Takeaways and surprises from the 2022 midterms

IPR’s River to River discusses abortion rights and 2022 midterms

Democrats want to teach kids sex education. Republicans want to teach them patriotism.

United on Ukraine, but big partisan divisions on most other issues in Grinnell College National Poll

Solid majority believes Supreme Court rulings based more on politics than law

Poll: Half of voters say American democracy under ‘major threat’

More Republicans support opposition to government vaccine mandates than support open carry

The deadliest month of the pandemic in a single state came in New York in April 2020. There, at the pandemic’s outset, a combination of ignorance about the coronavirus and a failure to move quickly enough to combat it led to more than 1 out of every 1,000 residents of the state dying. New York’s […]
The Americans who see democracy most at risk? Republicans.

There are two narratives about what happened in the months surrounding the 2020 presidential election.
New Poll Data Puts Biden At Odds with Most Americans on Student Loan Forgiveness

President Joe Biden’s ambitious new plan to expand access to higher education has a key missing piece: it leaves millions struggling with student loan debt to carry that burden alone.
Why Americans’ support for democratic values may not protect democracy in practice

Former President Trump’s claims that he lost the 2020 election because of voter fraud, and the increasing number of states enacting voter restrictions have led to questions about the state of democracy in the US.