Across the table: Would you share your views of Donald Trump over dinner?

No recent U.S. president has evoked such strong feelings – both positive and negative – as Donald Trump. How would you feel discussing Trump over dinner with a group of people who have opposing views from your own? See how your answers compare with the opinions of Americans in our new interactive.

• Report: Public highly critical of state of political discourse in the U.S.

Tech experts are optimistic about the next 50 years of digital life

Fifty years after the first computer network was connected, most technology experts say digital life will mostly improve human existence over the next five decades. But they warn this will happen only if people embrace reforms that lead to better cooperation, security, basic rights and economic fairness.

• Predictions from experts about the next 50 years of digital life

Democrats far more likely than Republicans to see discrimination against blacks, not whites

Americans see widespread discrimination against groups in the U.S., including Muslims, gays and lesbians, Hispanics, women, Jews, and blacks. But wide partisan gaps exist in the perceptions of discrimination against these groups. For example, Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to say there is a lot or some discrimination against blacks and little or no discrimination against whites.

Share of young adults not working or in school is at a 30-year low in U.S.

The share of young adults who are not working or in school has gradually declined in recent decades. This downward trend partly reflects tight labor markets and falling unemployment, but also more engagement among young women.

Brexit divides the UK, but partisanship and ideology are still key factors

Those in the UK who oppose Brexit and those who support it are at odds in their views of the EU, immigration policy and the future of their country’s culture. On other topics, traditional cleavages along party lines and the left-right ideological spectrum remain.

In U.S., familiarity with religious groups is associated with warmer feelings toward them

Americans who personally know someone in a religious group different from their own – or who have at least some knowledge about that group – are more likely to feel positively about members of that group. Overall, U.S. adults felt most warmly toward Jews, Catholics and mainline Protestants, and the coolest toward Mormons, atheists and Muslims.

• In Western Europe, familiarity with Muslims is linked to positive views of Muslims and Islam

What’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border in 5 charts

Migrant apprehensions at the southwest border reached their highest level in 12 years in fiscal 2019, according to new federal data. And for the first time on record, Mexico was not the single largest country of origin.

Where Europe stands on gay marriage and civil unions

More than 18 years after the Netherlands became the world’s first country to legalize same-sex marriage, Northern Ireland has become the latest jurisdiction to allow gays and lesbians to marry. Same-sex marriage is now legal across the vast majority of Western Europe, with Italy a prominent exception.

• A global snapshot of same-sex marriage
• Fact sheet: Same-sex marriage around the world