Drew DeSilver

For America’s most ardent liberals and conservatives, polarization begins at home. In what may seem like stereotypes come to life, a new Pew Research Center study on political polarization finds that conservatives would rather live in large houses in small towns and rural areas — ideally among people of the same religious faith — while liberals opt […]

You don’t have to look hard to see evidence of political polarization — just watch cable news, listen to talk radio or follow social-media debates. Indeed, a new Pew Research Center report finds that Americans are more ideologically polarized today than they’ve been in at least two decades. Their representatives in Congress are divided too, and have […]

The U.S. finally has more jobs than it did before the Great Recession, but that's not nearly enough to keep pace with the growing population.

A new Census report reveals interesting regional differences in the characteristics of newly built homes.

Facts and figures about college graduates.

Americans spend less on food than they ever have, and are fatter than they've ever been. Could there be a connection?

Recent presidents and presidential candidates have tended to have elite college educations -- a fact that doesn't appear to bother many Americans.

A year ago today, the Pew Research Center launched Fact Tank, our very own data blog. Why? Because even though Pew Research publishes lots of reports, we still have a lot of data that are relevant to the things people are talking about in the news, online and with their friends, and we wanted to be […]

In 1982, researchers studying the impact of nascent electronic-information services predicted much of what has since become commonplace.

The countries with the highest per-capita alcohol consumption don't, as a rule, have the heaviest drinkers. Those tend to be in countries where alcohol is forbidden or strongly discouraged.