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Lee Rainie speaks at a conference on citizen journalism and social media (updated with slides)

Americans like the idea of their government promoting democracy in other nations. But democracy promotion has historically lagged far behind other objectives among the public's long-term foreign policy goals.

The Census Bureau began a gigantic release of 2010 Census data today, publishing detailed race, Hispanic and population totals down to the block level for Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey and Virginia.

More than four-in-ten adults have at least one step relative in their family.

Over the entire course of 2010, just 1% of news coverage was devoted to the Iraq war.

Hispanic voters are nearly three times more prevalent in states that gained congressional seats and Electoral College votes in the 2010 reapportionment than they are in states that lost seats.