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Opinion: 4 Lessons About Voting from the 2010 Elections

(Nov. 15) -- Ten years after Bush v. Gore and the spectacle of the nation's most important political contest going into overtime, the country's voting experience this Nov. 2 highlights the changes America has seen since 2000. Here are some key lessons we have learned about election reform -- looking back and forward: New...

The Results Are In: The Media Officially Loves (Covering) Christine O'Donnell

(Nov. 2) -- Has navel-gazing reached an all-time low? Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study of the most news covered candidates. And the result is that everyone in the media is now covering a study of what they already covered. Pretty meta. Seriously though, Christine O'Donnell has the most media...

On Google's Birthday, Apple Takes the Cake

(Sept. 27) -- Happy 12th birthday, Google! Today you are No. 1 in our hearts but No. 2 in our newspapers. Birthday cake doodle aside, it's the more fruit-themed of the two tech companies that really has something to celebrate today. According to a 13-month study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in...

Report: More US Women in Their 40s Never Have Kids

(June 25) -- Nearly one in five American women in her early 40s is childless, a dramatic rise over past decades, according to a report released today. A study by the Pew Research Center found that approximately 18 percent of American women in 2008 had not given birth by the end of their childbearing years, which is...

Stop the Car! More Adult Drivers Texting Than Teens

(June 24) -- Maybe it's the grown-ups who need to be grounded. A recent Pew Internet and American Life Project study shows that 47 percent of adults who use their cell phone to text had done it while driving, making them more likely offenders than teens. Only about a third of 16- and 17-year-old teens who text had done so...