Short Reads

Americans and Western Europeans largely agree about what is important for democracy, but they put greater emphasis on these principles than Central and Eastern Europeans.

Read key takeaways from a new survey that explores European attitudes three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Many across Western Europe and the U.S. would be willing to accept Muslims as family or as neighbors. Yet there is no consensus on whether Islam fits into these societies.

A decline in U.S. refugee admissions comes at a time when the number of refugees worldwide has reached the highest levels since World War II.

The public is somewhat more positive about the effects of government funding on research and practitioner recommendations.

The circumstances were very different during the Clinton impeachment crisis, and so was U.S. public opinion about the push for impeachment.

About a quarter of teens who identify with a religion and attend public school say they regularly pray before eating lunch at school.

This decade will likely be the first since the one that began in 1850 to break a long-running decline in American household size.

The first full fiscal year of the Trump administration saw large increases in the number of people arrested and criminally prosecuted for immigration offenses.

Amid questions over e-cigarettes and public health, here’s a look at what data shows about vaping in the U.S.