Politics & Policy

Conrad Hackett, associate director for research and senior demographer, discusses why we studied the relationship between religion and happiness, health and civic engagement.

Pew Research Center estimates that 10.7 million unauthorized immigrants, the lowest level in a decade, lived in the U.S. in 2016

Partisans have moved apart not just in political values and approaches to addressing issues, but also on the issues they identify as top priorities.

Here is a look at public opinion on important issues facing the United States, from Americans' views of trade to the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

In many countries, actively religious people are more likely than their less-religious peers to describe themselves as very happy.

People who are active in religious congregations tend to be happier and more civically engaged than either religiously unaffiliated adults or inactive members of religious groups, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of survey data from the United States and more than two dozen other countries.

While partisans agree that political leaders should be honest and ethical, they differ over whether particular leaders display these traits.

Americans have mixed expectations for 2019. As has been the case since Trump’s election, Republicans are more optimistic than Democrats.

While the 115th Congress was more legislatively active than its recent predecessors, the proportion of substantive to ceremonial legislation was much the same.

Only a third of Venezuelans trust their national government. Venezuelans’ evaluations of their national economy have worsened since 2013.