Opinion Today

July 26, 2022

Republicans' Environmental Worry Varies by Age
Megan Brenan, Gallup
Even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June ruling that limits the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, a near-record-high 44% of Americans said they worried "a great deal" about the quality of the environment. As with many issues, though, partisans' views differ sharply on this measure.

Overturning Roe is not making laws reflect what people want – new survey highlights flaws in Supreme Court’s reasoning in returning abortion authority to states
Matthew A Baum, Alauna Safarpour & Kristin Lunz Trujillo, Harvard Kennedy School
Instead of increasing democratic representation, the Dobbs ruling has actually widened the gap between public preferences and public policy, both nationwide and within many states. Not only are state-level policies currently unaligned with state-level public opinion, but, since the Dobbs decision was announced, Americans also increasingly appear to prefer f…