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20/12/2024

Need some answers for the holiday dinner table?

Read our latest "Good to Know": How tariffs work.

The idea of tariffs as a tax revenue stream seems easy to understand. Their political consequences are less so.

Expect to hear much more about U.S. tariffs in 2025. So what is a tariff, how is it supposed to work – and who actually pays the costs?

19/12/2024

Who will heal – and rebuild – Syria?

Our data looks at the Syrian organizations that have been helping millions for more than a decade.

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Syria's community-based, faith-based, and other organizations have been helping Syrians for over a decade, our research finds.

18/12/2024

U.S. hostage policy will be quite different under Trump

Freeing hostages is far more complicated than it seems.

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Trump often pressured allies and flattered adversaries to gain the release of U.S. hostages held abroad. Will he change this approach?

17/12/2024

What does Trump’s election mean for European security?

In our latest "Good Chat," experts discuss NATO, the war in Ukraine, nuclear policy, and more.

From NATO defense spending to nuclear deterrence, these are the areas to watch in European security in 2025 and beyond.

16/12/2024

Voters may not blame the president when bad things happen in their communities.

Read from John Sides why the 2024 presidential election wasn’t about local politics.

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Local politics and local issues don't explain Trump's 2024 gains across America, including urban areas. Here's what really happened.

10/12/2024

Good Playlist: Human rights are for all of us ▶️

Here are some songs to inspire action this Human Rights Day — Curated by our friend Dr. Kelebogile Zvobgo!

Here are songs of inspiration and struggle in the fight for democracy, freedom, and human rights around the world.

09/12/2024

The future of transgender rights – and equal protection – hangs on US v Skrmetti.

Here's what we learned from the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in this important case.

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The Supreme Court decision in US v Skrmetti could have broad implications for future discrimination cases of all kinds.

04/12/2024

What just happened in South Korea?

It’s been 4 decades since a declaration of martial law. This one lasted just 6 hours.

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President Yoon’s approval rating hit a record low, at just 19 percent, last week. So what's behind his declaration of martial law?

03/12/2024

Can the president deploy the military inside the United States?

Here are the limits of presidential authority under the Constitution and federal law:

The president-elect's proposed uses of the military on U.S. soil could draw the armed forces into partisan disputes.

02/12/2024

The ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s domestic standing might be boosted by the international legal effort.

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The ICC issued arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, for war crimes in the October 2023 attack on Israel, and Israel's war on Gaza.

29/11/2024

Black women felt energized in 2024 – and frustrated.

Here’s what our focus groups this fall revealed about emotions and politics among this key group of voters.

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Black women of all ages report channeling their feelings of anger and fear into their political behavior in 2024, our survey found.

26/11/2024

Pollsters weighted more in 2024 – and it helped.

Adjustments for education and past vote made national and state polls more accurate.

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Pollsters weighted their survey samples more aggressively than ever before, and polls were more accurate in 2024.

25/11/2024

Americans’ view of masculinity is … pretty progressive?

Don't buy the hype about Trump and the "manosphere" in 2024.

See the data from John Sides: https://goodauthority.org/news/masculinity-trump-america-ufc-progressive-2024/

21/11/2024

The GOP is using bathrooms to target the first trans congresswoman.

A long, ugly history of bathrooms-as-discrimination predates the attack on freshman member of Congress Sarah McBride.

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GOP members of Congress are playing bathroom politics to target newly elected Rep. Sarah McBride. Here's the story.

20/11/2024

Friends, foes, and situationships in U.S. foreign policy.

How scholars and the U.S. public characterize China, the European Union, and India today.

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Will the next Trump presidency share the views of scholars and the general public on U.S. rivals and partners? Here's what our surveys found.

19/11/2024

Democrats invested in traditional campaign tactics. Was it a mistake?

New research finds the ground game is essential in presidential elections – 2024 was no exception.

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In the digital media era, campaign field offices remain essential to organizers, staff, and volunteers in America's presidential elections.

18/11/2024

How to think about the “racial realignment” in U.S. politics.

Shifts in party coalitions don’t portend a shift in party positions.

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Does the GOP now have a multiethnic coalition? It's complicated, because "realignment" means different things to different people.

16/11/2024

What does Trump’s second term mean for immigration?

Expect even more restrictive policies – but Americans may again view immigration more positively.

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Mass deportations and tougher Trump immigration rules could backfire, and actually boost U.S. support for immigration.