Politics & Policy

Recent surveys have documented how people around the world view the issue of climate change and international responses.

Some Americans clearly long for a more avowedly religious and explicitly Christian country, a March survey finds. However, a clear majority of Americans do not accept these views.

The U.S. murder rate rose 30% between 2019 and 2020 – the largest single-year increase in more than a century.

Here are some recent survey findings about Joe Biden, the pope, the debate over whether the president should receive Communion, and more.

Amid mounting public concern about violent crime in the U.S., Americans’ attitudes about police funding in their own community have shifted.

Dissatisfaction with the functioning of democracy is linked to concerns about the economy, the pandemic and social divisions.

46% of U.S. adults say the area where they live has had an extreme weather event over the past 12 months.

New findings reveal exactly how the United States is more divided than the other 16 advanced economies surveyed.

Wide majorities in most of the 17 advanced economies surveyed say having people of many different backgrounds improves their society, but most also see conflicts between partisan, racial and ethnic groups.

Republican- and Democratic-led states alike already require hundreds of thousands of citizens to be vaccinated against various diseases.