With extreme weather events and other disasters on the rise, how well are Americans prepared?
Powerful storms, wildfires, heat waves and other extreme climate-related events are projected to become more common and affect more people.
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Powerful storms, wildfires, heat waves and other extreme climate-related events are projected to become more common and affect more people.
32% of Black adults said they worried every day or almost every day that they might be threatened or attacked because of their race or ethnicity.
Americans’ views on foreign policy priorities differ based on a number of factors, including their attitudes toward international engagement.
Differences within each party on views of foreign policy emerge based on where Americans turn for political news.
Democrats are far more willing to say the U.S. can learn from other countries on major policy issues than Republicans are.
Amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, people around the world are still concerned by the threat of global climate change.
Amid mounting public concern about violent crime in the U.S., Americans’ attitudes about police funding in their own community have shifted.
A majority of U.S. registered voters say climate change will be a very or somewhat important issue when casting their vote for president.
The U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020 – the largest single-year increase in more than a century.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is scheduled to visit the White House this week as she wraps up her final year in office.
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