The public is sharply divided by party, even as most support international cooperation and large majorities say it is important that the U.S. is respected around the world.
Americans inhabited different information environments, with wide gaps in how they viewed the election and COVID-19.
The novel coronavirus continues to pose weighty challenges for people around the world.
More Americans also say evangelical Christians, business corporations and the military will lose than gain influence in Washington.
Today, most Black adults say they rely on prayer to help make major decisions, and view opposing racism as essential to their religious faith.
There are wide partisan gaps over most of the 19 items asked about – particularly addressing racial issues and dealing with global climate change.
Most in all three countries are optimistic that U.S. policies and trans-Atlantic relations will improve under his presidency.
68% of the public does not want Donald Trump to remain a major political figure in the future.
Since the establishment of the ATP, the Center has gradually migrated away from telephone polling and toward online survey administration, and since early 2019, the Center has conducted most of its U.S. polling on the ATP. This shift has major implications for the way the Center measures trends in American religion – including those from the Center’s flagship Religious Landscape Studies, which were conducted by phone in 2007 and 2014.
A plurality of experts think sweeping societal change will make life worse for most people. Still, a portion believe things will be better in a ‘tele-everything’ world.
A Pew Research Center survey conducted in the summer of 2020 reveals that more Americans than people in other economically developed countries say the coronavirus outbreak has bolstered their religious faith and the faith of their compatriots.
Roughly four-in-ten Americans have experienced online harassment, with half of this group citing politics as the reason they think they were targeted. Growing shares face more severe online abuse such as sexual harassment or stalking
Donald Trump’s four-year tenure in the White House revealed extraordinary fissures in American society but left little doubt that he is a figure unlike any other in the nation’s history.
A Pew Research Center project that examines the relationship between Americans’ news habits and attitudes, and what they hear, perceive and know about the 2020 U.S. presidential election and COVID-19.
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More Americans also say evangelical Christians, business corporations and the military will lose than gain influence in Washington.
There are wide partisan gaps over most of the 19 items asked about – particularly addressing racial issues and dealing with global climate change.
At least 76 of the voting members of the 117th Congress are foreign born or have at least one parent born in another country.
124 lawmakers today identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander or Native American, a 97% increase over the 107th Congress of 2001-02.
Among all married or cohabiting adults, 53% say things in their marriage or relationship currently are going very well.
Women make up just over a quarter of all members of the 117th Congress – the highest percentage in U.S. history.
A hundred years after the 19th Amendment was ratified, about half of Americans say granting women the right to vote has been the most important milestone in advancing the position of women in the country.
Half of adults who say they lost a job due to the coronavirus outbreak are still unemployed.
In several countries, favorable views of the U.S. are at their lowest point since the Center began polling on this topic two decades ago.
72% of U.S. adults say news organizations do an insufficient job telling their audiences where their money comes from.
About half of U.S. adults lived in middle-income households in 2018, according to our new analysis of government data.
While declining shares give police forces positive marks for their use of force, treatment of racial groups and officer accountability, there is little support for cuts in spending on local policing.
Many Americans think declining trust in the government and in each other makes it harder to solve key problems. They have a wealth of ideas about what’s gone wrong and how to fix it.
Majorities of Americans say the tone of political debate in the country has become more negative, less respectful, less fact-based and less substantive in recent years.
Nearly as many U.S. adults prefer to get local news online as through a TV set. And while Americans prize community connection from their local news providers, they are largely unaware of the financial challenges they face.
At a time of growing stress on democracy around the world, Americans generally agree on democratic ideals and values that are important for the United States.
Americans have broad exposure to guns, whether they personally own one or not. About seven-in-ten say they have fired a gun at some point and 42% currently live in a gun-owning household.
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