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But Few Favor Military Confrontation

Contrary to recent media reports suggesting that the country’s economic troubles have led to higher levels of church attendance, a Pew Forum analysis of polls by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press finds that while the Dow Jones Industrial Average has shed over half its value since October 2007, there has […]

“Magnet” states are those in which a high share of the adults who live there now moved there from some other state. “Sticky” states are those in which a high share of the adults who were born there live there now.

A majority of Americans say it is important to conduct stem-cell research.

In 2007, Latinos accounted for 40% of all sentenced federal offenders -- triple their share of the U.S. population.

Even when it's bad, most Americans want to know the latest on the economy.

A small majority says torture is rarely or never justified.

Since the 1980s, the number of U.S. wire services and newspapers covering Congress has fallen by 72%.

The most frequently used one-word descriptor of President Obama is intelligent.

Almost half of Americans say they would rather live in a different type of community from the one they're living in now.