Opinion Today

March 27, 2021

Record-High Worry in U.S. About Hunger, Race Relations
Megan Brenan, Gallup
One year after the coronavirus pandemic upended Americans' lives and caused an economic crisis, worry about hunger and homelessness in the country eclipses concerns about 13 other national issues for the first time. The 55% of U.S. adults who say they personally worry "a great deal" about these consequences of poverty marks an eight-percentage-point increase since last year and the highest point in 20 years of measurement.

Attention to COVID-19 news drops, but Democrats still substantially more interested than Republicans
Mark Jurkowitz, Pew Research Center
The percentage of Americans following news of the coronavirus outbreak very closely has slipped to its lowest level since the beginning of the pandemic, but the large partisan gap in attention to that news remains, a new Pew Research Center survey has found.

Partisans move further apart on gun control
Clifford Young, Ipsos
Gun violence is a perennial problem in the…