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Protestants who identify with "mainline" denominations are distinctly more liberal on moral issues than are Baptists, Pentecostals and those identifying with nondenominational Protestant groups.

Between 2020 and 2024, Americans' confidence in the U.S. judicial system and courts declined by 24 percentage points, one of the largest country-level drops for the courts measured globally since 2006.

In 2015, 34% of Americans are satisfied with U.S. abortion policies, the lowest since 2001. Driven largely by Republicans' lower satisfaction, Americans' satisfaction has been generally lower since 2012 than it was from 2001 to 2008.

Americans' positive rating of the quality of healthcare in the U.S. has fallen to its lowest point in Gallup's trend dating back to 2001.

Fifty-four percent of Americans think the death penalty is morally acceptable, an all-time low in Gallup's 20-year trend.

Gallup and Bentley University find that 41% of U.S. adults favor businesses taking a public stance on current events, down from 48% last year.

Declining support for the death penalty since the early 2000s is largely a result of lower support among Generation Z and millennials.

Approval of Congress is trending upward and is now at its highest point in 2022, due primarily to improved ratings from Democrats.

Half of Americans consider themselves "pro-choice" on abortion, surpassing the 44% of the country identifying as "pro-life." This is the first time since 2008 that "pro-choice" has been the prevailing view by a significant margin.

Just over seven in 10 Americans, 71%, believe doctors should be "allowed by law to end the patient's life by some painless means if the patient and his or her family request it."