Short Reads

Among U.S. adults, different age cohorts have markedly different political profiles, but the relationship is considerably more complex than young people leaning liberal and older people being more conservative.

Two of every five U.S. households have no landline phones, but the growth rate of cord-cutting slowed last year.

The Supreme Court's long-awaited decision in the Hobby Lobby case says "closely held" corporations can have religious rights that need to be respected. What was it talking about?

As Republicans and Democrats gear up for midterm elections this November, there’s one group of Americans - that we call political Bystanders - that is paying very little, if any, attention to the whole ordeal.

Supreme Court justices vote together more often than they don't, but some of that agreement may be surface-only.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing for-profit businesses to opt out of the contraceptive mandate in the new health care law has raised questions about what the ruling might mean for businesses, for future challenges to the contraception mandate, and even for the future of church-state law. We posed these questions to Robert Tuttle, one of the nation’s experts on church-state issues. He is the Berz Research Professor of Law and Religion at the George Washington University.

The controversy over what the Facebook researchers did may be overshadowing other important discussions, specifically conversations about what they really found—not much, actually—and the right and wrong way to think about and report findings based on statistical analyses of Big Data.