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After President George W. Bush's re-election, the jokes that abounded about U.S. Democrats fleeing their homeland to join their more liberal-minded neighbors in Canada were just another indicator of the election's contentiousness. But some ...

The news media have had a field day with moralist William J. Bennett's recent admission -- and subsequent renunciation -- of high-stakes gambling, pointing to the apparent contradiction between Bennett's behavior and words. But Gallup's annual ...

In recent months, some American teens have found out the hard way that that it is illegal to share music on the Internet. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) did not actually file the first 261 lawsuits against music "pirates" ...

Americans' tolerance for gay rights is at the high end of the range recorded over the past three decades. There is still considerable public opposition to complete equality for gays, particularly with respect to marriage. However, after several ...

The boundaries of moral propriety have expanded a bit in the last year, as more Americans today than a year ago say the death penalty, embryonic stem cell research, and having a baby out of wedlock are morally acceptable. At the same time, ...

Ten years after his ban from baseball, public opinion appears to have shifted in Pete Rose's favor. Three in four Americans (74%) now believe Rose should be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, compared to 56% who said so in 1989, immediately ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Thursday to invalidate an anti-sodomy law in Texas is generally in line with the attitudes of a majority of Americans. Gallup Polls indicate that about 6 out of 10 American adults approve of the idea that ...

Super Bowl XXXVIII between the New England Patriots and the Carolina Panthers will be seen by more than 100 million Americans, and by as many as a billion people around the world. Gallup polls have shown that football remains America’s favorite ...