Not only is there evidence of a reawakening of young people to public life, but today's youth are politically distinctive in many ways.

This time, the opposition runs strongly along party lines.

New analysis finds predominantly Republican "red" as well as swing counties significantly more opposed to immigration - both legal and illegal - than are predominantly Democratic "blue" counties, where immigrants are much more populous.

In an excerpt from their new book, America Against the World, Pew Research Center President Andrew Kohut and journalist Bruce Stokes examine the major factors, real and imagined, that contribute to the global rise in anti-Americanism.

Although President Bush's approval rating has declined as much among white evangelicals as among the public as a whole, so far evangelicals don't seem likely to abandon the GOP this fall.

African Americans are often more sympathetic to immigrants - except when it comes to jobs.

Church leaders and members don't always agree about undocumented migrants.

Many Americans do not fit well within into either the conservative or liberal camps. Instead they find a home in one of two other U.S. political traditions, libertarian and populist, or defy attempts to pigeon-hole them.

Forty years after a Time cover famously asked, "Is God Dead?" polls find the Almighty thriving in the nation's collective consciousness.

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