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Illicit drug use among the overall population has declined over the past quarter-century and is roughly half of what it was in 1979. Still, two-thirds of Americans remain worried about drug use in America.

A recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll asked Americans how they feel about using some controversial interrogation techniques on prisoners suspected of having information about possible terrorist attacks against the United States. By and large, a ...

Gallup's 2005 update of Americans' confidence in institutions finds the military, once again, head and shoulders above the competition. The police and organized religion rank second and third, respectively, on this year's list, while HMOs have ...

Parents whose oldest child is in middle school are less likely than parents whose oldest child is in elementary or high school to feel that their child is safe at school, and middle school parents are also less likely than elementary school ...

The same teens who, just a few short weeks ago, were swimming, reading, going to camp, listening to music, or hanging with friends, are now back in school, with the memory of summer 2004 growing dimmer by the minute. How did America’s teens ...

The average American is exposed to hundreds if not thousands of mass media messages every day. Many of those messages come in the form of news, whether it is the morning newspaper, a favorite talk radio station or television. The 1980s and '90s ...

Charles Schulz, creator of the comic stripPeanuts, officially announced his retirement, effective January 4 of this year. His last original daily strip has already appeared, and his final original Sunday strip appears in newspapers this Sunday, ...

The 2004 exit poll found "moral values" to be one of the most important "issues" in the election. The question that elicited these results came under severe criticism after the election, with one observer suggesting the flawed wording was ...

It has been 25 years since the Los Angeles Times Poll began operation, much to the consternation of the Field Poll -- which had for years been the dominant public policy poll in California, and had counted the Times as one of its subscribers. A ...