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Jonathan Schulman

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Research Associate @pewresearch.org | PhD @polisciatnu.bsky.social

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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In both 2017 and today, few South Koreans view Trump positively. But over that same period, views of the U.S. more generally have dropped roughly 30 points. South Korea isn't alone. People in many countries now evaluate the U.S. and its president as a “package,” rather than separately.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There's a pretty strong correlation between how people around the world view Trump and the U.S. But this hasn't always been the case. During Biden’s presidency, as well as during Trump’s first term, there was a much weaker relationship between views of the U.S. and confidence in its president.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 25/08/2026
awesome study
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 24/08/2026
In our spring survey, 35% of Canadians said the United States is a reliable partner to their country, down from 83% in 2022, the last time we asked this question.
Chart showing decreasing shares see the U.S. as a reliable partner.
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
% of Canadians who say the US is a reliable partner to their country 📉 83% in 2022 35% in 2026 *2026 survey conducted in the spring, before latest tariff dispute with the US
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Trump Gets Negative Reviews Internationally as Fewer Say U.S. Is a Reliable Partner
A 36-country survey finds declining ratings for the U.S. amid rising concerns about its foreign policy and the health of its democracy.
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
South Korea is among the many countries where people are much less likely today than in 2022 to view the United States as a reliable partner to their nation. www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/...
Small multiple line chart showing that in many countries, fewer people view the United States as a reliable partner to their nation today than in 2022. The chart is based on Pew Research Center surveys of adults in various countries.
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
From November 2025: "A majority of Americans (63%) are highly confident that childhood vaccines are effective at preventing serious illness. And majorities say these vaccines protect both vaccinated children (69%) and the wider community (65%)."
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How Do Americans View Childhood Vaccines, Vaccine Research and Policy?
A majority of Americans say childhood vaccines are effective at preventing illness, but slightly fewer are confident that the vaccine schedule is safe.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
For the first time in roughly two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, both Canadians and Mexicans now view China significantly more positively than the U.S. In 🇨🇦: 🇨🇳 44% favorable 🇺🇸 33% favorable In 🇲🇽: 🇨🇳 59% favorable 🇺🇸 40% favorable
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
35% of Canadians say the United States is a reliable partner to their country, down from 83% in 2022. www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/...
Table showing that a declining percentage of people around the world view the United States as a reliable partner to their nation. The table is based on Pew Research Center surveys of adults in various countries.
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 20/07/2026
57 years ago today, the #Apollo11 astronauts landed on the moon. 🌕 Our 2023 survey found that 69% of Americans say it's essential for the U.S. to continue to be a world leader in space exploration. 🚀
Chart showing 69% of Americans say it is essential for U.S. to be a leader in space exploration.
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 18/07/2026
Spain and Argentina are set to compete in the 2026 World Cup final. The two teams were among the top predicted winners in our March survey of U.S. adults. #WorldCup www.pewresearch.org/...
Chart showing Spain, Brazil and Argentina are among top World Cup winner predictions
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Way back in March, Americans saw Spain and Argentina as the favorites for the World Cup. (OK, OK, it was more like a five-way tie when you factor in the margin of error.) www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Bar chart showing Americans' predictions for who will win the World Cup, based on a March 2026 Pew Research Center survey of U.S. adults.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Even when views of the U.S. declined last year, it was still generally rated higher than China. That's no longer the case. In most of the countries we surveyed in this year, China is now seen more positively than the U.S.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
In 31 out of 36 countries surveyed, less than half of people have confidence in Trump to do the right thing regarding world affairs. In 26 of those places, 30% or less have confidence in him.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
What happens when war breaks out in the middle of a survey? That's exactly what happened with our Spring 2026 @pewresearch.org Global Attitudes Survey. And in several countries, views of both the U.S. and the national economy weakened over the course of our fielding period.
