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Law & Criminal Justice
09.21.2011
Americans Support the Death Penalty, At Least in the Abstract
Over the past few months, much (electronic) ink has been spilled over an issue that doesn’t usually get much play: the death penalty.  The planned executions of Duane Buck in Texas and Troy Davis i…
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Politics & Elections
09.21.2011
In 2012, Candidates Could Struggle to Find the Right Tone on Religion
Last week, Rick Perry gave a long and impassioned speech to an audience at Liberty University, delving into the depth of his Christian faith.  Perry spoke openly about his religious convictions and n…
Although it’s technically tomorrow (September 17), today people around the United States will observe Constitution Day, a federal holiday created in 2004 to commemorate the adoption of the U.S.…
A record number of Americans are living below the poverty line, according to a Census Bureau report released on Tuesday, bringing the percentage of impoverished to 15.1%, the highest since 1993.  Ana…
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Politics & Elections
09.15.2011
The NY-09 Election: Disaster for Democrats, or Fuss Over Nothing?
Last Tuesday, Republican Bob Turner’s upset victory over his Democratic opponent David Weprin set the media aflutter over the possibility that Jewish voters, disgruntled with the Democrats’ positi…
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Politics & Elections
09.15.2011
Rick Perry Speaks at Liberty University
Yesterday morning, Texas Governor and current GOP presidential front-runner Rick Perry spoke about his spiritual history in an address to the students of Liberty University, a Christian college in Lyn…
The lead-up to the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks (which, if you have somehow managed to evade the news coverage, is on Sunday) has inspired an impressive array of attempts to gauge p…
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Immigration
09.06.2011
What Does it Mean to Be American?
There’s no question: Americans are committed, at least in theory, to principles of religious freedom, religious tolerance, and separation of church and state.  But putting those ideals into pra…
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Immigration
09.06.2011
Watch the Panel Discussion on PRRI’s New Report at C-SPAN
If you didn’t get a chance to tune in on C-SPAN for this morning’s panel discussion, launching the Public Religion Research Institute’s new survey and report, “What it Means to…
A decade after September 11, 2011, PRRI finds Americans continuing to struggle with how to resolve differences in an increasingly diverse country.
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