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Slightly fewer than one in five Americans say they are environmental activists; their attitudes and actions differ from others who support environmentalism.

With President Obama hitting new lows in both our daily and weekly averages of his job approval rating in recent days, many are speculating about both the potential causes and implications.

More Americans disapprove (53%) than approve (37%) of the government program that obtained telephone call logs and Internet communication records. Americans are split on whether leaker Edward Snowden did the right or wrong thing.

Americans are still reading books, with the largest percentage saying they read between one and 10 books in the past year. Seniors are reading roughly the same amount of books compared with younger Americans.

A unique anniversary is upon us. Seventy-five years ago today -- Oct. 20, 1935 -- the Gallup Poll published its first official release of public opinion data.

The Atlantic Magazine Senior Editor Derek Thompson begins his Sept. 21 piece on the latest USA Today/Gallup poll on Obama's job plan by saying: "Reading public opinion polls aren't [sic] a good way to make public policy."

For the fourth straight year, the majority of Americans say they have little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly -- now 57%, a record high by one percentage point. Perceptions of media bias persist, ...

Americans continue to express near record-low confidence in U.S. public schools. The 34% who express a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence is unchanged from last year and in the range seen throughout the past few years of tumult for the ...

Prior to the recent verdict in the Casey Anthony trial, Americans had middling confidence in the nation's criminal justice system. The plurality of Americans, 42% expressed "some" confidence in the system, while about equal numbers had a great ...

Gallup's annual update on confidence in institutions finds Americans expressing the most confidence in the military and the least in Congress. This year, there has been a slight uptick in Americans' confidence in television news and newspapers, ...