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    South Korea Pope Francis Favorability Topline

    Survey Topline Survey Methods About the 2014 Spring Pew Global Attitudes Survey Results for the survey are based on telephone interviews conducted under the direction of Princeton Survey Research Associates International. Survey results are based on national samples. For further details on sample designs, see below. The descriptions below show the margin of sampling error […]

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    The Hobby Lobby impact: A Q&A

    The U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing for-profit businesses to opt out of the contraceptive mandate in the new health care law has raised questions about what the ruling might mean for businesses, for future challenges to the contraception mandate, and even for the future of church-state law. We posed these questions to Robert Tuttle, one of the nation’s experts on church-state issues. He is the Berz Research Professor of Law and Religion at the George Washington University.

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    Libertarians Topline

    Survey Topline About the Surveys The data in this report are based on two independent survey administrations with the same randomly selected, nationally representative group of respondents. The first is the center’s largest survey on domestic politics to date: the 2014 Political Polarization and Typology Survey, a telephone survey of just over 10,000 Americans. The […]

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    Predictions for the State of AI and Robotics in 2025

    The sizeable majority of experts surveyed for this report envision major advances in robotics and artificial intelligence in the coming decade. In addition to asking them for their predictions about the job market of the future, we also asked them to weigh in on the following question: To what degree will AI and robotics be […]

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    Chapter 3: Balance of Power: U.S. vs. China

    With a strong economy and steady increases in its military budget, China has seen its stature grow in the eyes of the global public. Majorities or pluralities in most countries now believe China either has surpassed or will in the future surpass the U.S. as the world’s leading superpower.

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    Elaborations: More Expert Responses

    Respondents in this canvassing note that the online environment is going through considerable change as it evolves technologically and politically. Some point out there is a constant swing between distributed activity that is built on citizen enthusiasm about the unhindered sharing of ideas and the type of central control characterized by restrictions on the exchange […]

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    Net Threats

    Tech experts hope the open structure of the Internet will prevail in the coming decade; but they anticipate battles to preserve relatively unhindered connectivity.