Overall, 53% of Americans say it is extremely or very important for the U.S. to take an active role in world affairs.

Read about how Americans who were raised Catholic experienced religion as kids, as well as their reasons for staying in or leaving the faith.

So far this year, at least four states have redrawn their congressional districts with the stated goal of advantaging one party or the other in the 2026 midterms. Several others are exploring similar ...

Pew Research Center has been asking survey questions over the past year about Americans’ views and reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. In August, we gave the public a chance to tell us in their own ...

While the worldwide population of all non-Orthodox Christians has virtually quadrupled since 1910, the Orthodox population has merely doubled, from approximately 124 million to 260 million. And as the ...

Americans’ negative feelings about politics today and elected officials extend to their views about the quality of the people who run for office and the reasons why they do. For the most part, these ...

Note: For our more recent in-depth analysis of the middle class, read “The State of the American Middle Class” (May 2024). The middle class, once the economic stratum of a clear majority of American ...

Reflecting the public’s unhappiness with the U.S. political system, there is broad support for a number of significant structural changes to politics: Term limits for members of Congress. An ...

Foreign-born Americans and their descendants have been the main driver of U.S. population growth, as well as of national racial and ethnic change, since passage of the 1965 law that rewrote national ...

Democrats hold advantages in party identification among blacks, Asians, Hispanics, well-educated adults and Millennials. Republicans have leads among whites – particularly white men, those with less ...

In 2022, Chinese American households near the top of the income ladder earned over 19 times as much as Chinese American households near the bottom of the ladder. This gap was the largest across Asian ...

It’s become commonplace among observers of U.S. politics to decry partisan polarization in Congress. Indeed, a Pew Research Center analysis finds that, on average, Democrats and Republicans are ...