Over half of Google employees polled say the web giant shouldn’t have fired the engineer behind the controversial memo

Former Google engineer James Damore’s memo on diversity generated lots of controversy.  So too, as it turns out, has the web giant’s subsequent decision to fire him. Employees across Silicon Valley are deeply divided about Google’s move, according to a survey conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday by Blind, an anonymous corporate chat app. When Blind asked […]

For Republicans polled on Syria, it’s not about the action but rather whose hand is pulling the trigger

Thomson Reuters Americans are bombarded with polls. It seems that we need to know how everybody feels about everything — possibly so that we know what to believe if we want to be like the majority. Every now and then, however, a nugget of true insight finds its way into such a poll. That was […]

Polled Down A Notch

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s early approval ratings look more like the average Ecuadoran or Guatemalan president’s than a US commander in chief’s, a political science team finds. After reaching a historic low of 35% approval early in his term last month, Trump’s approval rating rose to 40% on Monday following the US missile strike […]