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A close look at reactions to Reagan's first few months in office provides striking parallels with what polls now find about opinions of Obama. And a consideration of the Reagan experience may well give some clues as to what lies ahead for the 44th president.

The Family Online Safety Institute convened the Wireless Online Safety Conference to examine issues around youth, mobile phones and safety. Amanda Lenhart sets the scene with this presentation, sharing 5 years of Pew Internet data on teens and cel...

Lee Rainie discussed the Project’s research about how the internet and cell phones are affecting citizens and how government agencies have new opportunities to plug into citizens’ social networks as they try to solve problems in their lives.

A narrow majority of Americans believes that the United States should re-establish diplomatic relations with Cuba.

Fully 79% of Christians in the U.S. say they believe that Christ will return to Earth someday.

The number of Americans who report that they are members of Protestant denominations now stands at 51%.

About 44% of U.S. adults have switched religious affiliation including dropping any connection to a specific religious tradition.

Nevada is the nation's most "magnetic" state in that fully 86% of its adult residents were born in a different state.

Just 28% of adults born in Alaska still live there, placing it last among the 50 states on this measure of population "stickiness."

On a 12-question news quiz, young adults answered fewer than half correctly on average.