As Americans begin a new year, nearly six-in-ten say this decade will be better than the last 10 years.

Fully 16% of Americans believe in the “evil eye” or that certain people can cast curses or spells that cause bad things to happen to someone.

Some parents may be spending more than just the holidays with their grown children as 13% say one of their adult sons or daughters has moved back home.

Compared with the U.S. and Western Europe, Russians are far less concerned about the potential threat from a nuclear-armed Iran.

Just 3% of health care opponents cite abortion funding as their main reason for opposing legislation.

Given a list of 14 programs, for only two are more than 20% of Americans in favor of decreasing government spending.

Though just a third of Turks have confidence in President Obama, that is up from 2008 when only 2% had faith in the American president.

About one-in-five Americans say the Democratic Party is unfriendly to religion.

Nearly half the country considers Hollywood unfriendly toward religion.