Publications

More than 55 years after the Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling striking down school-sponsored prayer, Americans continue to fight over the place of religion in public schools. Questions about religion in the classroom no longer make quite as many headlines as they once did, but the issue remains an important battleground in the broader […]

Getting news from social media is an increasingly common experience; nearly three-in-ten U.S. adults do so often.

This decade will likely be the first since the one that began in 1850 to break a long-running decline in American household size.

Americans express overwhelmingly favorable opinions of federal agencies like the Postal Service, the National Park Service, NASA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) despite historically low levels of public trust in the federal government.

The first full fiscal year of the Trump administration saw large increases in the number of people arrested and criminally prosecuted for immigration offenses.

Amid questions over e-cigarettes and public health, here’s a look at what data shows about vaping in the U.S.

In this 2014 post, we explore how Americans’ views of former president Richard Nixon shifted negative amid the Watergate scandal.

Black and Hispanic adults are more likely than whites to say they feel a need to change the way they talk around people of other races and ethnicities.

Moms are more likely than dads to say they are the primary meal preparers, and they spend more time on average than dads on meal preparation.

As leaders meet for the General Assembly, the United Nations has a mostly positive international image. Read key facts about how people worldwide view the UN.