Mark Dolliver's Takes: Rate the Nations

With anti-Americanism on the rise in much of the world, Americans might easily have started to see hostility toward the U.S. as the world’s default condition. Instead, a survey by Quinnipiac University’s Polling Institute finds people here making fine distinctions about other countries’ relations with the U.S. The chart below gives an indication of this. As is typical in such surveys, England and Canada garnered the best scores. (Most polls ask about Great Britain or the United Kingdom, but this one confined itself to England.)