Taylor Orth is a data journalist and public opinion researcher. She received a B.A. from The University of Texas at Austin in 2013 and a Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford in 2020. She is now based in San Antonio, Texas.
New polling from the Economist and YouGov finds some evidence that support for stricter handgun laws has increased, but there remains doubt about whether stricter gun laws would have prevented any of the recent shootings.
In regard to each man's level of cooperation in returning the documents, more say that Biden and Pence have been cooperative than say the same about Trump.
When asked whether the Memphis police were justified in the amount of force they used on Nichols, most Americans (71%) say they were not. Just 8% think they were.
Overall, more Americans think that advancements in AI-text generation will overall be bad for society (36%) than think they will be good (13%), with 23% believing they will be neither good nor bad.
Around one-third of Americans say they have no understanding of the rules of golf (32%), ice hockey (31%), soccer (29%), or boxing (29%).
The results show that while most Americans are aware of the status of the currently protected traits asked about, many assume that other traits are also protected — despite the fact that they are not.
Among people who have visited them, the national parks most likely to be strongly recommended are the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone National Park, and the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
The National Park Service receives significantly higher net ratings than most other government agencies polled within the past year — including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and others.
A new poll finds that one in three Americans express at least some interest in becoming a refugee sponsor through the new program.
Even as Americans' opinions of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have worsened, the country as a whole still views the couple far more favorably than the British do.