Publications

The year ahead promises both challenges and opportunities for transatlantic relations. The next 12 months could prove to be consequential for both security and economic ties between Europe and the United States.

In 2012, about three-in-ten Americans 25 and older had completed at least a bachelor’s degree.

The overall U.S. birth rate declined 8% from 2007 to 2010 with the greatest drop among immigrant women.

For decades, the public has sympathized more with Israel than the Palestinians in the Middle East conflict. However, the partisan gap in sympathies, while little changed in recent years, is as large as it has been in more than three decades of polling. Discussion of the U.S.-Israeli relationship is likely to come to the fore […]

The share of new marriages between spouses of a different race or ethnicity from each other increased to 15.1% in 2010.

Overview Barack Obama is viewed as the clear political winner in the fiscal cliff negotiations, but the legislation itself gets only a lukewarm reception from the public: As many disapprove as approve of the new tax legislation, and more say it will have a negative than positive impact on the federal budget deficit, the national […]

Half of the parents of online teens say they have used parental controls to block, filter or monitor teens’ online activities.

The recent gang rape and killing of a young woman in New Delhi – and the subsequent protests – have focused worldwide attention on gender issues in India. A 2010 survey that examined attitudes about gender around the world sheds some light on how public opinion in India compares to the other 21 nations surveyed.

The 113th Congress welcomes the first Buddhist in the Senate and first Hindu in either chamber.