Politics & Policy

Americans and Europeans often have different perspectives on individualism, the role of government, free expression, religion and morality.

Between 1994 and 2005, Republicans’ and Democrats’ views of immigrants tracked one another closely. Beginning around 2006, however, they began to diverge.

In 11 of the 18 conventions since the Civil War that went more than one ballot, the first-ballot leader ended up losing the nomination to someone else.

This change comes after a period in which net migration of Mexicans to the U.S. had fallen to lows not seen since the 1940s.

By design, wealthier Americans pay most of the nation’s total individual income taxes.

A new Pew Research Center study of the ways religion influences the daily lives of Americans finds that people who are highly religious are more engaged with their extended families, more likely to volunteer, more involved in their communities and generally happier with the way things are going in their lives.

The hundreds of exemptions, deductions and other breaks embedded in the tax code will cost the federal government more than $1.3 trillion this fiscal year.

Many countries have laws that ban or limit women from wearing religious attire in public places. By comparison, far fewer countries require women to wear particular types of attire for religious reasons.

Just 35% of voters say that the primaries have been a good way of determining the best- qualified nominees.