Trust in national and local news has risen since last year across parties and age groups, while trust in social media is virtually unchanged.

Overall, 80% of Americans express this view, up from 75% in September 2025. Another 16% say such criticism keeps political leaders from doing their job.

Estimates of the U.S. Middle Eastern or North African population range from 3.1 to 5.2 million in 2024, depending on how ancestry, race and language are counted.

The U.S. economy is the top issue for voters in the midterm elections, and the cost of gasoline in particular is on people’s minds. Nearly three-quarters of Americans (74%) say they’re very concerned ...

Political ads about data centers on Facebook and Instagram have turned increasingly critical, with 57% opposed and just 3% ...

Polls haven't gotten worse, but fake respondents, synthetic AI surveys and election unknowns make the 2026 midterms uniquely hard to poll.

Americans are generally open to AI handling administrative and medical tasks, but they largely don’t want AI operating without human oversight. About half (47%) say AI will make the relationship ...

Why the 2026 midterms will be uniquely difficult for polls and their consumers. Polls are again under scrutiny, with some rushing in to proclaim their demise. But it isn’t that ...

A weekly digest of the Center’s latest research on religion and public life in the U.S. and around the world · Subscribe ↗ Amid media reports of a religious resurgence among young people in the United ...

Tracking the same adults from 2020 to 2025 shows most Americans' religious affiliation, prayer frequency and service attendance remained steady.

Source: 2026 estimates based on Pew Research Center’s 2026 National Public Opinion Reference Survey (NPORS) conducted Jan. 30 ...

There is no clear evidence in the Center’s surveys that any birth cohort that can be tracked over time has become more ...