in the federal government, Americans across the political spectrum continue to overwhelmingly express favorable opinions of a number of individual federal agencies, including the Postal Service, the National Park Service, NASA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). And majorities of […] Read more »
Partisans’ Trust in Legislative Branch Has Shifted in Past Year
Democrats are significantly more trusting, and Republicans significantly less trusting, of the legislative branch of the federal government than they were a year ago. The percentage of Democrats who have a great deal or fair amount of trust has increased from 33% to 45%, while Republican trust has shown a […] Read more »
Trust in Government to Handle Domestic Problems Still Down
Although Americans’ confidence in the government to handle domestic and international problems is up from the record lows seen around the time of the partial government shutdown in January, only views of international problems have recovered to last year’s levels. CONT. RJ Reinhart, Gallup Read more »
The challenging politics of climate change
… As the climate crisis becomes more serious and more obvious, Americans remain resistant to decisive and comprehensive action on climate change. … As scientific evidence about the causes of climate change has mounted and as a consensus has evolved in the scientific community, the public has remained divided and […] Read more »