With the meeting to finalize and formalize the divorce between the United Kingdom and the European Union just days away, Britons’ approval of the EU’s leadership is at its highest point in a decade. CONT. Ben Ryan & RJ Reinhart, Gallup Read more »
Divided Britain: study finds huge chasm in attitudes
Britain is hugely divided across cultural, age and education lines, a major study of national attitudes has concluded, warning of a potential rise in far-right and anti-Islam sentiments unless politicians tackle long-standing disaffections behind the Brexit vote. There is a particular chasm between people living in affluent, multicultural cities and […] Read more »
Trump’s International Ratings Remain Low, Especially Among Key Allies
America’s global image plummeted following the election of President Donald Trump, amid widespread opposition to his administration’s policies and a widely shared lack of confidence in his leadership. Now, as the second anniversary of Trump’s election approaches, a new 25-nation Pew Research Center survey finds that Trump’s international image remains […] Read more »
The Religion of Whiteness Becomes a Suicide Cult
… To understand the rapid mainstreaming of white supremacism in English-speaking liberal democracies today, we must examine the experience of unprecedented global migration and racial mixing in the Anglosphere in the late 19th century: countries such as the United States and Australia where, as Roosevelt wrote admiringly in 1897, “democracy, […] Read more »
Ipsos’ Misperceptions Index: Americans Trail Only Italians in Being Most Wrong on Key Facts About Society
Ipsos has been running studies on how wrong people are about key social realities in their country since 2014. … Ipsos summarized its extensive body of research with a Misperceptions Index on which the United States ranks second among 13 countries. The index is based on answers from over 50,000 […] Read more »
Loneliness and Social Isolation in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan
In recent years, the issue of social isolation and loneliness has garnered increased attention from researchers, policymakers, and the public as societies age, the use of technology increases, and concerns about the impact of loneliness on health grow. To understand more about how people view the issue of loneliness and […] Read more »