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reportMay 30, 2006

Politics and the “DotNet” Generation

What’s the new generation coming to? Are today’s young people apathetic and politically inert, as the stereotypes suggest? Are they more reluctant to get involved in politics and public life than generations past? What will American politics be like when they are eventually in charge? The answers are not what you might think. Not only […]
reportMay 30, 2006

New data from the Pew Internet Project

Datasets from our December 2005 and portions of our February-March 2006 survey are available online.
reportMay 28, 2006

Home Broadband Adoption 2006

Adoption of high-speed internet at home grew twice as fast in the year prior to March 2006 than in the same time frame from 2004 to 2005. Middle-income Americans accounted for much of the increase.
reportMay 28, 2006

Home broadband penetration up 40% in past year – adoption going mainstream

Adoption of high-speed internet at home grew twice as fast in the year prior to March 2006 than in the same time frame from 2004 to 2005.
transcriptMay 26, 2006

Federal Court Sends Back Georgia Evolution Sticker Case

Washington, D.C. The Associated Press reports that a federal appeals court on Thursday, May 25, sent back a lower court’s order for a suburban Atlanta school district to remove textbook stickers calling evolution “a theory, not a fact.” The Pew Forum gives quick answers to complex questions raised by the news. Featuring: David Masci, Senior […]
reportMay 26, 2006

Remembering James Carey

James Carey, a founding member of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, passed away May 23 at age 71. Journalist, educator, scholar, Carey may have been the most influential thinker about journalism since Walter Lippmann. Learn more about this extraordinary thinker.
reportMay 24, 2006

Philadelphia Story

The city’s two dailies have been sold to a group of local businessmen for $562 million. PEJ offers a look at the deal’s history, players and impact.
reportMay 23, 2006

Addicted to Gambling

Although a handful of states are moving this year to ban certain types of electronic gambling machines, experts say tax-averse states are growing increasingly dependent on gambling revenues while ignoring the social cost of problem gamblers.
reportMay 23, 2006

Where Terrorism Finds Support in the Muslim World

That May Depend on How You Define It – and Who Are the Targets
reportMay 23, 2006

Gambling: As the Take Rises, So Does Public Concern

A modest backlash in attitudes towards legalized gambling has taken hold among an American public that spends more money on more forms of legal gambling now than at any time in the nation’s history.