In 2024, independent voters helped elect Donald Trump. Two years later, there are more registered independent voters than ever, and polls show most will back Democrats in November’s midterms. “A shift in independents’ political leanings caused the Republican Party advantage…
Americans now perceive US among most corrupt governments
Nearly 90% of Americans believe government corruption is pervasive as the nation nears the midterm elections, according to a new Gallup survey. The 89% who said the problem is “widespread” was up 10 points from last year, reached the highest…
Strong support among U.S. adults for state-sanctioned religious displays
Half of U.S. adults favor displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools while slightly less, at 48%, oppose the practice, according to a new study by Pew Research Center. The April survey of 3,592 respondents also found 78% favor student-led…
Fewer Americans believe midterm elections will be fair
Confidence in the reliability of 2026 midterm elections is lower than that of any national referendum since Pew Research Center began asking the question. A recent study by Pew found just 55% of Americans believe the November elections will be…
Why America Should Fear The Decline Of Religious Women
For as long as social scientists have measured such things in America, women attended church more often than men, prayed more often and reported that faith mattered more in their lives. The pattern held across states and social classes. Today,…
Complementarians should learn from moral clarity of Congress
Congress has a 9% confidence rating among Americans, according to recent data from Gallup. And yet, it’s more ethical than mainstream evangelicalism’s institution of complementarian marriage. Discussion about addressing sexual ethics on Capitol Hill has grown over the past few months…
Mohler again claims same-sex marriage harms children
A leading Southern Baptist Convention spokesman has taken aim again at the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., and author of the SBC’s constitutional amendment…
What’s the real story with Gen Z and religion today?
Last week, we released the latest PRRI Census of American Religion. Our 2025 data show religious affiliation in the United States has remained largely unchanged since 2024, with 28% of Americans identifying as religiously unaffiliated. Church attendance also has not increased….
US LGBTQ identification holds steady at 9%
About 9% of American adults identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or something other than heterosexual, according to Gallup. That percentage is unchanged from last year but remains more than double the 3.5% from 2012, the first year Gallup measured…
What do women really want? To move
According to a new Gallup poll, one in five Americans wish they could leave the U.S. and permanently relocate to another country. The demographic driving this record-high desire to emigrate are women and teens ages 15 to 44, 40% of…
Despite Trump’s words, most Americans believe racism is widespread
Despite the MAGA campaign to rewrite American history to deemphasize racism, a supermajority of Americans still believes racism against Black people is widespread in the United States. The latest Gallup poll finds 64% of Americans saying racism against Black people…
‘We don’t hate, but they do,’ conservative Christian activists claim
When conservative Christian activist groups are called hateful or placed on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hate map, they claim innocence and reverse the charge: “The real haters are those people who say we’re hateful.” “You are not hateful or…