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Today's Question Blog

Who will win the race for president if the economy doesn’t improve by early November?

In June the U.S. economy added only 80,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate remained at 8.2 percent. Many economists expected better numbers. Today’s Question: Who will win the race for president if the economy doesn’t improve by early November?
by Jon Gordon

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What’s your reaction when public figures reveal information about their sexual orientation?

Two public figures, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and R&B singer Frank Ocean, made statements about their sexuality recently. Anderson said he is gay, while Ocean wrote that his first love was a man. Today’s Question: What’s your reaction when public figures reveal information about their sexual orientation?
by Jon Gordon

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How’s your summer been so far?

We're just about halfway through summer, so we're taking this holiday as an occasion to check in. Today's question: How's your summer been so far?
by Molly Bloom

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What’s your attitude toward Congress these days?

Congress, which has been suffering in public approval ratings, has picked up its pace recently and begun passing legislation in a show of bipartisan cooperation. Today’s Question: What’s your attitude toward Congress these days?
by Eric Ringham

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If you’d been asked to weigh freedom of speech against false claims of military honors, how would you have voted?

There was another Supreme Court decision yesterday: The court struck down the Stolen Valor Act, which Congress had passed in 2005. The justices held that people who lie about having received service medals are engaging in protected speech under the First Amendment. Today’s Question: If you’d been asked to weigh freedom of speech against false…
by Eric Ringham

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When you’re among others of your faith, do you feel free to dissent without fear of retribution?

A Catholic elementary school teacher in Moorhead has lost her job for admitting to her superiors that she disagrees with the church on the Minnesota marriage amendment. Today’s Question: When you’re among others of your faith, do you feel free to dissent without fear of retribution?
by Eric Ringham

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What can we do to protect children better?

For the second time in six months, a child inside a house in north Minneapolis has been killed by gunfire. Nizeal Banks, 5, was killed less than three miles from the house where Terrell Mayes Jr., 3, was shot last December. Today’s Question: What can we do to protect children better?
by Eric Ringham

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