The Biden administration has been grappling with surging numbers of migrants, especially children arriving at the U.S. – Mexico border without their parents. Three-quarters of Americans have read or heard about the large number of children apprehended at the southern border and a majority want to see the government prioritizing […] Read more »
President Biden’s Approval Ratings
While President Biden continues to enjoy an overall high approval rating, the public is less positive about his handling of guns and immigration. Biden continues to enjoy widespread approval of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Seventy-three percent approve of Biden’s handling of the pandemic, including 48% of Republicans. However, […] Read more »
Record-High Worry in U.S. About Hunger, Race Relations
One year after the coronavirus pandemic upended Americans’ lives and caused an economic crisis, worry about hunger and homelessness in the country eclipses concerns about 13 other national issues for the first time. The 55% of U.S. adults who say they personally worry “a great deal” about these consequences of […] Read more »
A momentous shift in US public attitudes toward China
Although public opinion rarely determines the specifics of U. S. foreign policy, it typically defines the zone within which policies with public visibility can be sustained over time. Recent survey research has underscored a shift in Americans’ attitudes towards China that is far-reaching enough to sustain the most adversarial stance […] Read more »
Cyberterrorism Tops List of 11 Potential Threats to U.S.
As the Biden administration continues to explore how it will respond to Russia’s large-scale cyberattack against U.S. companies and federal agencies last year, 82% of Americans say cyberterrorism is a “critical threat” to the vital interests of the U.S. over the next decade. While cyberterrorism ranks atop a list of […] Read more »
Americans are not unanimously war-weary on Afghanistan
In debates on the future of the war in Afghanistan, policymakers and analysts have come to invoke it as a given that Americans want the troops to come home quickly. But does this conventional wisdom hold true? Not necessarily, based on our analysis of a number of polls on Americans’ […] Read more »