December 6th, 20240The 2024 election is over, but the arguments about what it means are continuing. Did Donald Trump and the Republican Party win a mandate to govern as they wish? Did Democrats try too hard to appeal to their political base? Or not hard enough?
But drawing conclusions about the meaning of an election, especially about what it says about...
June 7th, 20240Americans are more dissatisfied with their government than the citizens of any other major democracy, according to an analysis by the Washington Post. And we seem to be growing more skeptical of government every year.
In 1964, when I was first elected to Congress, nearly 80 percent of Americans trusted government to do the right thing...
July 29th, 20230U.S. passport holders have long traveled throughout most of the world without having to worry about visa applications. American travelers currently have visa-free access to 184 destinations worldwide, according to this year’s Henley Passport Index, which ranked the U.S. passport as the eighth most powerful in the world. But that’s...
November 10th, 20170WASHINGTON — Most Americans oppose the use of a lottery system for giving immigrants permanent U.S. residence, but a majority support allowing immigrants to obtain green cards through sponsorship by U.S. employers, according to a Reuters/ Ipsos opinion poll.
The poll, released on Thursday, found that only 25 percent of Americans...
September 3rd, 20172DEARBORN, MI— “Ten percent of Michigan Muslims are physicians.”
This was a myth that the Muslims for American Progress (MAP) project powered by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) was able to debunk.
“We kept hearing that rumor,” said MAP Principal Investigator Rebecca Karam about Muslim physicians in...
