Pew Research Center Staff

A small majority says torture is rarely or never justified.

Almost half of Americans say they would rather live in a different type of community from the one they’re living in now.

The most frequently used one-word descriptor of President Obama is intelligent.

Even when it’s bad, most Americans want to know the latest on the economy.

Since the 1980s, the number of U.S. wire services and newspapers covering Congress has fallen by 72%.

In 2007, Latinos accounted for 40% of all sentenced federal offenders — triple their share of the U.S. population.

Many of the Catholics who will be visiting their churches today, Ash Wednesday, to have their foreheads marked with ashen crosses, will be over age 65, a reflection of the fact that older Catholics are considerably more likely than their younger co-religionists to say they attend worship services regularly.

‘Buy American’ provisions are supported by two-thirds of the public, and across party lines.