Americans Grow More Divided on US Support for Israel Dina Smeltz and Lama El Baz, Chicago Council on Global Affairs With a few exceptions, most political leaders on Capitol Hill have remained steadfast in their support for the US-Israel relationship throughout the ongoing Israel-Gaza war. But the American public has become much more divided in its views. Chicago Council on Global Affairs-Ipsos surveys, fielded April 18–20 and May 2–4, 2025, find a widening gap between Democrats and Republicans on the US approach to the conflict.
Which Republicans identify as MAGA Republicans? Kathy Frankovic, YouGov Since September 2022, as many as six in 10 Republicans have thought of themselves as MAGA Republicans, according to Economist/YouGov Polls that have asked since then, “Do you identify as a MAGA Republican?” That peak level of 60% MAGA came in March, and has slipped since then.
Americans are divided over DEI programs on college campuses, an AP-NORC poll finds Jocelyn Gecker and Linley Sanders, Associated Press As President Donald Trump seeks to end diversity, equity and inclusion practices on college campuses, a new poll suggests that while the concept of DEI is divisive, some of the initiatives being affected by his administration’s guidance are less controversial. The poll, conducted earlier this month by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found about 4 in 10 Americans “strongly” or “somewhat” favor DEI programs in colleges and universities, while about 3 in 10 oppose those initiatives and about 3 in 10 are neutral. 5 facts about food costs in America Rebecca Leppert, Pew Research Center How Americans fill their shopping carts at the grocery store is partly driven by prices. About six-in-ten U.S. adults say food costs are extremely or very important to them when deciding what food to buy, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. With egg prices at a near-record level and higher tariffs taking effect, here are five facts about food costs in the United States, based on Center surveys and federal data.
A majority of registered voters want federal agencies to increase their efforts to protect people from the health harms of global warming Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication In the latest Climate Change in the American Mind survey, conducted in December 2024 (after the presidential election, but before the Trump administration took office), we asked Americans how much federal agencies such as the CDC, the NIH, and FEMA should do to protect people from health problems related to global warming. White Christian Decline, Unaffiliated Rise Trends Slow in 2024, New PRRI Census of American Religion Finds Robert P. Jones, White Too Long Earlier this month, we released our 2024 annual update to the PRRI Census of American Religion, based on a massive set of interviews among a random sample of over 40,000 Americans. Overall, we found that the decades long trends of white Christian decline and the rise of the religiously unaffiliated—the defining dynamics of the American religious landscape in the 21st century—have slowed but not abated.
