Fear of Online Crime
Americans are deeply worried about criminal activity online, and these concerns may be a factor in the public’s support of the right of the FBI and other law enforcement agencies to intercept criminal suspects’ email.
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Fear Of Online Crime
Americans support FBI interception of criminal suspects’ email and new laws to protect online privacy (Washington, D.C., April 2) — Americans are deeply worried about criminal activity on the Internet, and their revulsion at child pornography is by far their biggest fear. Some 92% of Americans say they are concerned about child pornography on the […]
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Why Americans Aren’t Stirred by Campaign Finance Reform
Ask Americans why they don’t trust government and many will cite their distrust of government’s bosses — the politicians. Ask why they don’t trust the pols and the role of big money in politics is prominently mentioned. Yet campaign finance reform consistently gets a low rating as a national priority when tested against other issues. […]
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Testimony to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy
Testimony to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy By Lee Rainie, Director Pew Internet & American Life Project March 26, 2001 Good afternoon. My name is Lee Rainie and I am the Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a research organization fully funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts […]
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Interdiction and Incarceration Still Top Remedies
Introduction and Summary The nation’s drug war is viewed as a failure by most Americans, and there is scant hope it will ever succeed. Nearly three-quarters of Americans say we are losing the drug war, and just as many say that insatiable demand will perpetuate the nation’s drug habit. Yet this deep sense of futility […]
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Americans Blame Greed and Clueless Executives for the Dot-com Meltdown
(Washington, D.C., March 16) — As the fortunes of Internet companies have fallen in recent months, Americans who have followed these developments believe that the difficulties of dot-coms are attributable to overeager investors looking for quick profits and poor business plans by dot-com entrepreneurs. A smaller number of Americans say that the youth and inexperience […]
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Campaign 2000
How the press covered the campaign, from New Hampshire to the home stretch.
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Media Alert
Senator Lieberman Gives First Major Speech on Religion and Politics Since Campaign to Launch The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life Events of the past year, including the presidential campaign’s focus on religion and politics, attention given to Attorney General Ashcroft’s religious convictions, and President Bush’s establishment of the White House Office of Faith-Based […]
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The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life Created to Engage Policymakers, Religious Leaders, and Journalists
Senator Lieberman Gave First Major Speech on Religion and Politics Since Campaign at Forum Launch “The challenge ahead of us now, if we hope to respond to the public’s yearning for a better balance between faith and freedom, is as much political as it is legal. Those of us who are seeking a suitable space […]