Nearly half of Americans say that growing marijuana should be legal, and even more support legalizing the growing of hemp, according to a new HuffPost...
American support for federal disaster relief programs is high, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll. And if a disaster aid bill is needed for thos...
Support for expanding background checks to more gun purchases remains high, according to polls released Thursday. But the surveys provide mixed eviden...
A majority of working Americans are noticing smaller paychecks after the payroll tax cut expired this year, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll --...
Vermont this week became the fourth U.S. state to legalize doctor-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, and a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds t...
Following news that the IRS subjected conservative and tea party groups applying for tax exempt status to additional scrutiny, most Americans now have...
What constitutes cheating? Most people might agree that having sex with someone other than your partner is clear-cut infidelity, but what about sen...
Americans are more likely to disapprove than approve of the way President Barack Obama has handled the aftermath of last September's attack on the U.S...
SAVAR, Bangladesh — Even amid the euphoria over finding a woman alive in the rubble of a garment factory that collapsed more than two weeks ago,...
NEW YORK -- The deadly factory collapse in Bangladesh more than two weeks ago has led to calls for retailers to change the way they do business overse...
Most Americans are in favor of giving trials to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll. But the res...
Few Americans want the U.S. military to get involved in the conflict in Syria, even those who think Syria has used chemical weapons against its people...
WASHINGTON -- Dawn Andrade of North Highlands, Calif. worked as a customer service administrator for an IT company for most of her adult life before g...
Americans are more likely than not to say that workplace safety regulations should be more strict in the wake of a fertilizer plant that exploded in T...
Americans have mostly positive views of the way the media performed in covering the Boston Marathon bombings, according to two new polls released this...
Americans place less importance on environmental issues than they did in 1971, a year after Earth Day was established, according to a new HuffPost/You...
Three years after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Americans are still likely to have an unfavorable view of the company involved in the disast...
Feelings of disappointment and anger overwhelm those of relief or excitement over the Senate's rejection of background check legislation earlier this ...
A clear majority of Americans say that marijuana should be made legal if it will be taxed and regulated like alcohol, even though few say they use mar...
Only one-fifth of Americans identify as feminists, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll. But the vast majority fit the basic definition of the word...
It is estimated that just 8 percent of American women will keep their last names after marriage. That's down from a record high of about 23 percent in...
Pitching gun violence legislation during a major speech in Connecticut this past week, President Barack Obama noted that, according to multiple polls,...
WASHINGTON -- More than half of Americans believe there is a link between violent video games and gun violence, but only a third favor more government...
WASHINGTON -- As they do on many obscure policy issues, Americans polarize sharply along partisan lines when they learn that President Barack Obama su...
A provocative new poll shows that Americans have little trouble imagining a future full of personal service robots -- at least when it comes to robots...
