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Roughly four-in-ten Americans have experienced online harassment, with half of this group citing politics as the reason they think they were targeted. Growing shares face more severe online abuse such as sexual harassment or stalking

79% of Americans think social media companies are doing an only fair to poor job when it comes to addressing online harassment or bullying.

Donald Trump leaves the White House having appointed nearly as many appeals court judges in four years as Barack Obama appointed in eight.

In preelection tweets about the U.S., lawmakers abroad focused on how the election will affect bilateral ties and trade.

Black voters were more likely to say the 2020 election was administered very well both nationally and locally.

About half of U.S. adults say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites. Facebook stands out as a regular source of news for about a third of Americans.

More than eight-in-ten U.S. adults say they get news from a smartphone, computer or tablet “often” or “sometimes.”

The charts below allow for comparisons between racial or ethnic groups over time on a range of measures including educational attainment, household income, life expectancy and others. You may select any two groups at a time for comparison.

In studying voters' views of election fraud, we found these views varied by whether people got their news from the Trump campaign.

When it comes to religious affiliation, the 117th U.S. Congress looks similar to the previous Congress but quite different from Americans overall.