public opinion

Many people may think that the COVID-19 outbreak in mainland China is not serious. However, the thousands of leaked documents suggest that this may not be the case. The Chinese ...

Commentary A recent Washington Post article about how polling works reveals something that all insiders know, but that the broader public ...

In the Chinese regime’s clampdown on internet speech, authorities have been targeting the “Big Vs”: social media influencers ...

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has a longstanding custom of compiling "internal references," known as "nei can" in ...

A series of internal government reports have revealed in greater detail how Chinese authorities censor and suppress negative ...

A series of Chinese government documents reveal local authorities’ methods for monitoring and controlling public opinion on the ...

Commentary As House Democrats continue to pursue their impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, one thing has all ...

A sizable majority of Americans said that their opinion on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling is unlikely ...

Commentary Soon after the 2016 election, The Washington Post adopted the slogan “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” Well, turns ...

Commentary With President Donald Trump about to begin his third year in office, it's fitting to discuss what ...

Americans would be more willing to accept a gas tax increase—but only if the extra revenue would improve ...

When citizens have easy and constant access to government information, that’s called government transparency.

A new corps of professional “online opinion specialists” are being trained in how to suppress “reactionary” views on ...

The day of the phone interview with IBM's Josyula R. (JR) Rao, Director of Security Research at the ...