U.S. adults ages 65 and older lived alone in 2023, the most recent year with available data. That’s down from 29% in 1990.

Frustration is common across the political spectrum regardless of which party holds the presidency. But the shares of Republicans and Democrats feeling anger and contentment shift dramatically ...

While trust in government has been low for decades, the current measure is one of the lowest in the nearly seven decades since the question was first asked by the National Election Study, and it is ...

In 2016, 51% of U.S. adults said they followed the news all or most of the time, but that share fell to 36% in 2025.

U.S. adults under 30 follow news less closely than any other age group. And they’re more likely to get (and trust) news from ...

Most Black Americans are Christian, though the share who identify as such has fallen since 2007. About three-quarters of Black adults (73%) are Christian, including 65% who are Protestant, 4% who are ...

Yet in the U.S. and many other nations, social trust is far from ubiquitous. While a majority of U.S. adults (55%) say most people can be trusted, a sizable share (44%) say most people can’t be ...

In many countries outside the U.S., those with higher levels of social trust are also more likely to view several international organizations positively.