As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads across the United States, heightening tensions around vaccine mandates and religious exemption claims, the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) today released Wave 3 of their Religion and the Vaccine Survey, expanding on findings from June 2021 and […] Read more »
Identity Politics in Context
The Wall Street Journal columnist Gerald Seib recently noted that Republicans were gearing up to focus 2022 midterm voters’ attention on the “three I’s” — inflation, immigration and identity politics. … Identity politics generally refers to people evaluating issues through the lens of their association with a specific group. This […] Read more »
Belief in “War on Christmas” Bigger Than Ever Nationally
More Americans believe that there is a “war on Christmas” this holiday season than in years past, with nearly 4 in 10 (37 percent) Americans now saying that politicians are trying to remove the religious elements of the Holiday season, up from 29 percent in 2013. At the same time, […] Read more »
What should U.S. immigration policy be?
Few issues spark debate more than immigration, because people connect it to so many aspects of society: from economics and culture, to law and resources, as well as to what one believes about people who are immigrating in the first place. So considering all that, what do people want U.S. […] Read more »
The Changing Childhood Project
Children and young people are nearly 50 per cent more likely than older people to believe that the world is becoming a better place with each generation, according to a new international survey by UNICEF and Gallup released ahead of World Children’s Day. The survey shows that young people are […] Read more »
Why ‘Evangelical’ Is Becoming Another Word for ‘Republican’
The conventional wisdom about religion in the United States is that the number of people who have no religious affiliation is rising rapidly. … That’s why a recent report from the Pew Research Center came as a huge surprise. Its most shocking revelation was that, between 2016 and 2020, there […] Read more »