Short Reads

It’s worth remembering that vacancies on the Supreme Court didn’t always devolve into partisan slugfests.

53% of parents of K-12 students say schools in the United States should be providing a mix of in-person and online instruction this winter.

The U.S. Hispanic population reached 62.1 million in 2020, an increase of 23% over the previous decade.

Only 70 of the 3,843 people who have ever served as federal judges as of Feb. 1, 2022, have been Black women.

Here are recent findings about Americans’ views of the diplomatic boycott and how people in the U.S. and around the world see China.

About nine-in-ten U.S. adults (91%) say they have heard little (46%) or nothing at all (45%) about the diplomatic boycott of the Olympics.

66% of women say that in the past year, they have personally thought at least some about big questions; 55% of men report the same.

The number of Black immigrants living in the country reached 4.6 million in 2019, up from roughly 800,000 in 1980.

37% of U.S. adults say they are following news about the coronavirus outbreak very closely. That is up from 31% in March 2021.

Amid tensions over a possible military invasion of Ukraine, Republicans and Democrats are largely in agreement about the threats posed by Russia.