A new YouGov poll finds 64% of Americans want to stop changing the clocks twice a year, whereas only 16% want to keep the current system.

“Americans are more likely than people in other countries surveyed in 2025 to question the morality of their fellow countrymen,” Pew Research reports.

“In nearly all countries surveyed, more people say that others in their country have somewhat or very good morals than say their compatriots display somewhat or very bad levels of morality.”

“The United States is the only place we surveyed where more adults (ages 18 and older) describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad (53%) than as good (47%).”

Gallup: “Government and political leadership remained Americans’ top concern in February, when asked to identify the ‘most important problem facing this country today.’ Immigration emerged as the clear second choice, followed by the economy and inflation.”

New York Times: “The Jackson Hole region has long been a refuge for the rich, but an explosion of new affluence has allowed a growing cadre of extraordinarily wealthy people to dominate both the local economy and Wyoming state politics.”

“Teton County is not merely the richest county in the country, per capita, by far; it is a window into America’s near future, as the country enters a new gilded age, one in which millionaires are turning into billionaires overnight.”

Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “In 41 of the 50 states, every statewide executive office is held by the same party—a striking indicator of the scope of political polarization today. In another six states, one side has a clear edge.”

“This leaves only three states that have a relatively balanced mix of Republican and Democratic statewide officeholders: Arizona, Nevada, and North Carolina.”

Gallup: “The percentage of U.S. adults who anticipate high-quality lives in five years declined to 59.2% in 2025, the lowest level since measurement began nearly two decades ago.”

The Edelman Trust Barometer finds that 70% of respondents across 28 nations now are hesitant or unwilling to trust someone who has different values, information sources, approaches to societal problems, or backgrounds than them.

This majority holds across income levels, gender, age groups, developing and developed markets.

Andrew Trousdale and Erik Larson: “Americans today accumulate hundreds, even thousands, of Facebook ‘friends’ and Instagram followers. Yet 35% report having less than three close friends and 17% report having none. A quarter of Americans lack social and emotional support. We’re supposedly more connected than ever, but according to the Surgeon General we are facing an epidemic of loneliness and isolation.”

“It’s tempting to believe that smartphones and social media were introduced to an ideal society and ruined everything. But the social problems we face today — while linked to contemporary digital technologies — are deeper and more nuanced than that. They originated from 20th century technological and cultural forces that also brought extraordinary benefits.”

The U.S. population could decline this year for the first time in American history, Bloomberg reports.

Scientific American: “The average American born in 2024 is now expected to live to age 79. That life expectancy is more than a half-year longer than it was in 2023 and greater than in any prior year going back to 1900.”

“It was still lower than that of most other developed countries, however.”

“President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration contributed to a year-to-year drop in the nation’s growth rate as the U.S. population reached 341.8 million people in 2025,” the AP reports.

“The 0.5% growth rate for 2025 was a sharp drop from 2024’s almost 1% growth rate, which was the highest since 2001 and was fueled by immigration.”

A new YouGov/Economist survey shows that 71 percent of Americans think the United States is “out of control,” while only 18 percent think the country is “under control.”

Wall Street Journal: “The CBO projects the population growing from 349 million this year to 364 million in 2056, and then starting to shrink. A year ago, the CBO projected the U.S. would reach 372 million people in 30 years; in September it cut that forecast to 367 million.”

“The slowdown reflects the aging population, declining fertility and President Trump’s immigration policies. The U.S. has come to rely on immigration as an important source of growth. Deaths are expected to exceed births in 2030; in September the CBO had projected this could start by 2031.”

A new Gallup Poll finds 24% of Americans satisfied and 74% dissatisfied with the way things are going in the country.

“It’s not a glass ceiling, it’s a marble ceiling.”

— Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), in an interview with USA Today, on a woman becoming president.