Publications

Beyond partisanship -- and behind those healthy economic indicators -- Americans may be seeing something that most economists overlook.

These edicts represent the collective judgment of the American public when asked to assess the moral dimensions of different kinds of behaviors.

The editor of Religion News Service will begin new position in May Mark O’Keefe is joining the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life as associate director, editorial. In this new position, Mark will serve as the Forum’s daily news editor and oversee its website, pewresearch.org/religion. He also will help manage the Forum’s broader outreach […]

This is a discussion of the eight realities of technology and social experience that are shaping the world of today's teens and twenty-somethings.

Public contentment with state of nation dips below 30%

Summary of Findings Public acceptance of homosexuality has increased in a number of ways in recent years, though it remains a deeply divisive issue. Half of Americans (51%) continue to oppose legalizing gay marriage, but this number has declined significantly from 63% in February 2004, when opposition spiked following the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision and […]

Although tolerance is an American ideal and freedom of religion is enshrined in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, American history has often been characterized by inter-religious conflict. Without question, however, much progress has been made in overcoming blatant forms of institutionalized religious discrimination. But historic tensions among American religious groups, not to mention […]

Online news hits a new high-water mark in popularity

By the end of 2005, 50 million Americans got news online on a typical day, a sizable increase since 2002. Much of that growth has been fueled by the rise in home broadband connections over the last four years.