On August 24, 2022, President Joe Biden announced a plan to forgive $10,000 in student loan debt for low- and middle-income Americans, and an additional $10,000 in debt forgiveness for students who re…
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Law & Criminal Justice
08.12.2022
Black Americans’ Skepticism Toward the Death Penalty
Recent PRRI polling shows that Black Americans are significantly more skeptical of the death penalty’s fairness with regards to race than other racial groups. According to the PRRI 2022 Social Netwo…
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Abortion & Reproductive Health
07.29.2022
Which Women Most Likely to Favor Abortion Restrictions?
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic decision on June 24, 2022, to reverse the constitutional right of women to obtain an abortion, which had been in place since 1973, the vast majority of wo…
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Abortion & Reproductive Health
07.22.2022
Americans Are Not Really Paying Attention to the Jan. 6 Hearings
As the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol continues to hold public hearings highlighting the role former President Donald Trump played in th…
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LGBTQ
07.22.2022
Who are LGBT Muslims? Challenging Myths and Misnomers
During his 2016 Republican National Convention nomination acceptance speech, former President Donald Trump stated: “Only weeks ago, in Orlando, Florida, 49 wonderful Americans were savagely murdered…
Our current political polarization can feel new, but it has a long cultural history. Two dominant visions of American identity have historically been in tension and at times outright competition with…
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Abortion & Reproductive Health
06.24.2022
Abortion Bans in 13 States Defy Public Opinion
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that overturns a constitutional right for women to obtain an abortion, 13 states have “trig…
How Widespread Are QAnon Beliefs? According to new data from a recently released PRRI survey, the share of Americans who believe in the main tenets of the QAnon conspiracy movement has increased sligh…
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Abortion & Reproductive Health
06.24.2022
Overturning Roe Flies in the Face of American Public Opinion
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, in a case that challenged a Mississippi law banning abortio…
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