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Lies, Damned Lies and Washington

There are days in Washington lately when it feels like the truth itself is on trial. Monday was one of those days. … While truth was deemed an endangered species in the nation’s capital long before President Trump’s arrival, it has become axiomatic in the era of “alternative facts” that […] Read more »

Divisiveness and Collaboration in American Public Life: A Hidden Common Ground Report

This inaugural Public Agenda/USA Today/Ipsos Hidden Common Ground survey examines how Americans view divisiveness and partisan divides in public life and offers a number of solutions to build a more collaborative society, despite our social and political differences. Overall, the research shows a good deal of cross-partisan agreement on the […] Read more »

Divided we fall? Americans see our angry political debate as ‘a big problem’

Americans are united on this: They are sick and tired of being so divided. The divisive national debate over just about everything has convinced many that the country is heading in the wrong direction even as their own lives are going well, the inaugural Public Agenda/USA TODAY/Ipsos poll finds. By […] Read more »

Impeachment polls and the risk of a self-fulfilling prophecy

… Impeachment polls matter; as I’ve noted many times (and will surely have to note again), impeachment is more a political process than a judicial one. Poll movement over time matters, too. Nonetheless, the widespread notion that support for impeachment is stagnant is a selective interpretation. As Nieman Lab’s Joshua […] Read more »

Party Cues in the News: Elite Opinion Leadership and Climate Skepticism

Supporters of the Republican Party have become much more skeptical of the science of climate change since the 1990s. We argue that this phenomenon can be explained by a model of top-down persuasion by party elites. We construct aggregate measures of climate skepticism from nearly 200 public opinion polls at […] Read more »