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 24/06/2026
Does the U.S. government respect the personal freedoms of the American people? #USA
A dot plot showing if the U.S. government respect the personal freedoms of its people
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
NEW: Our new 36-country survey finds declining ratings for the U.S. amid rising concerns about its foreign policy and the health of its democracy. Overall, a 36-country median of 23% have confidence in Trump, compared to 76% who do not.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Satisfaction with the way democracy is working didn't change much from last year in most of our surveyed countries. But there were four exceptions: In South Korea and Japan, satisfaction skyrocketed after a year filled with significant political change. In the U.S. and Australia, views worsened.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
In a March survey, we asked Americans how likely they are to follow the World Cup. Just 28% said they are at least somewhat likely to watch. Only 14% said they are very or extremely likely to follow the games.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"Polls give the public a voice in politics, business and other areas... If we stop polling people and just assume AI knows the answer, we risk misunderstanding what’s actually happening in the public." www.pewresearch.org?p=303740
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Q&A: Do AI and bogus respondents threaten polling’s future?
Courtney Kennedy, vice president of methods and innovation, answers some common questions about the current polling landscape in the U.S.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Two new posts from us at @pewresearch.org today (links in replies). First, it is generally the case that higher income countries are less likely to say their political system needs big changes. But the U.S. is an exception. This post shows how the U.S. both does and does not stand out on this.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The full dataset from Pew's 2025 Global Attitudes Survey is available for download! A great resource for anyone interested in public opinion that contains rich data from 25 countries. www.pewresearch.org/dataset/spri...
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Spring 2025 Survey Data
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Majorities in both parties agree that Iran is not doing enough to avoid civilian casualties. But Democrats are three times more likely than Republicans to say the U.S. is not doing enough to avoid civilian casualties.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Republicans (47%) are much more likely than Democrats (5%) to say the U.S. military action against Iran will make the Iranian people better off. But within the GOP, there are big age divides. Republicans 65 and older are about twice as likely as those under 30 to say Iranians will be better off.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
New from @pewresearch.org: About a third of Americans have confidence in Trump to make good decisions when it comes to policy toward Iran. That number has declined since he was a candidate for president in 2024, including by 18 points among Republicans.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
"Concomitant with the emergent partisan gap [in trust in science] is a massive perceptual gap among Democrats, who perceive a partisan divide more than double its actual size. Democrats vastly underestimate Republicans’ trust in scientists" academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
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Continuity and Change in Trust in Scientists in the United States: Demographic Stability and Partisan Polarization
Abstract. Americans’ trust in scientists has been stable and high, relative to other political and social institutions, for the last half century (Krause,
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
The most religiously diverse countries 1 Singapore 2 Suriname 3 Taiwan 4 S Korea 9 Australia 10 France 11 Canada 12 UK 16 NZ 20 Germany 24 Japan 32 US 34 Nigeria 78 India 83 Brazil 126 China 160 Egypt 201 Yemen www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Really excited to see our article examining trends in public confidence in scientists over the last five decades in print. Check it out here and let me know your thoughts:
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
An extremely fun post from Pew today: Our graphics team's favorite data visualizations of 2025! Including my personal favorite, a 'beeswarm plot' showing the partisan divide over trust in different news sources, with each dot representing a different news source. pewrsr.ch/4s5jncn
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
While there continues to be much attention paid to the growth of the religiously unaffiliated population in Europe and North America, two-thirds of the world’s 1.9 billion religious “nones” (67%) live in China.
1 country is home to 67% of all religiously unaffiliated people (and 18% of the world's population).
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
2025 striking findings from @pewresearch.org! Highlights include: - Views of the U.S. are down, views of China up in many countries - More Americans say higher education is going in the wrong direction - Young men have grown more critical of sports betting Check it all out here: pewrsr.ch/3KJ56Rz
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Striking findings from 2025
Here’s a look back at 2025 through 12 of our most striking research findings.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
In a new article out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com, we find that members of demographic groups with lower trust in scientists increase their trust when presented with scientists who look like them. Not just on gender and race, but also rurality and class. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...
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Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
New research from the #NetSI team + colleagues shows: groups with historically lower trust—women, Black people, rural and lower-income residents—trust scientists more when they share their identity. Greater representation across communities can boost trust in science. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Americans aren’t following the news as closely as they were a decade ago. And that’s true for older and younger Americans and Republicans and Democrats alike. New today from Pew: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Americans are following the news less closely than they used to
In 2016, 51% of U.S. adults said they followed the news all or most of the time, but that share fell to 36% in 2025.
