Public contentment with state of nation dips below 30%

The federal debt has escalated in recent years but runaway deficits no longer top the political agenda as in the 1990s, according to a new poll analysis.

Allegations of corruption are fueling political discontent among independents, who are unhappy with Congress in general and their own representatives in particular.

But divisions within both political parties block consensus on eco-friendly alternatives to oil.

Bucking the Global Trend, U.S. Popularity Soared among Indians in ’05

Neither hawks nor doves, America's youth are more willing than their elders to give both war and peace a chance. A new poll analysis finds that generational differences on the use of force confound the stereotypes.

This election year, two heavyweight political trends are poised for collision: GOP unpopularity and the growing power of incumbency.

When President Bush delivered a strong warning against isolationism in his State of the Union address, he was speaking to a recent and dramatic turn in public opinion, indicated by Pew polling.

The Pew Forum analyzes the Supreme Court's January 17 decision that the 1970 Controlled Substances Act (CSA) does not give the U.S. attorney general the authority to prohibit Oregon doctors from prescribing lethal doses of drugs to certain terminally ill patients who want to end their own lives.

Testimony to U.S. House International Relations Committee, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations