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    Section 9: Patriotism, Personal Traits, Lifestyles and Demographics

    The Pew Research Center’s June 12 report on political polarization in America found that the right and left have very different ideas about aspects of life beyond day-to day politics, such as the ideal features of a community and the types of people they would welcome into their families. The typology study also demonstrates wide […]

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    Section 5: Political Engagement and Activism

    Political engagement can take on many different forms, including voting, contributing money to a candidate or political group, working or volunteering for a campaign, attending a campaign event or contacting an elected official. But on every measure of engagement, political participation is strongly related to ideology and partisan antipathy; those who hold consistently liberal or […]

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    The More-Hopeful Theses

    This report reflects the responses to the sixth Future of the Internet survey, a canvassing of experts about their attitudes on the likely future impacts of evolving communications networks. Experts’ remarks in the previous five surveys generally expressed enthusiasm about the potential benefits of technological evolution. In this, the 2014 survey, their optimistic responses are […]

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    Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’

    Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms did not provide new outlets for the discussion of the Snowden-NSA revelations. People who thought their social media friends disagreed with them were less likely to discuss the issues in person and online.

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    The Gurus Speak

    Some of the most prominent and respected technology experts and analysts made far-ranging predictions about the Internet of Things. Their answers: Continuous monitoring will be a “powerful element in our lives” It will create a world in which “people are always able to get information about essentially anything they encounter” David Clark, a senior research […]

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    Chapter 2. Crisis of Confidence in the EU Ending?

    The European project – the creation of a single market, the European institutions that are the pillars of that effort and the public’s faith that their collective future is best secured through ever-closer cooperation among nations – has been one of the principal casualties of the euro crisis. Support for European economic integration and the […]

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    Marriage and College

    This links to a FactTank posting about recently released Census Bureau data on the living arrangements of parents by educational attainment.