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    America’s Complex Relationship With Guns

    Americans have broad exposure to guns, whether they personally own one or not. About seven-in-ten say they have fired a gun at some point and 42% currently live in a gun-owning household.

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    Public Has Mixed Expectations for New Tax Law

    Survey Report A month after Donald Trump and Congress passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the public has mixed views of the sweeping tax overhaul and its long-term impact. Just as support in Congress for the legislation was divided along party lines, there are wide partisan gaps among the public in expectations for the […]

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    How Does Pew Research Center Measure the Religious Composition of the U.S.? Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

    Question 1: Measuring religious identity How does Pew Research Center measure the religious identity of survey respondents and the religious composition of the U.S.? Answer: Generally, we rely on respondents’ self-identification.  A key question we ask in many surveys is: “What is your present religion, if any? Are you Protestant, Roman Catholic, Mormon, Orthodox such […]

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    From #MAGA to #MeToo: A look at U.S. public opinion in 2017

    In his first year as U.S. president, Donald Trump represented a clear break in style and substance from his predecessor, Barack Obama – and from many of the chief executives who came before them. The businessman-turned-politician upended Washington with unrestrained rhetoric and an “America First” agenda that included renegotiating international trade pacts, withdrawing from a […]

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    Publics Worldwide Unfavorable Toward Putin, Russia

    Around the world, few people trust Putin to do the right thing when it comes to international affairs. While Russia is not seen as particularly threatening in most countries, it is viewed unfavorably in many.

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    En Europe occidentale, l’opinion publique à l’égard des médias d’information est davantage divisée par des opinions populistes que par une idéologie gauche-droite

    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.

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    3. Outlook for 2018, views of political compromise

    The public’s expectations for 2018 are much more positive than they were for 2017. But as been the case for more than a decade, the outlook for the year ahead is divided along partisan lines. Overall, 61% of the public thinks 2018 will be a better year than 2017; last January, 49% said 2017 would […]

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    Sharp Partisan Divisions in Views of National Institutions

    Republicans and Democrats offer starkly different assessments of the impact of several of the nation’s leading institutions – including the news media, colleges and universities and churches and religious organizations.