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    Bloggers Discuss Barack Obama’s Dating Life

    An article that focused largely on the president’s relationships with some old girlfriends inspired bloggers to weigh in on both Obama and the article last week. On YouTube, protests in Malaysia calling for fair elections dominated the week’s most popular news videos.

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    Public Views of the Divide between Religion and Politics

    Recent comments by presidential candidate Rick Santorum have brought renewed attention to the role of religion in politics. In both 2010 and 2008, narrow majorities said that churches and other houses of worship should keep out of political matters rather than express their views on social and political questions, according to polls by the Pew […]

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    The Future of Higher Education

    Experts expect more-efficient collaborative environments and new grading schemes; they worry about massive online courses, the shift away from on-campus life

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    Chapter 4: Public Attitudes on Intermarriage

    More than four-in-ten Americans (43%) view more intermarriages as a change for the better in our society, while about one-in-ten (11%) say it has been a change for the worse,[13. numoffset=”13″ For a better fit with survey practice, the wording “people of different races marrying each other,” instead of “interracial or interethnic marriages” was used […]

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    Section 1: Barack Obama’s Performance and Image

    Barack Obama enters his fourth year in office with about as many Americans disapproving (48%) as approving (44%) of the job he is doing in office. A notable change over the past year is the president’s standing among independents. Currently, 56% of independents disapprove of the job Obama is doing in office, while just 37% […]

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    Social Media Users Focus on Ron Paul

    Last week, liberal, libertarian and conservative bloggers debated the campaign of presidential candidate Ron Paul following the Iowa caucuses. And on YouTube, Paul supporters offered up their own theory about why a CNN interview suddenly went off the air.

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    Social networking sites and politics

    18% of users have shunned “friends” who have different ideas and 16% have found friends whose beliefs match their own

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    Appendix E: External Advisers and Prison Chaplain Working Group

    EXTERNAL ADVISERS Stacey Bouchet is a co-director of Women In Fatherhood and a senior consultant at the Lewin Group. Her work focuses on children with incarcerated parents, responsible fatherhood and marriage. Anthony Bruno is the chancellor and former president of the American Correctional Chaplains Association and the director of the Religious Services at the Connecticut […]

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    Main Findings: Corporate responsibility: Which road will be taken?

    Respondents’ thoughts The wide range of variability in the tone of the answers to this question can be represented by the following two opposing statements, made by anonymous respondents who filed their answers at the same time on the same day: “The development of the Internet as a complex adaptive system will continue to evolve, […]