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Donald Trump’s most-cited recent national approval readings cluster around the low 40s: Reuters/Ipsos and other outlets report a 41% approval in early December, while aggregated trackers show net appr...
Claims that “Trump is the 3rd best president in U.S. history” conflict with available expert rankings and public polls: multiple historian surveys place Donald Trump near or at the bottom of president...
Donald Trump’s approval in 2025 is generally lower than the peak early-term approvals enjoyed by Barack Obama and George W. Bush, though short-term averages and trackers show variation by pollster and...
A straightforward, multi-poll read of the sources shows that roughly can be characterized as Trump supporters in 2025 when using conventional metrics such as self-identification with “MAGA,” favorabil...
Donald Trump’s second-term record is presented by the administration and allied outlets as showing economic gains (jobs, tariff revenue, investment pledges) and a flurry of executive actions; the Whit...
Public opinion data show President Donald Trump registering unusually low approval numbers and historic partisan divides compared with modern presidents, but whether that equates to being "the most ha...
Russian combat losses in Ukraine are reported at a scale unprecedented for post‑1945 Russian or Soviet conflicts, but estimates vary sharply depending on definitions and sources. Contemporary analyses...
Donald Trump’s approval ratings in his recent presidency have been unusually low and volatile compared with many recent presidents: multiple trackers and polls in 2025–2025 show his approval generally...
Independent and open-source estimates of Ukrainian killed and wounded from Feb 2022 through 2025 are fragmented and contested: Western analysts and OSINT projects give wide ranges rather than single a...
Donald Trump’s critics point to a mix of legal, ethical, and policy controversies spanning his second term and prior years — from the resurfacing Jeffrey Epstein materials and related lawsuits to swee...
President Trump’s second term has been defined by rapid executive action—roughly 218–220 executive orders through 2025—and an aggressive deregulatory agenda that reached across immigration, environmen...
Public and expert assessments of Donald Trump’s presidency are sharply divided: polls show a plurality or majority of Americans disapprove of his job performance in 2025 (e.g., 58% unfavorable in AP‑N...
Local and state decisions and litigation in 2025 affected various books, but the evidence shows . The situation is fragmented, with policy battles varying by district and state rather than a single fe...
Voters and analysts disagree on whether Donald Trump’s second term (starting Jan 20, 2025) is “better” than his first (2017–2021). Early polls showed higher approval at the start of term two (47%) tha...
Men and women can and do form , but the prevalence, stability, and perceived depth of those friendships vary by gender, socialization, evolutionary pressures, and cultural context; empirical studies a...
Americans as of January 2026 are broadly hostile to how ICE operates: majorities say its tactics are too forceful and a majority disapprove of the agency’s conduct (for example, a YouGov finding showe...
Public criticism of Sir Keir Starmer centers on falling public approval, internal Labour tensions over policy and devolution, and recent controversies around the Budget and media-targeting allegations...
Polling and academic analyses in the provided reporting show that sizable shares of Trump supporters express negative racial attitudes on specific questions — for example, a 2016 Reuters/Ipsos poll fo...
Russia’s publicly reported figures on Ukrainian casualties are consistently and substantially higher than Western intelligence estimates and Ukrainian government confirmations; Moscow has at various t...
The Authoritarian Threat/Threat to Democracy indexes are expert-driven composite measures that track signals of democratic backsliding; Protect Democracy’s Authoritarian Threat Index currently lists t...