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    2. Public digital spaces will be improved: Tech can be fixed, governments and corporations can reorient incentives and people can band together to work for reform

    A notable share of the most hopeful respondents to this canvassing declared that in order to serve the public interest and improve digital spaces, the tech industry, government and civil society need to focus on achieving an ethical tech design that values people over profit. They said that this – combined with vastly improved individual […]

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    7. Theories explaining gender differences in religion

    Women’s generally greater level of religiosity has been observed by scholars for decades; it has shown up in surveys going back as far as the 1930s.[34. numoffset=”34″ Gallup Jr., George H. Dec. 17, 2002. “Why Are Women More Religious?” Gallup. ] But not until the 1980s did academics begin a concerted effort to find an explanation […]

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    The News Environment in Sioux City, Iowa

    A 100-mile drive from Omaha, Nebraska, Greater Sioux City—or “Siouxland” as the nearly 125,000 locals know it—straddles the borders of three states. (For a display of all city demographics, click here. Technically speaking, Sioux City’s metropolitan statistical area spans two counties in Iowa, two in Nebraska and one county in South Dakota. In the summer […]

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    Appendix: Descriptions of the Week’s Major Storylines for Each City

    While conducting detailed analysis of the local news for each of the three cities, Pew Research also tracked the major issues that were covered during the weeks examined. In both Denver (June 16-20, 2014) and Macon (June 9-13, 2014), no specific themes dominated the news agenda. In particular, no single storyline accounted for more than […]

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    Section 8: Health Care, Marijuana, Common Core, Other Domestic Issues

    The Affordable Care Act has been one of the most divisive issues of Barack Obama’s presidency. The new typology finds nearly universal opposition to the law on the right. By contrast, support for the law on the left is not nearly as widespread or intense. Overall, more disapprove (53%) than approve (41%) of the health […]

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    Appendix B: Classification of Federal Offenses

    Offense categories defined in this report were created by collapsing the primary offense categories utilized by the U.S. Sentencing Commission. The Commission determines an offender’s primary offense category by examining the offense conviction with the highest statutory maximum.  Below is the description of the primary offense categories used in the analyses for this report. Drugs […]

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