A bit of good news for the 265 sitting members of Congress who voted to extend the PATRIOT Act: 56 percent of Americans thinks doing just that is just fine. As a majority also did seven years ago.
Pew's new research on the role of women in the household finds that 40 percent of homes with children rely on a mother's income. That's substantial, and probably unexpected. But the data behind that trend — and the response to it — show how employment and gender roles in the United States continue to shift away from the Leave It to Beaver model. Murphy Brown is winning.
When Senator Mark Pryor voted against a gun background check compromise, he was taking a measured political risk. Even as an anti-gun group announces a plan to spend $350,000 on ads criticizing Pryor ahead of a near-certain second vote, a detailed new poll shows why it may have made political sense.
America lied to Pew Research. According to a new poll from the organization, the news stories we paid the most attention to over the last few months were the bombings in Boston and debates on Capitol Hill. According to Google, that's half right.
The odds are good that you didn't know about yesterday's House hearing on climate change or a new video from OFA. The urgency with which scientists look at the issue has still not been translated to Capitol Hill — or to the rest of America.
This Sunday is Easter. If you live in Mississippi, you're probably going to church. If you're Mormon, you're most likely to know what the holiday represents. If you're evangelical, you're most likely to think you'll live to see the next resurrection.
Universal background check legislation is stumbling forward in the U.S. Senate and collapsing in state legislatures, despite still-strong poll numbers. But the conventional wisdom on just how many American gun sales go unchecked might be based on a myth.
Longer lines! Fewer flights! Doomsday delays! So let's not further fan the fire: This chart shows which sectors would be hit hardest by cuts to federal grants to states — amounting to $427.6 billion over the next ten years.
As Democrats plan to put gay marriage on their party platform and people flock to Chick-fil-A in opposition, take a note of these charts from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, which displays how the country's opinions on the topic have morphed over time.
At the beginning of the century, the population in suburbs grew faster than the cities they surrounded. Now, it's reversed.
Though Google claims the search process has been made better with its new social search, people don't want that type of personalized experience while searching, at least according to a new Pew study.
Just as the country gets ready for the awesome quadrennial tradition of choosing the leader of the free world, the new report from Pew Research Center has some bad voting-related news: our voter registrations rolls are't in good shape.
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They like to entertain themselves and ignore others with their phones
Tea Partiers were twice as likely to contact a representative
The president's liberal base becomes more jaded about his jobs record
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