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Americans' political predispositions vary significantly by their underlying religious identity, providing an important way to understand the 2020 election.

Very religious Americans across all major religious groups have higher well-being than those who are moderately religious or nonreligious. Jewish Americans have the best overall well-being, despite being the least religious overall.

Protestants are more likely to be positive about Trump than Clinton, while the reverse is true of Catholics, but these views differ significantly when these two groups are divided by race and ethnicity.

U.S. college students are more likely than U.S. adults overall to view First Amendment rights as secure in society today. And while students are inclined to say free speech rights are stronger now than in the past, adults tend to say they are ...

Reviewing Black Americans' preferred term for their race in 1969 and a half-century later, in 2019.

About three-quarters of Americans in 2014 identify with a Christian religion, 6% with a non-Christian religion and 19% have no formal religious identity. More than half of Americans attend religious services monthly or more often.

Just over half of Americans would vote for an atheist (54%) or a Muslim (58%) for president, the least among nine hypothetical candidates. More than nine in 10 would vote for Jewish, Hispanic, Catholic, female, or black candidates.

Kim Ghattas joins the podcast to discuss the multiple crises that people in Lebanon are enduring as the two-year anniversary of one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history approaches.

In northern Nigeria, where the Islamist sect Boko Haram's attacks have killed hundreds, strong majorities believe greater interaction with the West is a benefit, suggesting a lack of support for the group's anti-Western ideology.

Donald Trump's image among Americans has trended slightly up, not down, after his Dec. 7 statement that the U.S. should prevent Muslims from entering the country. Unexpectedly, his image has worsened among Republicans but improved among ...