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reportOct 18, 2004

The Wealth of Hispanic Households: 1996 to 2002

Hispanic households have less than ten cents for every dollar in wealth owned by White households.
transcriptJul 21, 2004

One Electorate Under God? A Dialogue on Religion and American Politics

10:30am-Noon Washington, D.C. Speakers: Congressman David Price (D-NC) Congressman Mark Souder (R-IN) David Brooks, columnist, The New York Times; Contributing Editor, Newsweek E.J. Dionne, Jr., Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; columnist, Washington Post Writers Group Moderator: Luis Lugo, Director, The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life LUIS LUGO: Good morning, and thank you all […]
transcriptApr 28, 2004

The Ties That Divide: A Conversation on Gay Marriage with Andrew Sullivan and Gerard Bradley

10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Washington, D.C. Speakers: Gerard V. Bradley, professor of law at the University of Notre Dame; filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court on behalf of the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family in Lawrence and Garner v. Texas (2003), the Texas anti-sodomy law case Andrew Sullivan, senior editor […]
transcriptApr 19, 2004

The Veil Controversy: International Perspectives on Religion in Public Life

3:30-5:30 p.m. Washington, D.C. Speakers: E.J. Dionne, Co-Chair, the Pew Forum, and Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution Raja Elhabti, Director of Research, Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights Husain Haqqani, Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Justin Vaisse, Affiliated Scholar, Brookings Center on the U.S. and Europe E.J. DIONNE, JR.: It’s great to […]
transcriptMar 31, 2004

The Pursuit of Perfection: A Conversation on the Ethics of Genetic Engineering

3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Washington, D.C. Featuring: Michael Sandel, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University; member, President’s Council on Bioethics; author of “The Case Against Perfection,” The Atlantic Monthly, April 2004 Responding: Lee M. Silver, Professor at Princeton University in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Woodrow Wilson School […]
transcriptNov 21, 2003

Lifting Up the Poor: A Dialogue on Religion, Poverty and Welfare Reform

10:00am-Noon National Press Club Washington, D.C. Featured Speakers Include: Mary Jo Bane, Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management, Harvard University; Co-Chair, Working Group on Welfare Reform (Clinton Administration) Lawrence M. Mead, Professor of Politics, New York University; Former Visiting Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University Moderators: E.J. Dionne, Jr. , Senior Fellow, Governance […]
reportJun 3, 2003

Chapter 4. Globalization with Few Discontents?

For more than a decade, globalization has been a deeply divisive topic among social activists, intellectuals, business leaders, policy makers and politicians. But the global public is less divided on the subject. To varying degrees, people almost everywhere like globalization. The 38,000 people surveyed in 44 countries by the Pew Global Attitudes Project report that […]
reportMay 14, 2003

Conflicted Views of Affirmative Action

Summary of Findings As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares for what could be a landmark ruling on the issue of racial preferences in college admissions, a new Pew Research Center nationwide survey finds a growing majority of the public supporting the general idea of affirmative action. But the poll results also reflect the public’s complicated […]
reportApr 16, 2003

Bibliography

Austin Free Net. (2002) “Who Uses Community Technology Centers? A Survey of Public Access Computer Users,” Austin, TX, February 2002. Available at http://www.austinfree.net/about/AFNClientSurvey.pdf as of 8/14/02. BECTA (British Educational Communications and Technology Agency). (2001) “The Digital Divide, A Discussion Paper” prepared for the British Department for Education and Employment, for a conference in February 2002. […]
reportJun 3, 2003

Chapter 3. Judging Democracy

Democratization has taken very different paths in the countries surveyed by the Pew Global Attitudes Project. Most Eastern European countries began their transition to democracy with the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But 14 years later, many people still do not completely embrace many aspects of democracy, in part because they associate the […]