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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 02/12/2025
Across 25 countries we surveyed earlier this year, trust in others varies widely. But it tends to be higher in high-income countries than in middle-income ones.
A series of blue and green bars on a horizontal chart showing that social trust is higher in wealthier countries and lower in middle-income countries
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
We've previously found that trusting others is associated with things like higher confidence in public school principals and greater life satisfaction. In a new post out today, we find that whether people trust others also relates to how they think about international affairs.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Generally speaking, would you say that most people can or can't be trusted? In our new post out today, we asked this question in 25 countries. 55% of Americans say that most people CAN be trusted. The U.S. is consistent with a wider trend of people in high-income countries being more trusting.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Canadians’ views of the U.S. are among their most negative in our two decades of polling. Majorities of Canadians say that the U.S. is the world’s leading economic power and that the U.S. poses the greatest threat to their country. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Canadians’ opinions of the U.S. and its president are at or near historic lows
About a third of Canadians (34%) have a favorable opinion of the United States today. This is down 20 percentage points since last year.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Following elections in the U.S. and the UK in 2024 where the party in power changed, views of the economy along partisan lines also shifted.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
NEW: The share of Americans saying sports betting is bad for society and bad for sports has grown significantly since we asked three years ago, and it's grown especially among young men. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports
Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.
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Claudia Deane @cdeane.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
For those profs teaching data literacy.... www.pewresearch.org/decoded/2025...
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Understanding error bars in charts
Error bars illustrate the margin of error for a survey estimate by showing how precise that estimate is. Here are some answers to common questions that might help you better understand charts with err...
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
We once again asked people in 25 countries which concerns posed a major threat, minor threat, or no threat at all to their country. Check out the full report here for more on what people see as threats and how that has changed over time. www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/...
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Our latest report finds that most Canadians view the U.S. and Trump negatively. But a growing share view the U.S. as the world’s leading economic power. Canada is the only country of 23 surveyed where more people view the U.S. as the world’s leading economic power today than two years ago.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
In many of the 24 non-U.S. countries we surveyed this year, views of the U.S. have turned significantly more negative, while views of China have turned slightly more positive. Check out the full report here: pewrsr.ch/3TGCU2H
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Views of the U.S. have worsened while opinions of China have improved in many surveyed countries
Across 24 countries, more people have a positive view of the United States than of China.
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Katherine Ognyanova @ognyanova.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
New paper from our team, with @davidlazer.bsky.social @jonathanschulman.bsky.social @royperlis.bsky.social and other smart people who keep off social media.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
We asked people in 25 countries to tell us which country is their most important ally and which is their greatest threat. In Canada and Mexico, people most commonly list the U.S. as both their top ally and biggest threat. In most European countries surveyed, Russia is the top threat named.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
62% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way democracy is working in the U.S. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Public dissatisfaction with democracy continues to outweigh satisfaction across 12 high-income countries that Pew Research Center has surveyed consistently since 2017.

Across that set of countries – Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States – a median of 64% of adults say they are dissatisfied with the way their democracy is working, while a median of 35% are satisfied.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Excited to share my first byline at Pew. Check out our report on satisfaction with democracy in 23 countries here!
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
As NATO leaders meet at The Hague over the coming days, how do people in member states feel about NATO, Russia and Ukraine, Putin and Zelenskyy, and more? New from Pew: pewrsr.ch/4ne8lPx
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NATO Viewed Favorably Across 13 Member Nations
Ahead of the June 2025 NATO summit, international views of Putin and Russia remain negative, while Zelenskyy gets mixed ratings overall.
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Jonathan Schulman @jonathanschulman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
NEW from @pewresearch.org: -Ratings of the United States are down from 2024 in 15 of the 24 countries we surveyed, up in 3 -Most view Trump negatively, but he receives higher marks than at the start of his first term in most countries -In 17 countries, men have more confidence in Trump than women
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