Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand how the public views socialism and capitalism. For this analysis, we surveyed 7,647 adults from Aug. 1-14, 2022. The survey was primarily ...

Americans see politically motivated violence as on the rise in the United States. How we did this. Pew Research Center ...

Data centers accounted for 4% of total U.S. electricity use in 2024. Their energy demand is expected to more than double by 2030.

In 2023, over 1.8 million Americans divorced. Additionally, a third of Americans who have ever been married have also experienced divorce.

Americans' views of religion's role in society have grown more positive in recent years. But many feel their religious beliefs conflict with the mainstream.

Most adults across 25 countries are aware of AI, and people are generally more concerned than excited about its effects on daily life.

In both parties, the share that say the higher education system is going in the wrong direction has gone up by at least 10 percentage points since 2020.

Many people around the world have major concerns about made-up news and information. A median of more than eight-in-ten adults across 35 countries surveyed say it is a big problem in their country, ...

A median of 34% of adults in 25 countries have heard a lot about AI, with frequent internet users and younger people among the likeliest to say so.

A median of 34% of adults in 25 countries are mainly concerned about AI's growing use in daily life, while a median of 16% are mainly excited.

Meanwhile, roughly four-in-ten Americans say the news they get makes them feel angry (42%) or sad (38%) often or extremely often. And about a quarter say it makes them feel scared (27%) or confused ...

The U.S. House of Representatives has one voting member for every 747,000 or so Americans. That’s by far the highest population-to-representative ratio among a peer group of industrialized democracies ...