Political Issues

Though crude oil continues to be the nation's single biggest import, energy exports have risen sharply. Exports of some metals and agricultural products also have grown rapidly.

A Pew Research Center experiment found several key areas where Web surveys produced different results than those conducted by phone.

Although Americans and Germans were adversaries in World War II, they became allies during the Cold War and remain strategic trading and military partners today. Our survey, conducted in association with the Bertelsmann Foundation, shows that the relationship faces new challenges.

The public sees a number of contributing factors for the outbreak of violence and unrest in Baltimore last week, and most say it was the right decision to charge some Baltimore police officers in the death of Freddie Gray.

Four decades after the controversial war, the Vietnamese public sees the United States as a helpful ally and even embraces some of the core tenets of capitalism.

Race and community relations have become the focal point of tension in a series of incidents over the past year.

The share of wage and salary workers in the U.S. who belong to labor unions has fallen by about half since 1983. Americans express mixed views on the impact this long-term decline has had on the country.

Many Europeans, especially in the continent's south, hold negative views of immigrants and are concerned about new arrivals from outside the EU.

While most Americans continue to favor the death penalty for murder convictions, far fewer people are receiving death sentences than in years past.