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Religion and Drinking Alcohol in the U.S.

Highly religious Americans are less likely than others to drink alcohol and are more likely to view drinking as morally unacceptable.

Birth Control Still Tops List of Morally Acceptable Issues

Of 21 personal behaviors and practices measured, Americans agree most widely that birth control is morally acceptable and that extramarital affairs are morally wrong.

Democrats View U.S. Justices Kennedy, Roberts Favorably

Democrats view two Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices -- Anthony Kennedy and John Roberts -- more positively than Republicans do. Republicans are more positive toward another GOP appointee, Antonin Scalia.

Gallup First Polled on Gay Issues in '77. What Has Changed?

Americans today have very different views about LGBT issues than they did in 1977, when Gallup first polled about gays and lesbians.

Gallup Vault: Teen Brides Acceptable to 22% in U.S. in 1937

Eighty years ago, just over half of Americans thought a girl needed to be 18 to marry, but 22% put the number under 18 and 25% over 18.

Evangelicals and Trump

Two-thirds of highly religious white Protestants approve of the job Trump is doing as president, and they are likely to continue barring major policy changes.

NY's Gay Marriage Ruling in Line with Majority View

When same-sex marriages become legal in New York, 30 days after Friday's ruling by the state's legislature, the majority of Americans will likely be applauding or at least not complaining.

American Attitudes and U.S. Population Growth

U.S. population growth has slowed significantly, the result primarily of significant trends related to fertility and immigration.

For Leaders, Mastering Traditional Economics Isn't Enough

People who run businesses, cities, and countries must know things like the relationship between GDP and well-being -- and even how what happens in families affects the way people make economic decisions.

Can Obama Take Advantage of Coming Last?

Here we sit in the interval between the two conventions (as I write this Tuesday), with no sign of a significant change in the horse-race positioning -- yet. There may have been subtle changes in aspects of the campaign that we will pick up in ...