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Politics & Society Short Take
June 06, 2022
Last week saw the release of yet another poll suggesting that a majority of U.S. Catholics do indeed hold pro-choice views on abortion.
Few New Yorkers want to arm themselves to ride the subway, just as few teachers want to pack heat in the classroom.(iStock/RonBailey)
Politics & Society Short Take
June 01, 2022
I can assure Texans that very few New Yorkers want to arm themselves to ride the subway, just as few teachers want to pack heat in the classroom.
Politics & Society Short Take
May 24, 2022
The great replacement theory and its undisguised racism have horrified all but the most right-wing political leaders.
Politics & Society Short Take
May 13, 2022
Confusing questions are endemic in public opinion surveys, but the topic of abortion is especially tricky for pollsters.
Politics & Society Media
December 29, 2021
Covid-19, the 2020 election and racial justice remained hot topics in 2021. But the past year also brought new debates within the Catholic Church, including over the Latin Mass.
Members of the Archdiocese of Washington Youth Leadership Team pray during Mass for Life at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington on Jan. 29. (CNS photo/Andrew Biraj, Catholic Standard)
Faith News
November 10, 2021
Nearly three-quarters of young U.S. Catholics say they can be a good Catholic without going to Mass every Sunday, according to a new CARA survey.
Faith Dispatches
November 09, 2021
The survey also found a perception that younger priests are “more theologically conservative or orthodox than their older counterparts.”
Insurrectionists scale the west wall of the the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
Politics & Society Vantage Point
July 02, 2021
A month before this Independence Day, a group of 100 scholars warned about “the recent deterioration of U.S. democracy.” America has been covering this topic from all angles; here are highlights from our archives.
Politics & Society News
May 27, 2021
According to a new P.R.R.I.-I.F.Y.C poll, 15 percent of U.S. adults—including 16 percent of Hispanic Catholics and 11 percent of white Catholics—agree with a core belief of the QAnon movement.
Politics & Society Dispatches
May 14, 2021
In April the Census Bureau estimated that from 2010 to 2020, the U.S. population grew at the slowest rate since the 1930s and at the second-slowest rate in the nation’s history.