Opinion Today
July 17, 2026
Trump approval stuck in the 30s amid pessimism on Iran and economy, poll finds Dan Balz and Scott Clement, The Washington Post [unlocked] Americans give President Donald Trump broadly negative reviews for his handling of key issues, say they are strained by the cost of living and are pessimistic that the administration’s start-and-stop negotiations with Iran will lower gas prices or prevent the Iranians from developing a nuclear weapon, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll.
Majority feel they don’t have a good chance of improving their standard of living Alec Tyson, Mallory Newall and Bernard Mendez, Ipsos The initial release of a new Washington Post/Ipsos poll finds that 59% of Americans say they do not think people like them and their family have a good chance at improving their standard of living, compared to 40% that do. In addition, 48% also say they expect the nation’s economy to get worse in the next year (20% better, 31% stay about the same).
How Americans Are Engaged With News, Politics, Religion and Civic Life Pew Research Center Americans’ engagement with others is not one-dimensional, according to a new Pew Research Center study from the Pew-Knight Initiative. We looked across a range of behaviors: political activity, civic involvement, religious attendance and attention to news. What we found was that rather than falling along a single spectrum, U.S. adults sort into four distinct groups that reflect different patterns of participation.
A Year After the One Big Beautiful Bill, Battleground Constituents Sour on Republican Incumbents and the Economy Julie Alderman Boudreau, Navigator Research Polling report on perceptions of leaders in Washington and the economy a year after the One Big Beautiful Bill.
