Americans’ confidence in the economy improved after Republicans won big in the 2024 election earlier this month, a new survey found. The Gallup poll, released Tuesday, shows that Americans rank their confidence in the economy as -17,

The latest Yahoo News/YouGov results illustrate the powerful effect that partisanship can have on people’s perception of reality.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said the economy, not racism or misogyny, was the deciding factor in Donald Trump's electoral victory.

"The U.S economy is the envy of the world," said Rutgers Business School finance professor Parul Jain. "Why didn’t that message get through to the electorate?” “There’s always a big lag between objective economic indicators and public opinion ...

There’s a pretty simple way to explain most of what happened in the 2024 presidential election.

In analyzing the loss, Harris’s team also credits the Trump campaign with reaching sporadic voters, especially young men, through new media channels.

It seems like Donald Trump was serious about those tariffs — he's already threatening to put new tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico, and China as soon as he takes office. So what does that mean for Americans and for the economy?

Every four years, we elect a new president to lead our nation. Also referred to as "the leader of the free world," this person is often judged and associated with how the economy is doing when

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to conduct “the largest deportation effort in American history,” no matter the price tag —but the economic costs of such a campaign may be bigger than he has bargained for.

This election cycle showed that our evaluations of external reality are increasingly partisan. Can the media bridge the gap?