Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Last Friday, in collaboration with European allies, President Biden announced a new $3 billion military assistance package to Ukraine, the lat...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americans-support-aid-ukraine/
Americans are divided on most issues these days. But the Russian invasion of Ukraine might be an exception — sort of. In recent polling, both Democrats and Republicans say they support Ukraine ...
Poll after poll makes it clear: Americans don’t want to go to war with Russia over Ukraine. In an Ipsos/Reuters poll from March 3-4, adults opposed sending troops to Ukraine, 61 percent to 39 p...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-would-it-take-for-americans-to-support-war-against-russia/
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. The ongoing war in Ukraine appears to have Americans in a bind: While roughly half of U.S. adults want to impose some type of punishment on or...
It was long thought that most Americans shrugged their shoulders at foreign policy. Some political scientists posited this was because Americans saw international affairs as distant events that d...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will have far more serious repercussions around the world than on U.S. domestic politics. We at FiveThirtyEight are experts on the latter, though, so here’s a loo...
UPDATE (Feb. 24, 7:52 a.m.): Russia has now launched a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine. (For the latest developments, follow the ABC News live blog.) Russia’s dramatic escalation of the...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-americans-think-about-the-crisis-in-ukraine/
President Biden hasn’t been shy about undoing the legacy of his immediate predecessor. It was a rallying cry of his presidential campaign, and as such it has defined his first eight months in o...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-it-comes-to-china-biden-sounds-a-lot-like-trump/
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. On Monday, we laid out the uncertainty over how the American public would react to the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan. Since then, severa...
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. sarah (Sarah Frostenson, politics editor): In April, President Biden announced that it was time to end ...
Americans’ political views often don’t align neatly with a single party but instead draw on both conservative and liberal positions. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcas...
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Poll(s) of the week Last weekend, President Biden attended the annual gathering of the Group of 7, which discussed different ways to address p...
The American-ordered drone strike that killed one of Iran’s most powerful military leaders, Qassem Soleimani, has triggered retaliation from Iran and put American troops in the Middle East on h...
Late Thursday, the Pentagon announced that the United States killed Iran’s Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, “at the direction of the President,” in an airstrike in Iraq. Iran has since vowed ret...
President Trump’s decision to authorize a drone strike that killed Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani near the Baghdad airport last week has reignited broader questions about both the rol...
There is a story that Stanford University political science professor Jim Fishkin likes to tell about George Gallup, the man who helped popularize public opinion polling in America. After the 193...
Former President Barack Obama substantially increased U.S. troops in Afghanistan early in his tenure, gave military support to rebels to help them depose the leader of Libya and personally ordere...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-2020-democratic-field-is-more-anti-war-than-obama-was/
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Poll of the week On Thursday, Americans both at home and abroad commemorated the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the seaborne invasion of France th...
Every time some high-level member of the Trump administration leaves, the staff at FiveThirtyEight debate whether it’s a big deal — and therefore whether we should cover it. Sometimes the con...
Welcome to FiveThirtyEight’s weekly politics chat. The transcript below has been lightly edited. micah (Micah Cohen, politics editor): For the first time in awhile, we have the full politics ch...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/will-voters-give-trump-credit-for-north-korea/