Will the second Trump administration come undone by an economic policy based on what the British military historian Lawrence Freedman, describing Vladimir Putin's rationale for invading Ukraine, calls "tendentious history"?
One day before a deadline for Congress to approve a new spending agreement, a majority of voters expect a shutdown of the federal government.
— There are at least three fairly consistent things that we see in midterms compared to presidential elections.
— The turnout of eligible voters in midterms is consistently lower than the turnout in the most recent presidential election.
— Midterm electorates are typically older, whiter, and more educated than presidential electorates.
— The non-presidential party usually wins a higher share of the two-party House vote in the midterm than that party did in the preceding presidential election.
Voters overwhelmingly favor legislation to make English the official language of the United States, following President Donald Trump’s recent executive order.
A little more than a month before the Internal Revenue Service deadline, most Americans have not yet filed their income taxes, and fewer of them expect a refund compared to last year
As President Donald Trump wages trade wars with Canada and China, nearly half of voters believe raising tariffs on imports would hurt America’s economy.
Climate activists have found a new way to force us to pay more for energy.
March is Women’s History Month, and perhaps because of Kamala Harris’s defeat in last year’s election, voters are less confident that women’s leadership will increase – at least in the short term.
Republicans are searching for ways to "pay for" their tax cuts. Democrats want the rich to pay more tax. Here's a solution that should make everyone happy.
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith is suggesting a tax on the $840 billion college endowments. These endowments will soon eclipse $1 trillion in size -- more money than the entire GDP of many countries.
President Donald Trump knows better than to treat the "honeymoon" a president gets in his first months of office as a time to relax. He's fighting as hard now as he did at the height of last year's campaign.
National unemployment was 8.2% in this month’s Rasmussen Reports Real Unemployment update, down almost a point from 9.1% last month and double the 4.1% rate officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics today.
Most voters view Volodymyr Zelenskyy favorably, and only a third blame the Ukrainian president for his recent dispute with President Donald Trump.
Forty-three percent (43%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the country is heading in the right direction, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey for the week ending March 6, 2025.
In surveys last week, this is what America told Rasmussen Reports...
President Donald Trump’s repeated call to “drain the swamp” of bureaucracy in the nation’s capital continues to resonate with voters.
Some thoughts spring to mind after President Donald Trump's 100-minute address to Congress.
Americans overwhelmingly believe that excessive Internet use is a factor in the mental health problems affecting young people.
President Donald Trump has talked of Canada becoming the 51st state, and half of American voters would be OK with it if any of our northern neighbor’s provinces wanted to leave Canada.
— The non-presidential party often picks up House seats in midterms, and as a part of it, that party’s incumbents rarely lose in midterms.
— Over 13 general election midterms held during the last half-century, just an average of 3 non-presidential party House members have lost per midterm.
— Redistricting as well as special election winners losing their subsequent general election inflate that total. Otherwise, a variety of other factors—including scandal, strong challengers, political circumstances, and more—contributed to these relatively rare losses.
Since the irritable, sweatshirt-clad Ukrainian president met with President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance in the Oval Office last Friday, social media has been filled with profile pictures proclaiming, “I stand with Ukraine” and “Slava Ukraini.“
