Report: 56 Million Americans Depended on Food Banks During the Pandemic

Once only associated with enemy nations and the Great Depression, bread lines have returned to the US, often in form of miles-long traffic jams or car parks filled with hungry drivers.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod
COVID-19 Food Banks

Amid a pandemic that has claimed the lives of over 209,000 Americans and caused widespread economic dislocation, tens of millions have been forced to rely on food banks to survive. A new report from the Pew Research Center found that 17 percent of the 13,200 people they surveyed said they had received food from a food bank or similar organization

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Study: Americans More Prudish, Delusional and Religious Than the Rest of the World

In America, say all the hateful stuff you want and invoke the First Amendment while you’re at it. If you can’t be legally implicated for inciting violence, you’re in the clear.

Kali Holloway
By Kali Holloway
A crowd cheers as Vice President Mike Pence introduces President Donald Trump at the North Side Gymnasium in Elkhart, Ind., Thursday, May 10, 2018, during a campaign rally. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Cultural differences exist across borders, and because monoliths are mostly fantasies, often within them, too. That said, America, in particular, is culturally perplexing, and even confounding, to a lot of the rest of the world. I am not, as Americans are wont to do, laboring under the delusion that people in other places spend all that much time

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Most Americans Blame The Media For Distorting Science

The study found that Americans trust government agencies and science podcasts or radio segments slightly more than general news outlets.

Josh Russell
By Josh Russell
Fox News Bill O'Reilly Climate Change

Nearly three-quarters of American adults think their science news is subject to media distortion, a study published Wednesday by the Pew Research Center says. Though the media took the lion’s share of blame for muddying the waters when it comes to science news, the 91-page report says respondents also voiced scorn for researcher practices and

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Polls: US Is ‘The Greatest Threat To Peace In The World Today’

Perhaps people around the world are noticing that, at least since 2001, the US is wrecking one country after another: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine. Which is next? Maybe Iran? Maybe Russia? Maybe Venezuela? Who knows?

Eric Zuesse
By Eric Zuesse
Marines fast-rope out of an SH-60 Seahawk during an exercise on the USS Bataan at sea, March 29, 2017. (Marine Corps/Brianna Gaudi)

It has happened again: yet another international poll finds that the US is viewed by peoples around the world to be the biggest threat to world peace. But, to start, let’s summarize the first-ever poll that had been done on this, back in 2013, which was the only prior poll on this entire issue, and it was the best-performed such poll: «An

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Poll: Trump’s Election Is Stressing People Out, Especially Women

The poll found that women Democrats are more than three times more likely to have attended a political event or protest in the past eight months than Republican-leaning women.

Kelsey Jukam
By Kelsey Jukam
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pauses during while speaking at a rally in Millington, Tenn. Tough talk about torture is a guaranteed applause line for Donald Trump on the GOP presidential stump. Trump has repeatedly advocated waterboarding, an enhanced interrogation technique that simulates the feeling of drowning. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

American women are paying more attention to politics since Donald Trump was elected, according to a Pew Research Center report released Thursday, and the same percentage of Americans of both sexes said they find it stressful to talk politics with people with whom they disagree. Fifty-eight percent of women said they are paying increased

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New Survey Reveals Trump Has Sunk Public Opinion Of US Abroad To Historic Lows

The survey found that Trump’s first six months in the White House have done more to harm public opinion of the U.S. around the world than George W. Bush’s entire eight-year tenure. 

Jake Johnson
By Jake Johnson
A Greenpeace banner showing U.S. President Donald Trump and the slogan '#TotalLoser, so sad!' is projected onto the facade of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Germany, Friday, June 2, 2017. (AP/Michael Sohn)

President Donald Trump's approval ratings in the United States have been described as "historically low," and according to a new global survey published by Pew Research Center, he is not faring much better overseas. The survey, based on interviews conducted in 37 countries, found that Trump's first six months in the White House have done more to

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