It has been 70 years since D-Day and the Allied landing in Normandy, the attack that began the invasion of Europe and led to the end of World War II. World War II remains one of only two wars of the 20th and 21st century that most Americans are sure […] Read more »
Do Americans really love drone strikes?
The use of unmanned aerial vehicles has become a “key feature” of the Obama administration’s foreign policy, with more than 400 strikes in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen since 2008. Whether these strikes work has been the subject of much debate. So has the question of whether the local populace in […] Read more »
Public Opinion on the ‘4s’ Through Recent History
Now that we are firmly ensconced in the summer of 2014, it is a good time to take stock of what was on the American public’s mind 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 years ago — in the early summer of previous years ending in “4” going back to […] Read more »
D-Day — color footage by cameraman Jack Lieb
The prudent, not isolationist, public
There’s a lot of hue and cry these days about the American public turning isolationist, seeking to retreat from the world. That, though, is both a misreading of the polls and, frankly, reflects a too-readily dismissive view of what pioneering pollster Elmo Roper once called “the common sense of the […] Read more »
National security a key issue
Since the beginning of this year, there have been an abundance of issues in the national security category that hold great promise for Republicans, if we only have the courage and skill to leverage them. … If Republicans really and truly want to win elections by persuading some Democrats to […] Read more »