ONCE again, the youth vote went firmly Democratic in last week’s election — but the actual numbers, combined with some telling survey results, indicate that the party’s grip on the young may be loosening. … When it comes to young voters, liberal politicians are victims of their culture-war success. They […] Read more »
A discussion of PRRI’s fifth annual American Values Survey
On September 23, the religion, policy and politics project at Brookings and PRRI held a discussion of PRRI’s fifth annual American Values Survey (AVS), a large national, multi-issue survey on religion, values and public policy. Co-moderated by Brookings Senior Fellows E.J. Dionne Jr. and William A. Galston, the event featured […] Read more »
Americans Struggling with Economic Insecurity and Concerned about Inequality
Despite the overall improvement in the U.S. economy, a majority of Americans have a decidedly gloomy outlook on their personal financial situation and the economic future of the country heading into the midterm elections, finds the 2014 American Values Survey. … The fifth annual look at religion, values and public […] Read more »
Teaching the Children: Sharp Ideological Differences, Some Common Ground
As the public grows more politically polarized, differences between conservatives and liberals extend their long reach even to opinions about which qualities are important to teach children, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center. People who express consistently conservative political attitudes across a range of issues are more […] Read more »
The Climate Swerve
Americans appear to be undergoing a significant psychological shift in our relation to global warming. I call this shift a climate “swerve,” borrowing the term used recently by the Harvard humanities professor Stephen Greenblatt to describe a major historical change in consciousness that is neither predictable nor orderly. … Of […] Read more »
Republicans More Focused on Immigration as Top Problem
Although both Republicans and Democrats name dysfunctional government, the economy, and unemployment as top problems facing the country today, they attach different importance to other issues. Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are significantly more likely than Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents to say that immigration and moral decline are top problems in […] Read more »