Two Years Into the Pandemic, Americans Inch Closer to a New Normal
Americans in 2022 find themselves in an environment that is at once greatly improved and frustratingly familiar.
John Gramlich
Associate Director, Short Reads
John Gramlich is an associate director at Pew Research Center, where he
oversees the organization’s data journalism blog. His research and writing focuses on criminal justice, legal affairs, immigration and other issues. Before joining the Center, he was a researcher at The Pew Charitable Trusts, where he focused on the U.S. correctional system. Earlier in his career, he was a journalist at news organizations including CQ Roll Call, Stateline.org and The Baltimore Sun, covering criminal justice and other subjects. He has a master’s degree in journalism and public affairs from American University and a bachelor’s degree in English from Pennsylvania State University.
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5 facts about the Supreme Court
Here is a roundup of Americans’ views of the court, perceptions of its ideology, the history of confirmations and justices’ backgrounds.
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Republicans’ confidence in K-12 principals has fallen sharply during the pandemic
52% of Republicans say they have a great deal or fair amount of confidence in K-12 public school principals to act in the public’s best interests.
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Black women account for a small fraction of the federal judges who have served to date
Only 70 of the 3,843 people who have ever served as federal judges as of Feb. 1, 2022, have been Black women.
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Recent surge in U.S. drug overdose deaths has hit Black men the hardest
Black men are now on par with American Indian or Alaska Native men as the demographic groups most likely to die from overdoses.
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A look back at Americans’ reactions to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol
A year later, here’s a look back at how Americans saw the events of Jan. 6 and how some partisan divisions grew wider over time.
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U.S. public divided over whether people convicted of crimes spend too much or too little time in prison
Americans are closely divided over whether people convicted of crimes spend too much, too little or about the right amount of time in prison.
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What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border in 7 charts
The U.S. Border Patrol reported more than 1.6 million encounters with migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border in the 2021 fiscal year.
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What we know about the increase in U.S. murders in 2020
The U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020 – the largest single-year increase in more than a century.
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Unvaccinated Americans are at higher risk from COVID-19 but express less concern than vaccinated adults
Unvaccinated Americans are less likely to be concerned about health effects of COVID-19 and to wear masks in businesses all or most of the time.
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