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    A Six-Day War: Its Aftermath in American Public Opinion

    by Robert Ruby, Senior Editor, Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life It was famously a six-day war, and in varying guises the conflict has so far lasted another 40 years. For six days, beginning June 5, 1967, Israel battled Egypt, Jordan and Syria. As a result of the fighting, Israel won control of the […]

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    Baker-Hamilton Redux

    Four months after the bipartisan Iraq Study Group proposed a number of new policy options for dealing with the Iraq conflict, these proposals remain broadly popular with the public.

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    Media Give President A Win in War Funding Debate

    From Capitol Hill to a refugee camp in Lebanon to ABC’s investigative team, the Mideast and the war on terror thoroughly dominated the media last week. Meanwhile, a controversy of sorts erupted over how news outlets treated the results of a new survey of Muslim-American attitudes.

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    Baker-Hamilton Redux

    Four months after the bipartisan Iraq Study Group proposed a number of new policy options for dealing with the Iraq conflict, these proposals remain broadly popular with the public. Read full analysis at Pewresearch.org

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    U.S. Catholics Who are Latino

    An estimated one-third (33%) of all Catholics in the United States are now Hispanics; given long-term demographic trends, the Hispanic presence in the nation’s largest single religious denomination is certain to grow.

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    Remembering the Troops

    All of the 50 states but one, Delaware, have lost National Guard troops in the U.S. war on terror. Pennsylvania has suffered the highest number of losses — 31 of a total of 480 Guard deaths since Sept. 11, 2001.

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    Approve Interracial Dating

    That’s the percentage of the U.S. public that now agree that it’s “all right for blacks and whites to date” — up six percentage points from since 2003 and 13 points from a Pew survey conducted 10 years ago.