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Sixty percent of Americans favor the death penalty for convicted murderers, the lowest level of death penalty support Gallup has measured since 1972, and down from a high of 80% in 1994.

Time magazine's labeling of Donald Trump as president of the "Divided States of America" may summarize the election results, but it is not how the Trump vs. Clinton states view the issues.

One in four Americans (25%) now call themselves liberal, reflecting steady gains since the 1990s. Conservatives remain the largest ideological group, at 36%.

The percentage of U.S. adults identifying as "liberal" grew by a percentage point in 2017, while "conservatives" fell by a point, narrowing conservatives' edge to single digits for the first time.

The National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign launched a set of television ads this year aimed at debunking teens' perceptions that marijuana is a harmless drug. The timing is good: government data show that marijuana use is on the rise among U.S. ...

Canadians today have a more liberal point of view regarding marijuana use than they did in the midst of the swinging '70s.

A record-low 26% of Americans favor a ban on handguns in the U.S. Also, for the first time, Americans are more likely to oppose (53%) than favor (43%) a ban on assault rifles. More broadly, Americans' support for stricter handgun laws and ...

A recent Gallup study supports the idea that teens who drink or use marijuana are more likely than other teens to exhibit signs of alienation -- they more frequently express negative thoughts about themselves and contemplate their own deaths.

In 1999, a third of Americans told Gallup that they had tried marijuana at some point. Whom do the data reveal to be more likely to have imbibed? Republican or Democrat? City slicker or rural resident?

By the mid-1980s, the introduction of crack cocaine turned youth drug use into a truly terrifying issue. Crack was cheap, plentiful and hideously addictive. By the last decade of the millennium, it appeared that fewer people were using drugs. ...