Americans continue to be divided on abortion, but most favor it being legal with at least some restrictions Yesterday, a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks passed through the House with the support of the Republican majority. While the bill is expected to fail in the Senate, new research from YouGov shows ...
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(Week of 6/15/2013) After the Supreme Court handed down its decision last year that the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) was constitutional, many Republicans backed away from support of the Supreme Court – and of its Chief Justice, John Roberts. This week’s Economist/YouGov Poll finds that – at least prior to ...
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(Week of 6/15/2013) Americans have mixed opinions about Edward Snowden, the government contractor who leaked information about government collection of phone and computer records. But the latest Economist/YouGov Poll finds that the public sides with him on a number of items – doubting the government’s honesty on the subject, and ...
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(Week of 6/15/2013) President Barack Obama, responding to the verification by U.S. security agencies that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against its own people, as well as calls for aiding the rebels from individuals as diverse as former President Bill Clinton and Senator John McCain, agreed to send ...
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Americans feel interns should be entitled to at least some compensation, but still think the intern experience is beneficial to interns and oppose government regulation of it Internships, when young people spend a period working for a company to gain work experience and contacts, have become increasingly popular in recent ...
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Americans tend to have negative opinions about China, but by and large are still open to a more cooperative relationship with the country. President Obama recently held a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, discussing a wide range of issues of concern between the two countries, as the relationship between ...
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The American public overwhelmingly supports the Supreme Court's decision to disallow patents on naturally occuring human genes. On Thursday the Supreme Court ruled against biotech company Myriad Genetics, who had attempted to patent naturally occurring human genes as part of a breast cancer testing process developed by the company. While ...
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One Google product has replaced another as number one in the top 20 ranking of the best perceived brands by the LGBT community: YouTube has climbed to number 1 from number 6 last year, taking the place of the Android operating system which has moved down to number 15. Nearly ...
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The U.S. government may find it difficult to convince Americans that Edward Snowden is a criminal. Edward Snowden is the NSA leaker who revealed a range of US and international spying programs, including the PRISM program which has seen the NSA get potentially unlimited access to the customer information of ...
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“World War Z” is not a science-fiction concept to some Americans: 14% of Americans believe there is at least a small chance of a zombie apocalypse actually happening according to the YouGov Omnibus survey taken May 15 through 17, 2013. To many people, the zombies are already here: nearly half ...
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