A smaller share of older U.S. adults live alone today than in 1990
26% of U.S. adults ages 65 and older lived alone in 2023, the most recent year with available data. That’s down from 29% in 1990.
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Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship draws more disapproval than approval
Overall, 56% of U.S. adults disapprove of Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, while 43% approve.
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Trump Loses Ground on Several Personal Traits as Approval Rating Slips
A majority of Americans (56%) say the overall level of ethics and honesty in the federal government has fallen over the course of Trump’s term.
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How Americans view Trump’s handling of trade and tariffs
Nearly six-in-ten U.S. adults are not confident that Trump can make good decisions about trade policy. Views of trade between the U.S. and China, Canada and Mexico have shifted since 2025.
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2. Number of countries where religious groups were harassed reached new peak level in 2022
In 2022, governments and/or social actors harassed religious groups in 192 countries and territories out of the 198 analyzed – two more than 2021.
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Most U.S. vice presidents in recent decades have sought the presidency, but relatively few have won
Overall, 29 of the 49 people who have served as vice president since the country’s founding have gone on to formally seek a party’s presidential nomination.
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Our favorite data visualizations of 2025
In this post, we’ll highlight a few of our favorite visuals from 2025 and walk through how we made them and what makes them successful.
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Methodology
This report compares synthetic polling results with benchmark surveys administered to human respondents. To develop the “silicon sample,” we first built a custom architecture for administering synthetic surveys. Then, we selected three survey waves from Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP) – Wave 185, Wave 190 and Wave 192 – and replicated them on […]
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How Americans think about corporate and political influence on the news
Roughly half of U.S. adults say news organizations are influenced a great deal by corporations and government interests.
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Engagement in public life is linked with Americans’ views of politics, news
Americans who participate more in public life are more interested in politics – and more likely to have positive feelings about the state of their local communities.