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    Religion and Secularism: The American Experience

    Professor Wilfred McClay argues that America’s particular brand of secularism, together with some features of Christianity, have produced a unique if imperfect mingling of religion and government in the country’s public life.

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    Conclusion

    Once again, the game of politics—rather than the ideas or even the background of the personalities—has dominated how the press has presented the race for president. What is new in 2008 is how quickly this has begun, nearly a year before the first votes will be cast. The early start to the race, and even […]

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    Geezers Crashing the Facebook Party

    According to local college students, there’s clearly something creepy and weird about the influx of adults “infiltrating” what were once the collegiate walls of Facebook.

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    Online News Audience

    Pew Internet, Pew Research, and McKinsey analysts all come to similar conclusions: the online news space is active and ripe for innovation.

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    Introduction

    The workshop on broadband metrics that is discussed here was held in June 2006, and in light of recent events, was either prescient or instrumental in helping to mobilize wider support for improving the state of our collective public knowledge of broadband networks. In May 2007, Commerce Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), with a number […]

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    The Early Start, the Public and the Press

    This election is unprecedented in terms of its early start and how much early coverage it received. By February 2007, nearly 11 months before any citizen would cast a primary vote or gather for a caucus, the race became one of the biggest stories in the news. This coverage reflected the candidates’ early and heavy […]

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    The Media Sectors

    Did different media cover the campaign differently? Increasingly, PEJ’s New Index finds striking differences in how different media sectors approach the news. The campaign offers yet another case of this. But one feature was consistent across all sectors—the focus on the horse race, polling and strategy. Newspapers—More Enterprise and Emphasis on Governance On the front […]

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    Michael Vick Case Draws Large Audience

    Summary of Findings Michael Vick’s legal troubles attracted a large news audience last week. One-in-four Americans followed the Vick story very closely and 18% said it was the single news story they followed more closely than any other. Overall, the public believes Vick, the Atlanta Falcons quarterback, has been treated fairly by the press, but […]

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    American Evangelicalism: New Leaders, New Faces, New Issues

    Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists gathered in Key West, Fla., in May 2008 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. D. Michael Lindsay, author of Faith in the Halls of Power: How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite, described eight fallacies or misconceptions he held […]