Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
The congressional elections are more than four months away, but voter engagement is high when compared with comparable points in previous midterm cycles.
Restrictions on religion increased in 2016 for the second straight year. Nationalist parties and organizations played an increasing role in harassment of religious minorities, especially in Europe.
L’Europe de l’Ouest, berceau du protestantisme et cœur du catholicisme durant la plus grande partie de son histoire, est maintenant l’une des régions les moins religieuses dans le monde. Bien que la vaste majorité des adultes soient baptisés, nombre d’entre eux ne se décrivent pas comme étant chrétiens. Certains disent s’être peu à peu éloignés […]
En Europe occidentale, l’opinion publique concernant les médias d’information est divisée par des tendances populistes, plus que par des positions politiques de gauche et de droite. Telles sont les constatations d’une nouvelle étude du Pew Research Center menée au Danemark, en France, en Allemagne, en Italie, aux Pays-Bas, en Espagne, en Suède et au Royaume-Uni.
The public’s views of Donald Trump across a number of dimensions – including his respect for democratic institutions, trust in what he says and whether he keeps his business interests separate from the decisions he makes as president – tend to have a fairly similar pattern. On most measures (including his overall job rating), roughly […]
Generational differences have long been a factor in U.S. politics. These divisions are now as wide as they have been in decades, with the potential to shape politics well into the future.