Opinion Today

January 2, 2024

More Americans think foreign policy should be a top US priority for 2024, an AP-NORC poll finds
Will Weissert & Linley Sanders, Associated Press
In this time of war overseas, more Americans think foreign policy should be a top focus for the U.S. government in 2024, with a new poll showing international concerns and immigration rising in importance with the public. About 4 in 10 U.S. adults named foreign policy topics in an open-ended question that asked people to share up to five issues for the government to work on in the next year.

2024: The public’s priorities and expectations
Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research
Foreign policy issues top the public’s agenda for 2024, followed by economic concerns. Education, the environment and climate change, and health care continue to be major concerns. Most Americans do not expect things to get better for themselves or the country in the upcoming year.

A fraying coalition: Black, Hispanic, young voters abandon Biden as election year begins
Susan Page, Savannah Kuchar & Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today
In a new USA Today/Suffolk University Poll, Biden's failure to consolidate his victorious 2020 support has left him narrowly trailing Trump.