The Constitution's First Amendment protects free speech for good reason.
If people can't say what they want, we don't have honest debate.
I was relieved when Donald Trump, campaigning for the presidency, said, "If we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country!"
President Donald Trump is in a fight for the destiny of the Americas.
A narrow majority of voters – including two-thirds of Democrats – are in favor of having the current government shutdown continue.
Nine months into President Donald Trump’s second term, voters now have a slightly less favorable view of the Democratic Party than they do of Republicans.
Forty-three percent (43%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending October 16, 2025.
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
A solid majority of voters of every political persuasion are opposed to government subsidies for business.
"What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass." That was the mordant comment of Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first prime minister, on the failure of a liberal reform to achieve the results promised with great assurance by the articulate liberal eminences of the day.
Most Americans continue to see their financial situation as stagnant or worsening, and fewer than 1-in-5 report it’s getting better.
A plurality of voters believe the recent federal indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James are about getting revenge on enemies of President Donald Trump.
— Gov. Janet Mills’s (D-ME) Senate run sets up an intriguing primary that will test Democratic voters’ willingness to go along with the preferences of party leaders.
— Mills’s most prominent rival, oyster farmer Graham Platner (D), is already attacking her, and the primary illustrates several fissures in the party, including insider vs. outsider and older vs. younger.
— There are several instances of sitting governors losing Senate primaries in the postwar era, but these are generally from decades ago.
At a time when a historic peace deal has ended the Gaza War, support for Israel has significantly declined among American voters
Later this week the United Nations will hold a vote on a multibillion-dollar climate change tax targeted squarely at American industry. Without quick and decisive action by the White House, this U.N. tax on fossil fuels will become international law.
National unemployment was 8.3% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, remaining the same as last month. Due to the government shutdown, there is no percentage officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for today.
National unemployment was 8.7% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, up slightly from last month. Due to the government shutdown, there is no percentage officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for today.
More Americans now say they don’t trust lawyers, and those who’ve hired an attorney before trust them even less.
Democrats continue to be more trusted on the health care issue, which is central to the current government shutdown.
A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump could not deploy National Guard troops to defend offices of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, but a majority of voters back the president’s position.
Forty-four percent (44%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending October 9, 2025.
