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    Part 5: Witnessing Harassment Online

    Nearly three quarters of internet users—73%—have witnessed online harassment. Offensive name-calling and purposeful embarrassment were the most common types of harassment people witnessed. Respondents were asked if they had witnessed the following types of harassment online: 60% of internet users said they had witnessed someone being called offensive names 53% said they witnessed efforts to […]

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    Part 1: Experiencing Online Harassment

    Forty percent of adult internet users[2. numoffset=”2″ Some 89% of American adults are now internet users.] have personally experienced some variety of online harassment. In this study, online harassment was defined as having had at least one of six incidents personally occur: 27% of internet users have been called offensive names 22% have had someone […]

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    Neither Party Gets Good Marks from Its Base for Handling Illegal Immigration

    Survey Report As the current session of Congress comes to a close without significant action to address illegal immigration, neither Republicans nor Democrats are especially happy with the way their respective parties have dealt with the issue. Just 37% of Republicans and Republican leaners think the GOP is doing a good job representing their views […]

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    Compare 2014 Political Typology Groups

    The 2014 Pew Research Center Political Typology looks beyond “Red vs. Blue” in American politics, sorting voters into cohesive groups, based on their attitudes and values – not their partisan labels. Use this tool to compare the groups on key topics.

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    The Hobby Lobby impact: A Q&A

    The U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing for-profit businesses to opt out of the contraceptive mandate in the new health care law has raised questions about what the ruling might mean for businesses, for future challenges to the contraception mandate, and even for the future of church-state law. We posed these questions to Robert Tuttle, one of the nation’s experts on church-state issues. He is the Berz Research Professor of Law and Religion at the George Washington University.

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    Chapter 2: Religious Switching

    Two-thirds of Hispanics report that their current religion is the same as the one in which they were raised, while about a third now belong to a religion that is different from their childhood faith. Religious switching is slightly more common among U.S.-born Hispanics than among those born outside the U.S. Overall, Catholicism has had […]