Opinion Today

June 18, 2021

Senate’s Riot Report Inadequate
Monmouth University Polling Institute
It definitely qualifies as a riot although there is a big partisan split over whether you can call it an insurrection. But few say what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th was a legitimate protest, according to the Monmouth University Poll. The poll also finds there is not overwhelming confidence that the recent Senate investigation was thorough and accurate, but there is only a slight preference for launching an independent commission to examine the incident.

Climate Change in the American Mind: 7 in 10 Americans think global warming is happening
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication
A majority of Americans (57%) understand that global warming is mostly human-caused. By contrast, three in ten (30%) think it is due mostly to natural changes in the environment.

Consumer sentiment reached a new pandemic high this week
Langer Research Assoc…