About one in four internet-using adults ages 18-29 use blogs or social networking sites as a venue for political or civic involvement.

Roughly six-in-ten online political donations are less than $100.

Just a quarter of Muslims in Indonesia now have confidence in Osama bin Laden; similarly sharp declines are seen elsewhere in the Muslim world.

Roughly six-in-ten Americans say labor unions are necessary to protect working people, an all-time low in Pew Research surveys.

Adults ages 65 and older who live in the West are the most likely to say they don’t feel old.

The partisan split in favorability ratings of the federal government changed dramatically with the change in presidential administrations.

The favorability rating of state governments has fallen to 50%, down from 59% last year.

Over the past year, there has been a 37-point increase in the number of Pakistanis who hold unfavorable opinions of the Taliban and a similarly large increase in negative views of al Qaeda.