Opinion Today
March 13, 2024
Yahoo News/YouGov poll: No State of the Union bump for Biden Andrew Romano, Yahoo News The speech earned rave reviews from pundits — but so far, Americans don't seem convinced by the president's energetic new pitch.
LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6% Jeffrey M. Jones, Gallup The percentage of U.S. adults who consider themselves something other than heterosexual has more than doubled since Gallup first asked about sexual orientation and transgender identity in 2012. These changes have been led by younger Americans, with about one in 10 millennials and one in five Gen Z adults having an LGBTQ+ status.
New Survey Shows Broad Support for LGBTQ Rights Nationally, Despite Overall Declines in the Past Year PRRI A new national survey by PRRI profiles the growing population of LGBTQ Americans and Americans’ views on LGBTQ rights across all 50 states, based on interviews with more than 22,000 adults throughout 2023 as part of its American Values Atlas. For the first time since PRRI’s American Values Atlas began tracking nationwide support for three key policies — nondiscrimination protections, religiously based service refusals, and same-sex marriage — PRRI found a decline in support for LGBTQ rights across all three measures in the past year.
Americans feel the need to be extra careful when discussing Israel-Palestine Shibley Telhami, Brookings Institution The scale of horror inflicted on civilians in the war in Israel and Gaza, and the central role that the United States has played in backing Israel in the war, have raised the issue’s profile in American politics and the American public discourse. Similarly, the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the ongoing war, and the American backing of Ukraine have elevated this issue in American politics. Has our public discourse been hospitable to frank conversations on those critical issues? To find out, I designed a few questions in our University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll with Ipsos.
