Opinion Today
July 10, 2026
U.S. Hispanics Are Divided on Whether Their Identity Helps or Hurts Them in America Gabriel Piña, Mark Hugo Lopez, Sahana Mukherjee, Dalia Fahmy and Alexandra Cahn, Pew Research Center For most Hispanics living in the United States, their Hispanic identity is an important part of how they see themselves. But there is no single view of what that identity means for their lives: some people see it as a source of connection or advantage, while others associate it with obstacles to getting ahead.
Americans’ views of Israelis have grown increasingly negative, but views of Palestinians have held fairly steady Becka A. Alper and Laura Silver, Pew Research Center The American public’s attitudes toward both the Israeli people and the Israeli government have turned more negative in the past few years. Views of the Palestinian people, the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have held fairly steady, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Most American Jews don’t feel supported by either party or President Trump, new AP-NORC poll finds Steve Peoples and Linley Sanders, The Associated Press A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Jewish adults don’t feel well represented by political leaders at a troubling moment for many in their community.... The new survey of 1,022 Jewish adults — including people who identify as Jewish by religion and religiously unaffiliated people who identify as Jewish through culture, ethnicity or family background — offers a rare detailed accounting of a key demographic that sits at the very center of some of the nation’s most divisive political debates.
Few Jewish adults feel supported by the major political parties or the president AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Jewish adults in the United States express skepticism toward both major political parties, with just 15% saying the Democratic Party supports them extremely or very well and 16% saying the same of the Republican Party. This sense of limited political support is reflected in Jews’ overall views of the parties themselves: half view the Democratic Party unfavorably while 71% view the Republican Party unfavorably.
Most Jewish Americans think antisemitism is a serious problem that has escalated in recent years AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Only 34% of Jewish adults feel safe as a Jewish person living in the United States today. And about 2 in 10 report being verbally harassed or harassed online in the last year because of their Jewish faith.
Many US Jewish adults have experienced assault or harassment over the past year, AP-NORC poll finds Linley Sanders and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux, The Associated Press A new AP-NORC poll finds that many Jewish Americans feel unsafe in the United States, with a majority saying they feel less safe than they did before Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Among American Jews, views on Jewish identity and Israel vary by religiosity AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research Forty percent of religiously affiliated Jewish adults feel very or extremely emotionally attached to Israel and 48% say supporting Israel is a key part of their Jewish identity. Among secular Jews, only 11% say they are emotionally attached to Israel and just 12% consider support of Israel a key part of their Jewish identity.
An Honest Assessment of Voter Attitudes Toward Government-Run Health Insurance The Searchlight Institute The Searchlight Institute recently partnered with the progressive new media organization Zeteo to field a joint survey regarding the level of government involvement voters would prefer in the American health care system.
