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September 17, 2024
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70% Say Founders Would Disagree with How We Currently Follow the Constitution
236 years after the U.S. Constitution was ratified, Americans continue to have high regard for this monumental document. However, most worry about how it’s currently being followed.
By Emily Ekins
September 9, 2024
Blog

Three Themes from Cato’s Swing State Foreign Policy Poll
Foreign policy in the United States is like polo—an elite sport. To change it, changing the elite will have more effect than trying to change mass opinion.
By Justin Logan
September 9, 2024
Blog

New Poll: WI, PA, & MI Voters Believe US Is Too Involved in Foreign Wars and World Affairs, Most Worry WWIII Approaching
Taking the pulse of 1,500 Americans, the data reveals insights regarding presidential candidates Donald Trump and Kamala Harris’s popularity among swing state voters, in-depth analysis of these voters’ foreign policy viewpoints, and surprising thoughts on the greatest threats to US national security.
By Emily Ekins
August 28, 2024
Blog

New Survey: Polarization Is Deep, But Localism Might Be Averting Book “Banning” Battles
The survey indicates that book conflicts are not as prevalent as they might seem from frequent media reports, but differences about what books are appropriate for schools are very real.
By Neal McCluskey
August 16, 2024
Media Highlights TV

David B. Kopel discusses Colorado being called a “political cesspool,” data showing a drop in the unsheltered in Denver despite the increase in homelessness, and Ballot Initiative 89 on PBS 13’s Colorado Inside Out
Featuring David B. Kopel
August 7, 2024
Blog

Poll: 63% of Americans Want to Increase Trade with Other Nations, 75% Worry Tariffs Are Raising Consumer Prices
While Americans believe global trade has helped the country and themselves personally, many perceive problems too.
By Emily Ekins
July 4, 2024
Blog

New Poll: 74% Worry Americans Could Lose Our Freedoms If We’re Not Careful
A new forthcoming Cato Institute national survey finds 76% of Americans have a favorable opinion of the founding of the United States and 59% feel “gratitude” about what the Declaration eventually secured. But Americans fear the freedoms made possible by the American founding are at risk.
By Emily Ekins
May 23, 2024
Blog

New X Poll: Who Said It—a Socialist or a Natcon?
For the next few weeks, Cato’s Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives will post quotes on X from critics of financial markets and ask followers to vote whether they think the quote is from a national conservative or a socialist.
By Norbert Michel
April 19, 2024
DC Journal

School Choice Was a Lifeline We Need to Greatly Extend
The most crucial education problem in the pandemic was not that public schools tended not to be in-person but that they forced one answer on everyone.
By Neal McCluskey and Emily Ekins
March 26, 2024
Survey Reports

Survey: 46 Percent of Private Schools See Enrollment Rise
The ability of private schools to better meet parent demand compared with public schools may help explain rising demand for private school education.
By Neal McCluskey and Emily Ekins
January 2, 2024
Blog

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: A Misleading Study Compares TikTok and Instagram
The authors of the study made two remarkably basic errors that call into question the fundamental utility of the report.
By Paul Matzko
November 21, 2023
Blog

New Polling Suggests the Kids Are Not Alright on Free Speech
Today a majority of students would reject speakers with disfavored views on some of the biggest issues in our society.
By David Inserra
October 25, 2023
Blog

Is Freedom of Expression Dangerous? No, Study Finds More Expression Helps Us Handle Conflict
Words are not violence, and we can have safety and liberty so long as we reject the idea that free expression is dangerous.
By David Inserra
July 21, 2023
Media Highlights TV

Daniel Raisbeck discusses the role of think tanks in public policy and Cato Institute’s research in Latin America on Agenda Azul
Featuring Daniel Raisbeck
June 1, 2023
Blog

Nearly a Third of Gen Z Favors the Government Installing Surveillance Cameras in Homes
Nearly a third of Gen-Z favors the government installing surveillance cameras in people’s homes. If these trends continue the United States may confront a very different privacy lanscape in the future.
By Emily Ekins and Jordan Gygi

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70% Say Founders Would Disagree with How We Currently Follow the Constitution

Three Themes from Cato’s Swing State Foreign Policy Poll

New Poll: WI, PA, & MI Voters Believe US Is Too Involved in Foreign Wars and World Affairs, Most Worry WWIII Approaching

New Survey: Polarization Is Deep, But Localism Might Be Averting Book “Banning” Battles

David B. Kopel discusses Colorado being called a “political cesspool,” data showing a drop in the unsheltered in Denver despite the increase in homelessness, and Ballot Initiative 89 on PBS 13’s Colorado Inside Out

Poll: 63% of Americans Want to Increase Trade with Other Nations, 75% Worry Tariffs Are Raising Consumer Prices

New Poll: 74% Worry Americans Could Lose Our Freedoms If We’re Not Careful

New X Poll: Who Said It—a Socialist or a Natcon?

School Choice Was a Lifeline We Need to Greatly Extend

Survey: 46 Percent of Private Schools See Enrollment Rise

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: A Misleading Study Compares TikTok and Instagram

New Polling Suggests the Kids Are Not Alright on Free Speech

Is Freedom of Expression Dangerous? No, Study Finds More Expression Helps Us Handle Conflict

Daniel Raisbeck discusses the role of think tanks in public policy and Cato Institute’s research in Latin America on Agenda Azul

Nearly a Third of Gen Z Favors the Government Installing Surveillance Cameras in Homes