Before recent outbreak, vaping was on the rise in the U.S., especially among young people

An outbreak of lung injuries among e-cigarette users across much of the United States has focused attention on the products’ potential dangers. An analysis of data from surveys conducted before the health warnings finds vaping has increased rapidly among secondary and college students in recent years. And young adults are less likely to believe vaping is harmful to one’s health.

Younger, college-educated black Americans are the most likely to feel the need to ‘code-switch’

Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than their white counterparts to say they feel the need to change the way they express themselves around people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Black college graduates, particularly those under 50, are especially likely to feel this is necessary.

Far more immigration cases are being prosecuted criminally under the Trump administration

The number of federal criminal arrests for immigration offenses surged from 58,031 in fiscal 2017 to 108,667 in fiscal 2018. Similarly, the number of suspects who were criminally prosecuted for such offenses rose 66% during this period.

Among U.S. couples, women do more cooking and grocery shopping than men

More than half of married couples in the United States say sharing household chores is “very important” to a successful marriage. But when it comes to grocery shopping and cooking, most women say they’re the ones usually doing the work, an analysis of a time-use survey found.

One-in-five Americans now listen to audiobooks

Roughly seven-in-ten U.S. adults say they have read a book in the past 12 months in any format, a figure that has remained largely unchanged since 2012. Print books remain the most popular format for reading, though there has been an uptick in the share who listen to audiobooks.

• Who doesn’t read books in America?

United Nations gets mostly positive marks from people around the world

World leaders and representatives from 193 United Nations member states met this week in New York for the 74th session of the General Assembly. Here are five facts about how people around the world view the UN, based on a new 32-nation survey.  

From the archives: How the Watergate crisis eroded public support for Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon won reelection by a landslide in 1972 and began his second term with a lofty 68% Gallup Poll approval rating. But the Watergate scandal quickly took a heavy toll on those ratings, as chronicled in this 2014 post by Andrew Kohut, Pew Research Center’s founding director and former president.

Key facts about refugees to the U.S.