Publications

88% of Americans say marijuana should be legal for medical or recreational use. Just 11% say the drug should not be legal in any form.

74% of Americans live in a state where marijuana is legal for either recreational or medical use.

About half of all U.S. adults who use TikTok have never posted a video themselves. And the top 25% of U.S. adults on the site by posting volume produce 98% of all publicly accessible videos from this group. Users who have posted videos are generally more active on the platform than non-posters.

Thousands of guests appeared on the top-ranked podcasts in 2022, but a relatively small number accounted for a majority of appearances. 76% of top-ranked podcasts brought on at least one guest in 2022, and 27% almost always or regularly featured guests.

Although especially common in California and Texas, Mexican restaurants are found in a large majority of counties in the U.S.

Today, there are more than 18 million living veterans in the United States, representing about 6% of the country’s adult population.

As Elon Musk rebrands Twitter to "X," here are eight facts about Americans' use of the social media platform.

More than 44 million #BlackLivesMatter tweets from nearly 10 million distinct users currently exist on Twitter today. Over half of all existing tweets that include the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag were posted from May to September 2020.

True crime is the most common topic, making up 24% of top-ranked podcasts; 15% of the top podcasts focus on news. The next most common topics are politics and government (10%); entertainment, pop culture and the arts (9%); and self-help and relationships (8%).

The public is sharply divided along partisan lines on topics ranging from what should be taught in schools to how much influence parents should have over the curriculum.