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In a new Spotlight Analysis, PRRI Public Fellows explore how progressive Black Protestant clergy respond to nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people in the Black church, to better understand the diversity of Black American religious life, social worlds, and theological commitments. Read more:

Black Protestant Clergy Responses to LGBTQ+ Nondiscrimination Protections Drs. Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Darrius Hills, and Shatavia Wynn are 2025-2026 PRRI Public Fellows studying the intersection of politics, religion, LGBTQ rights, and gender. This Spotlight Analysis is the…

Around 50% of Michiganders are white Christians, 25% are religiously unaffiliated, less than two in ten are Christians of color, and 7% are non-Christian, including 2% who are Muslim.
Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed held an interfaith roundtable ahead of Tuesday’s Democratic Primary in Michigan.

As progressives seek to take on inequality, some cite religion as a motivating factor Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed says his Muslim faith shapes his progressive views.

PRRI data shows that in 2021, about four in ten Americans (39%) agreed that the virus was developed intentionally by scientists in a lab.
In a Senate committee hearing on his handling of COVID-19, Republicans accused Dr. Fauci of helping produce the pandemic by funding research on virus mutations.

Fauci repeatedly invokes the Fifth Amendment in a contentious Senate committee hearing Dr. Anthony Fauci will face a contempt of Congress vote in a Senate committee next week after he invoked the Fifth Amendment in a hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a new Spotlight Analysis, PRRI Public Fellow Jelani Ince, Ph.D., examines Americans' attitudes toward protest, from views on speaking out against unfair government treatment to reactions to President Trump's pardons for Jan. 6 defendants. Read more:

Views of Protesting the Government During President Trump’s Tenure Dr. Jelani Ince is a 2025-2026 PRRI Public Fellow focusing on racial justice and white supremacy. He is also an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. Protest has long been…

On Al Jazeera English, PRRI CEO Melissa Deckman, Ph.D., explains that as Texas moves to make Bible study part of every public school's curriculum, PRRI data show that "over the past two decades, the number of Americans who identify as religiously unaffiliated has doubled," with almost four in 10 younger Americans now religiously unaffiliated. Watch the conversation:

Faith at the ballot box | This is America This is America, and this is Texas, where one of the country's most...

65% of Americans support granting asylum to Haitian families, revealing a significant disconnect between the recent Supreme Court ruling that allows the removal of Temporary Protected Status for Haitian migrants and general public sentiment.
Read more in a new Spotlight Analysis:

Americans’ Humanitarian Views on Haitian Migrants Drs. Will McCorkle, Lina-Maria Murillo, and E. Kyle Romero are 2025-2026 PRRI Public Fellows studying the intersection of politics, religion, and immigration and migration. This Spotlight Analysis is…

In a new Spotlight Analysis, PRRI Public Fellow Lina-Maria Murillo, Ph.D., writes about the anti-immigrant rhetoric that the Trump administration is using to frame its argument for more restrictive voting laws, noting that these negative views are not shared by most Americans. Read more:

The SAVE Act, Birthright Citizenship, and Replacement Theory: The Gap Between Rhetoric and Reality Dr. Lina-Maria Murillo is a 2025-2026 PRRI Public Fellow and an associate professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She’s the author of Fighting for…

The 2026 PRRI American Identity Survey finds that two-thirds of Americans hold unfavorable views of Trump’s handling of the war in Iran (66%), compared with 29% of Americans who hold favorable views.
Today, the United States conducted a sixth straight day of military strikes on Iran.

Iran targets military bases as US launches wave of strikes Explosions were heard across Iran overnight, shortly after neighbouring Gulf states began to report attacks.

The majority of Americans (57%) agree that the surge of ICE officers in places like Minnesota is making communities less safe.
Trump is pushing back against a DHS decision to temporarily pause vehicle stops made by ICE, following two ICE-involved shootings this month.

Trump blasts DHS decision to pause immigration traffic stops The president's broadside comes just a day after the Homeland Security Department decided to pause the practice, following two immigration-related shooting deaths.

POLITICO reports that President Donald Trump has ousted the remaining commissioners from a bipartisan federal agency charged with helping state and local officials conduct elections. The 2025 PRRI American Values Survey finds that most Americans agree with the statement “What President Trump is doing to the federal government is an assault on constitutional checks and balances and the rule of law” (54%), compared with 43% who agree with the statement “What President Trump is doing to the federal government is a long-overdue correction of disastrous policies pushed by elites at the expense of ordinary Americans.”

Trump ousts members of bipartisan election commission ahead of midterms The Election Assistance Commission serves as a clearinghouse of election information and distributes grant money to states.