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2007

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    Ahmadinejad Visit Draws Large Audience

    Summary of Findings Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the U.S. drew a large news audience last week. Aside from the Iraq war it was the most closely followed news story, with 23% of the public following the story very closely, and 14% listing it as the single news story they followed most closely. Ahmadinejad’s […]

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    World Publics Welcome Global Trade — But Not Immigration

    The publics of the world broadly embrace key tenets of economic globalization but fear the disruptions and downsides of participating in the global economy. In rich countries as well as poor ones, most people endorse free trade, multinational corporations and free markets. However, the latest Pew Global Attitudes survey of more than 45,000 people finds they are concerned about inequality, threats to their culture, threats to the environment and the threats posed by immigration. And there are signs that enthusiasm for economic globalization is waning in the West.

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    Talk Hosts Find Themselves on the Firing Line

    Yes, newsmakers like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton were major topics in talk media last week. But it was two of the hosts themselves, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly, who inspired some of the most passion.

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    America’s “Have-Nots”

    That’s the percentage of the public who say they are probably among the “have-nots” in society rather than the “haves” — twice the number who said so two decades ago.

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    Contented Mexicans

    That’s the share of the Mexican public who rate their current lives at 7 or better on a scale of zero to 10 — the highest proportion of any of the 47 countries covered in the latest Pew Global Attitudes survey.

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    Online Hobbyists

    That’s the very large share of U.S. online adults who use the internet to pursue hobbies from genealogy to gambling.

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    A Progressive Argument Against the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide

    The debate over physician-assisted suicide is often portrayed as a battle between social or religious conservatives who oppose the practice and liberals or progressives who support it. But not everyone fits neatly into this paradigm. For instance, Dr. Robert P. Jones, who calls himself a progressive, has just written a book urging liberal supporters of […]