Articles

Article

Have perceptions of health changed post-pandemic?

“This must be having some effect on how people think about health, right?” It was spring of 2020, and the “this” in question was a rampant pandemic, lockdowns, and more intensive public...

Article

3 Things to Know about Labor this Labor Day

As we mark a national holiday to celebrate workers, we’re asking: how are Americans thinking about work? Through our WorkShift project, we’ve been conducting in-depth interviews and large,...

Article

3 Things to Know about How Americans are Thinking about Gender in 2024

Last summer, we shared some things to know about how Americans were thinking about gender. We now have a lot more data—including hugely revealing and somewhat surprising demographic...

Article

How understanding mindsets about government can help us advocate for children

Guest post by Moira O’Neil and Nat Kendall-Taylor Few frames have had a swifter, more serious impact than the positioning of “parents’ rights” as a principle that should govern public...

Article

Two Tips for Talking about America’s Rigged Systems

If I asked you whether you think the system is rigged in America, you’d be likely to say “yes”—and you wouldn’t be alone. According to results from our February 2024 Culture Change...

Article

AI Overlords or Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson? Envisioning America’s Future

What is your vision of a better future? What might our country look like in 2050 if things go as well as they possibly could? In January, we asked focus group participants to paint us an...

Article

The Future of Care

Four years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic shined a light on care work and the many ways that care infrastructure—or the lack thereof—plays an important role in all of our lives. From greater...

Article

Disrupting the Anti-‘Woke’ Discourse

Teaching students about race, gender and sexual orientation; training around diversity, equity, and inclusion; discussing the realities of structural racism—all of these activities have been...

Article

Unpacking Americans’ Assumptions about Democracy

Between various high-profile court cases and the realities of a presidential election year fraught with controversy, it feels like we are living through a referendum on democracy in the United...

Article

Is Election Discourse Influencing How Americans Think about Financial Success?

Welcome to On Culture, a new monthly blog from the FrameWorks Institute’s Culture Change Project. Here, we’ll provide regular updates from our ongoing qualitative and quantitative research,...

Article

Americans’ Thinking about Political Division Offers Clues for Communicating about Systemic Reform

Americans see partisanship as a problem. This is no secret. But our cynicism about political parties takes different forms, with very different implications for progressives. Some ways of thinking...

Article

Supreme Distrust: How ‘System-Is-Rigged’ Thinking Implicates the Court

“Stop the steal.” “Tax the rich.” “Drain the swamp.” We have become inured to ideological taglines. But if we pause and reflect on the nature of these catch phrases, it becomes clear...