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    Two Americas, One American

    The Differences that Divide Us are Much Smaller than Those that Set Us Apart from the Rest of the World

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    Part 3. Spotlight on “High-Powered” High-Speed Users

    The behavior of current “high-powered” high-speed users may offer a glimpse into the future. In our December 2005 survey, the median broadband user did three online activities on a given day (out of a list of ten) compared to one for the median dial-up user.[6.numoffset=”6″ The average (or mean) number of activities was 2.8 for […]

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    The Revival of Shia Islam

    Washington, D.C. Recent violence between Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim guerrilla group, and Israel; sectarian conflict in Iraq and escalating tensions around Iran’s nuclear ambitions have drawn urgent attention to the resurgence and politicization of Shiite Islam and its relationship to Sunni Islam. The Pew Forum and the Council on Foreign Relations invited Vali Nasr, author […]

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    Religion, Moral Values and the Democratic Party

    Key West, Florida Some of the nation’s leading journalists and distinguished scholars gathered in Key West, Florida, in May 2006 for the Pew Forum’s biannual Faith Angle Conference on religion, politics and public life. Conference speaker William A. Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and formerly a key domestic policy adviser to President […]