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
Americans are divided over DEI programs on college campuses, an AP-NORC poll finds Jocelyn Gecker and Linley Sanders, Associated Press 5 facts about food costs in America Rebecca Leppert, Pew Research Center
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 White Christian Decline, Unaffiliated Rise Trends Slow in 2024, New PRRI Census of American Religion Finds Robert P. Jones, White Too Long
North Carolina: Three-in-four voters say tariffs will increase prices Carolina Journal America in Focus: What Worries 11 Democratic Voters Most About Trump — and What They Want From Democrats Katherine Miller, Kristen Soltis Anderson and Adrian J. Rivera, New York Times [unlocked]
The white rural reckoning Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, Public Notice Stephen Miller re-emerges as an ‘untouchable’ force in Trump’s White House Jonathan Allen, Matt Dixon, Katherine Doyle and Sahil Kapur, NBC News Notes on the State of Politics: Omaha Mayor, Past Voter Turnout in New Jersey and Virginia J. Miles Coleman, Sabato’s Crystal Ball How Democrats Might Flip the Senate Ed Kilgore, The Democratic Strategist Trump Helped Ease Marjorie Taylor Greene Out of Possible Senate Run Josh Dawsey, Jasmine Li and Olivia Beavers, Wall Street Journal [unlocked] Dems are saying the quiet part out loud about 2028 Elena Schneider, Politico Here’s What Elon Musk Sees When He Opens X Stuart A. Thompson, New York Times [unlocked] Doomier and Loopier: Why our two-party system will not – and cannot - self-correct on its own Lee Drutman, Undercurrent Events Power to the people? How Dobbs failed to deliver on democratic representation Brian Schaffner and Caroline Soler (Tufts), APSA Preprints Did the media blow it on Biden? Nate Silver, Silver Bulletin The New Battleground for 2028 Olivia Julianna, The Contrarian
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