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No Kings? Young Adults’ Perceptions of American Authoritarianism
By Devin GreenMay 12th, 2026 Since the second inauguration of Donald Trump, the United States has witnessed the three largest single-day protest events in its history. Millions of people have taken to the streets to denounce ICE raids and racial profiling, the erosion of social safety protections, voter suppression, and other authoritarian actions under the
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Affordability as Democracy: What Young Adults Want
By Cathy J. CohenApril 14th, 2026 To say that the term affordability has become the buzzword of this political season would be an understatement. The growing prominence of the term “affordability” is evident in the press, among politicians, and even in the public’s Google searches. The political success of focusing on affordability became evident in recent Democratic electoral
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Many U.S. Young Adults Do Not Trust Political Institutions
By Justin ZimmermanMarch 11th, 2026 Trust in the federal government is at its lowest point in United States’ history, and this distrust is a defining characteristic of the political lives of young people. Perceptions of government corruption, dissatisfaction with the major political parties, the deterioration of social services such as food stamps, and unprecedented overreach
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What Young People Are Saying About the ICE Surge
By Diane WongFebruary 10th, 2026 Over the past several weeks, Minneapolis has become a city under siege as federal immigration enforcement has dramatically expanded its presence in the region. The Department of Homeland Security has deployed thousands of federal agents to Minneapolis, including from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection, under
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Redefining Safety and Harm For A New Generation
By Jenn JacksonJanuary 13th, 2026 The Abolish Patriarchal Violence (APV) Study is a national multi-method research project of Black people’s experiences with both violence and safety in their homes, at work, and in their communities. This project began as a 100-year visioning exercise with the goal that in five generations from now, if you were
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2025 Good Governance Survey (November 2025 Survey)
About the Survey The GenForward November 2025 Survey is a project of Professor Cathy J. Cohen at the University of Chicago. Interviews were conducted with a representative sample from GenForwardSM, a nationally representative survey panel of adults 18-42 recruited and administered by NORC at the University of Chicago. The toplines for this survey include survey
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Gen Z’s Perspective on Immigration Policy and ICE
By Diane WongOctober 17th, 2025 For the first time in over half a century, the U.S. immigrant population has declined by more than a million people since Trump took office in January. Between January and June of this year, the foreign-born population fell from 53.3 million to 51.9 million, a decline that coincides with an
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Reflecting on young Americans’ beliefs four years after Jan 6th
By Jenn JacksonJanuary 23, 2025 On January 6th, 2021, people across the United States watched as Then-President Donald Trump incited mob violence on the US Capitol which the FBI has now classified as “domestic terrorism.” In response to his efforts to challenge his loss in the 2020 presidential election, Trump stood on the Ellipse, near