Half of Latinos say their situation in the U.S. has worsened over the past year, up from 32% in the weeks after Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election and the highest level since the Great Recession. In addition, more say they have serious concerns about their place in American […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Health care boosts Democrats in upcoming midterm elections
There is a deluge of bad news for Republicans in the latest Fox News poll. Most voters are unhappy with the direction the country is taking. Majorities disagree with President Trump on the border wall, and extra tax-cut cash is nowhere to be seen. And, by a wide margin, Democrats […] Read more »
Stand or Kneel?
A new Grinnell College National Poll shows that feelings about what professional football players do, or don’t do, during the playing of the national anthem are as intense as all the news coverage suggests. The poll, conducted less than one week before this season’s National Football League kickoff on Thursday, […] Read more »
NBC/WSJ poll: Majority say kneeling during anthem ‘not appropriate’
A majority of voters say that it is not appropriate for NFL players to kneel during the national anthem to protest racial inequality in the United States, although the country is deeply divided on the question along partisan and racial lines, a poll released Friday from NBC News and The […] Read more »
Reclaiming Patriotism for the Left
The resurgence of blood-and-soil nationalism around the world seems to prove that appeals to nationhood are too racist, too tribal and too dangerous to be of value. Yet surrendering patriotism to champions of the ethno-state abdicates the fight for the soul and meaning of the American project. The American left, […] Read more »
Across Most of the Americas, National Pride Is High and Stable, While It Has Plummeted in the U.S.
Gallup’s 2018 poll reports that the United States has a record-low proportion of citizens very proud to be American. Is declining national pride a region-wide trend? How does national pride vary across countries, years, and individuals, in the Americas? This Insights report shows that national pride is high in most […] Read more »