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Americans' views on abortion have been stable over the past year, with the public remaining closely divided on the issue: 48% call themselves "pro-choice," and 46% say they are "pro-life."

Less than half of Americans (47%) say they would vote for a qualified presidential candidate who is a socialist -- the same percentage Gallup found in 2015.

An average of one in three adults in 124 countries say their area is a good place for gay people to live. This sentiment ranges widely from as high as 87% in Spain and the Netherlands to as low as 1% in Senegal.

Gallup and Walk Free developed a methodology to estimate the prevalence of modern slavery using an innovative modeling approach.

More LGBT Americans living with a same-sex partner now report being married (45%) than did so in the months prior to the Supreme Court decision to make same-sex marriages legal in all 50 states (38%).

Americans of all ages are now more likely to have no formal religion. This is strongest among millennials, though they grow more religious as they age.

About seven in 10 Americans (71%) support allowing openly transgender men and women to serve in the military.

A majority of Americans (53%) are satisfied with acceptance of gay people in the U.S., a dramatic increase from the past 15 years, when satisfaction was as low as 32%. But satisfaction may be leveling off, as it is unchanged from 2014.

Americans express as much or slightly more confidence in each of the three branches of the federal government than they did in 2014 and 2015, when their confidence hit record or near-record lows.

There are several election and legislative events this week that we can put in the context of American public opinion.