Americans are more trusting now than they were a year ago in the judicial branch of the federal government, while they have less trust in the executive branch, and their trust in the legislative branch has not changed. As is typically the case, Americans place the greatest faith in the […] Read more »
Narrow Majority Trust Government to Handle Foreign Problems
A slim majority of Americans, 52%, now trust the U.S. federal government to handle international problems, the first time this figure has been at the majority level in five years. Fewer, 45%, trust the government to handle domestic problems, similar to last year but above the record-low 38% in 2015. […] Read more »
Why Foreign Propaganda Is More Dangerous Now
… While television remains the main source of news for most Americans, viewers today tend to select a network in line with their political preferences. Even more significantly, The Pew Research Center has found that two-thirds of Americans are getting at least some of their news through social media. After […] Read more »
Among White Americans, Limits to Empathy for Poverty-Related Issues Run Along Class Lines
A survey released today by PRRI finds that white Americans’ support for policies to address poverty is limited in different ways by education level—by perceived social distance to racial minorities among non-college-educated whites and by lower commitments to equal opportunity among college-educated whites. The survey was conducted by PRRI, a […] Read more »
Thoughts on voter confidence and election reform
The New Hampshire meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity (PACEI) focused on four substantive topics — turnout, voter confidence, fraud, and voting machine security. Here are my thoughts on the voter confidence topic. I start with voter confidence because this is how the entire work of the […] Read more »
How People Approach Facts and Information
When people consider engaging with facts and information any number of factors come into play. How interested are they in the subject? How much do they trust the sources of information that relate to the subject? How eager are they to learn something more? What other aspects of their lives […] Read more »