Just 18% of Americans say they are satisfied with the way things are going in the country today, down from 22% in March and 27% at the end of 2007. This represents a new low in 20 years of Pew Research Center polling.

Following Tennessee’s lead, seven states have moved to guarantee domestic production of all U.S. flags purchased by the state government while one other state, Minnesota seeks to bar all foreign-made flags.

A sizable minority of voters (43%) say Obama’s approach to foreign policy would not be tough enough.

One-in-five online adults have used a search engine to find information about a co-worker, professional colleague, or business competitor.

Among married adult Americans, 27% are in religiously mixed marriages.

Cited by 19% of Muslim Americans, prejudice and discrimination lead the list of the biggest problems that U.S. Muslims say they face, followed by being viewed as terrorists, ignorance about Islam and negative stereotyping.

As has been the case for some time, Americans are close to evenly divided between those who rate their personal finances as only fair or poor (51%) and those who say they are excellent or good (47%).