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A recent study finds broad support for the idea in many countries, including the US.
As the pandemic rages on, nominally free countries are sliding down a path blazed by authoritarian regimes.
The results reflect the impact of increasing publicity about police abuses.
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Sensible social distancing does not require staying in your house.
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The greatest threat to protections for our freedom may be people's fear that people who disagree with them are exercising their rights.
That could be bad news for 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg.
A more active government wins growing approval, but only so long as it doesn’t raise taxes, require tradeoffs, or interfere with private enterprise.
Most respondents, especially millennials, favored viewpoint-based censorship, suppression of "hurtful or offensive" speech in certain contexts, and legal penalties for wayward news organizations.
Many arms of government are unpopular with large swathes of the American population.
People also want more funds for public schools, but support drops when they're informed of current expenditures.
Even a majority of Republicans now tell pollsters that the trade war is costing Americans, and there's no easy justification for targeting European cultural goods.
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According to the survey, three-fifth of voters think pot should be legal for recreational use.
NORML's 2019 scorecard shows that governors, including half a dozen who are pushing for legalization in their states, are beginning to reflect public opinion.
Pew survey data complicate the young/old and left/right framing of this issue.
How it happened and what (if anything) we can learn from such cases.
Advocates for immigrants would do well to emphasize moral arguments more than appeals to the narrow self-interest of native-born Americans.
Many who oppose "political correctness" also support a variety of specific types of censorship.
So long as anything resembling legitimate elections continue to be held, no political coalition will gain a permanent lock on the future.
Youth opinion on firearms is far from monolithic.
A survey by an anti-marijuana group finds that only 16 percent of Americans support the current federal policy.
According to the latest survey, 64 percent of all American adults and 51 percent of Republicans think pot should be legal.
Even if pollsters have whiffed on a bunch of recent elections
A majority of both Republicans and Democrats think the Supreme Court should leave Roe alone.
No matter what faceless spooks assure us, it's far from clear the Russian government directed the leaks of the DNC or John Podesta emails.
Past and present history give no reason to believe there'd be any public safety benefit to such a ban.
According to Gallup, 60 percent of Americans oppose pot prohibition.
Republicans, women, and those ages 45 and older were the most likely to say that selling or paying for sex should be illegal.
The middle class is just as likely to get its way as are the rich, a new paper finds.
For those ages 30-44, it rises to almost 10 percent. But most Americans still think prostitution is "morally wrong."
American perceptions about male and female roles, traits, and behaviors show little change since 1983.
Don't worry, the feds will fix those for you.
Even as the world gets better and better, people continue to stubbornly believe the end is nigh.
