Michael Lipka

A declining share of U.S. adults are following the news closely, and audiences are shrinking for several older types of news media.

About three-quarters of Black adults in the United States say they see or hear news coverage about their local community at least sometimes.

Black Americans see a range of problems with how Black people are covered in the news. Almost two-thirds of Black adults (63%) say news about Black people is often more negative than news about other racial and ethnic groups. And while few are optimistic that will change in the foreseeable future, many see ways in which that coverage could be improved.

Sort through the more than 30 jurisdictions that have enacted laws allowing gays and lesbians to marry.

Roughly half of U.S. adults say they have listened to a podcast in the past year, including one-in-five who report listening at least a few times a week. Most podcast listeners say this experience includes hearing news, which they largely expect to be mostly accurate. Large shares of listeners say they turn to podcasts for entertainment, learning or having something to listen to while doing something else.

Evangelical Protestant adults under 40 are more likely than older evangelicals to say climate change is an extremely or very serious problem.

Large majorities in both parties say spending time with family provides them a great deal or quite a bit of meaning and fulfillment.

72% of Americans say taking in civilian refugees should be an important goal for immigration policy in the United States.

Americans increasingly say gender is determined by one’s sex assigned at birth, but they differ by religion on this and other transgender issues.

How do Republicans who support legal abortion and Democrats who oppose it differ from their fellow partisans? One difference involves religion.