40% Think Opioid Drug Crisis Is Getting Worse
President Trump last week urged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to bring a lawsuit against drug companies that produce opioids and therefore contribute to the growing epidemic.
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August 21, 2018
August 21, 2018
82% View Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, Favorably
Aretha Franklin died last week at the age of 76. She was known as the Queen of Soul, and most Americans have R.E.S.P.E.C.T. for her work.
August 21, 2018
Who's the Cleanest of Them All By Stephen Moore
Take a wild guess what country is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions the most? Canada? Britain? France? India? Germany? Japan? No, no, no, no, no and no.
August 21, 2018
In Spies Battle, Trump Holds the High Ground By Patrick J. Buchanan
In backing John Brennan's right to keep his top-secret security clearance, despite his having charged the president with treason, the U.S. intel community has chosen to fight on indefensible terrain.
August 20, 2018
43% Say U.S. Heading in Right Direction
For the second week in a row, 43% of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, this time according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending August 16.
August 20, 2018
67% Disagree With Cuomo About America’s ‘Greatness’
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a hopeful for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination, said recently, “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.”
August 20, 2018
Continuing Protests Likely to Hit NFL Hard
Nearly one-in-four regular watchers of the National Football League say the threat of continuing on-the-field protests may make them turn off pro football this year.
August 18, 2018
Is Trump a Brand-New Weird Existential Threat to the Republic? By Ted Rall
This past week, more than 300 American newspapers colluded -- if the word fits -- to simultaneously publish editorials declaring themselves, contra Trump, not "the enemy of the people." Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution declaring that it, too, did not consider the press to be, in a phrase that evokes the rhetoric of the former Soviet Union, state enemies.
August 18, 2018
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls - Week Ending August 18, 2018
The Declaration of Independence says that governments derive their authority from the consent of the governed, but few voters think the American government today has the consent of its governed.
August 17, 2018
Republicans More Likely To Vote Party Line Than Democrats
Republicans have more allegiance to their political party than Democrats.
August 17, 2018
Has Trump Delivered on His Economic Promises? By Michael Barone
Is President Trump fulfilling candidate Trump's promises?
August 17, 2018
46% See Benefit of A Competitive Third Party
As the nation gears up for midterm elections, half of voters say they’ve voted independent and think the nation would benefit from a strong third party.
August 17, 2018
Can America Ever Come Together Again? By Patrick J. Buchanan
If ex-CIA Director John Brennan did to Andrew Jackson what he did to Donald Trump, he would have lost a lot more than his security clearance.
He would have been challenged to a duel and shot.
August 16, 2018
Most Say E-Cigarettes No Healthier Than Traditional Ones
A new study out this week determined that smoking electronic cigarettes, or “vaping,” may be more harmful than originally thought, something Americans have worried about for years.
August 16, 2018
Voters Don’t Like ‘Antifa’ Protesters, Say They’re Looking for Trouble
Voters are even more critical of the so-called “antifa” protesters who surfaced again this past weekend in Charlottesville and Washington, DC and continue to think they’re chiefly interested in causing trouble.
August 16, 2018
Parents See Higher Back-to-School Costs This Year
It’s back-to-school time again, and parents are expecting to open their wallets wider this year to prepare.
August 16, 2018
The Governors: Ratings Changes Abound By Kyle Kondik
Now that 40 of the 50 states have held primaries so far, including major primaries in Minnesota and Wisconsin on Tuesday night, we thought this was a good time to take stock of, and to reassess, the gubernatorial landscape.
August 15, 2018
Five Years Later, Many Say Snowden is Neither Hero Nor Traitor
It’s been five years since Edward Snowden exposed the federal government’s surveillance of millions of innocent Americans in the name of national security, and voters still think he falls somewhere in between the lines of hero and traitor, though they still want him tried for treason.
August 15, 2018
Republicans More Likely to See a ‘Party of the People’ These Days
Voters—and Republicans specifically—have more faith these days that someone in Washington represents them.
