Opinion Today
November 21, 2025
Understanding Evolving Republican Attitudes Towards Democracy Public Agenda and the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University As the U.S. ends the first year of the second Trump administration, divisions within the Republican party are becoming more visible. While Republicans are generally aligned in their policy goals, their approaches to achieving those outcomes differ, revealing deeper cleavages rooted in attitudes toward concepts such as the rule of law. Divergent opinions about the appropriate balance of power between the Legislative and Executive branches suggest that disagreement over the scope and limits of presidential authority has become a prominent new fault line within the Republican party.
The Argument poll: The COVID political backlash disappeared Lakshya Jain, The Argument Five years on from COVID, as partisan tensions have cooled, the public’s view of the issue remains extremely nuanced and complicated — just like the pandemic itself. But there’s little to suggest that Democrats are suffering from any long-term, lingering fallout. When it comes to their handling of COVID, for instance, both parties were underwater. But Democrats (-6) fared considerably better than Republicans (-23). In fact, even though Joe Biden was the most unpopular president in our dataset, his ratings on COVID (-8) were significantly better than Donald Trump’s (-22).
Americans’ Social Media Use 2025 Jeffrey Gottfried and Eugenie Park, Pew Research Center Growing shares of U.S. adults say they are using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp and Reddit, but YouTube still rises to the top
More Americans prefer to watch the news than read or listen to it Emily Tomasik and Christopher St. Aubin, Pew Research Center The information environment has experienced major changes in recent years, from the rise of podcasts and news influencers on social media to declining audiences for traditional news outlets. But overall, there has been little shift in the way Americans prefer to get their news – whether by watching it, reading it or listening to it.
When Americans say they get news from TV, what do they mean? Jacob Liedke and Luxuan Wang, Pew Research Center Even though more Americans now use streaming services – like Netflix – than subscribe to cable or satellite TV, most people who say they get news from television still rely on cable, satellite or broadcast channels.
Religiousness varies a lot by race among Democrats, relatively little among Republicans Jeff Diamant, Pew Research Center Democrats are less likely than Republicans to believe in God, to pray, to attend religious services, and to say religion is very important to them, according to Pew Research Center surveys. At the same time, among Democrats, religiousness differs widely by race and ethnicity. On a host of measures, White Democrats – and sometimes Asian Democrats – are a lot less religious than Black and Hispanic Democrats. Among Republicans, there is less variation.
Tracking Americans’ opinion on women from the 1930s to today Kathy Frankovic, YouGov What do Americans think about women’s rights and roles today - decades after the rise of the women’ movement? Re-asking survey questions first asked as long ago as the 1940s — as well as during the rise of the women’s movement in the 1960s, 1970s and more recently — YouGov attempted to find out.
