| 1 | We should tax property by the value of the land itself, independent of what is or is not built on it. Belief | 0.50 | 38% | 44 |
| 2 | Barring members of Congress and the president from owning or trading individual stocks would reduce the use of public office for private gain. Belief | 0.50 | 67% | 39 |
| 3 | Letting Congress overturn a presidential pardon by a two-thirds vote of both chambers would reduce the use of the pardon power for private gain. Belief | 0.50 | 54% | 37 |
| 4 | Barring the president and members of Congress from giving any official government function to a family member would reduce the use of public office for private gain. Belief | 0.50 | 53% | 33 |
| 5 | Requiring the president and members of Congress to publish their tax returns would reduce the use of public office for private gain. Belief | 0.50 | 53% | 32 |
| 6 | We should make America the dominant energy producer in the world, by far. Belief | 0.50 | 36% | 19 |
| 7 | The United States should stop outsourcing and become a manufacturing superpower. Belief | 0.50 | 36% | 18 |
| 8 | Workers should get tax cuts, and tips should not be taxed as income. Belief | 0.50 | 36% | 17 |
| 9 | America should grow to one billion citizens. Belief | 0.50 | 37% | 16 |
| 10 | Public office should not be usable for private gain. Belief | 0.50 | 40% | 16 |
| 11 | We should defend the freedom of religion and the freedom from religion. Belief | 0.50 | 36% | 16 |
| 12 | We should defend our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech. Belief | 0.50 | 35% | 14 |
| 13 | America should adopt a comprehensive scorecard that measures national progress across human development, economic vitality, environmental health, and social cohesion, not just GDP. Belief | 0.50 | 36% | 12 |
| 14 | A good end does not justify using means that would otherwise be wrong. Belief | 0.50 | 33% | 11 |
| 15 | Caitlin Clark's popularity owes more to her play than to her being white. Belief | 0.50 | 39% | 11 |
| 16 | Caitlin Clark is the main reason WNBA attendance and television ratings rose sharply in 2024 and 2025. Belief | 0.50 | 41% | 10 |
| 17 | Leaving Caitlin Clark off the 2024 United States Olympic basketball team was the right call. Belief | 0.50 | 41% | 10 |
| 18 | Public policy should be driven by data and measurable outcomes rather than by ideology. Belief | 0.50 | 36% | 10 |
| 19 | We should support and strengthen democracy to restore the voter's voice. Belief | 0.50 | 36% | 10 |
| 20 | Opposing players have targeted Caitlin Clark with harder and more frequent physical play than other rookies and stars receive. Belief | 0.50 | 41% | 9 |
| 21 | Representative civic juries should be convened, online and in person, to deliberate on key legislation. Belief | 0.50 | 35% | 9 |
| 22 | We cannot stand by while cultures are subjected to genocide, as exemplified by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Belief | 0.50 | 36% | 9 |
| 23 | America should encourage legal immigration. Belief | 0.50 | 35% | 8 |
| 24 | America should invest in energy research. Belief | 0.50 | 35% | 8 |
| 25 | Ranked-choice voting produces better electoral outcomes than plurality voting. Belief | 0.50 | 33% | 8 |
| 26 | A strong America is good for the planet. Belief | 0.50 | 33% | 7 |
| 27 | America should end illegal immigration. Belief | 0.50 | 35% | 7 |
| 28 | America should streamline the system to recruit and retain highly skilled workers. Belief | 0.50 | 36% | 7 |
| 29 | America should strengthen its global leadership by modeling a strong, functioning democracy at home. Belief | 0.50 | 35% | 7 |
| 30 | A company generally serves the public best when it focuses on making a profit for its owners within the law. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 31 | A country should generally keep its military spending high in peacetime rather than cutting it once threats seem to fade. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 32 | A country should protect its key manufacturing industries with tariffs even when imports are cheaper. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 33 | A dictionary should generally refuse to list a widespread misuse of a word as a legitimate meaning until careful writers have accepted it. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 34 | A four-year college degree is still worth its cost for most students. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 35 | A news outlet that publishes a false and damaging claim about anyone, including a public figure, should generally have to pay damages if it failed to take reasonable care to check the claim. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 36 | A newspaper that can no longer pay its own way should generally be allowed to close rather than be kept alive with public money or special rules. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 37 | A person's choices matter more than their circumstances in how their life turns out. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 38 | A photograph's worth clearly rests more on what it truthfully shows than on the photographer's artistry. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 39 | A single government-run health insurance program covering everyone would generally deliver better care at lower cost than a system of competing private insurers. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 40 | Adding automation to critical systems tends to create new kinds of failure that are harder to catch than the ones it removes. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 41 | Adults should feel free to build their family life around their own happiness rather than around tradition. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 42 | Adults should generally be allowed to buy common prescription drugs from a pharmacist without a doctor's visit. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 43 | Adults who borrowed for college generally should repay their loans rather than pass the cost to taxpayers who did not attend. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 44 | Any registered voter should be able to vote by mail without giving a reason. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 45 | Archaeologists should generally excavate important sites now rather than leave them in the ground for future generations. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 46 | Banks that are too big to fail should be broken up. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 47 | Banning the sale of new gasoline cars by a fixed date is generally a mistake. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 48 | Building a new, larger particle collider is clearly worth its cost for what it could reveal. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 49 | California should generally override local zoning rules to force far more housing to be built. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 50 | Canceling a large share of existing student loan debt would do more good than harm. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 51 | Charging drivers a fee to enter the most crowded part of Manhattan is the right policy. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 52 | Children generally do best when raised by two married parents. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 53 | Cities should generally redesign streets to slow cars down, even when that lengthens drive times. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 54 | Cities that spend public money on stadiums for professional teams generally get back less than they put in. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 55 | Claims that apes and parrots understand language generally reflect human wishful thinking rather than real ability. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 56 | Comedians should generally be able to joke about any subject without losing work over the offense a joke causes. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 57 | Communities are generally better off when most people belong to a religious congregation. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 58 | Companies should be banned from putting forced arbitration clauses in consumer contracts. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 59 | Companies should need a person's clear permission before collecting their data for advertising. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 60 | Competition in educational opportunities, such as charter schools and school vouchers, makes traditional public schools better. Belief | 0.50 | 33% | 6 |
| 61 | Dictionaries should generally record how people actually use words rather than rule on which uses are correct. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 62 | Doctors should generally follow standardized treatment guidelines rather than rely on their own judgment. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 63 | Employers should generally be free to fire workers without having to show a reason, as long as the firing is not discriminatory. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 64 | Fish clearly feel pain in a way that matters, not just a reflex to avoid harm. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 65 | For most people, ordinary daily activity such as walking delivers most of the health benefit of exercise, and formal workouts add little. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 66 | For most people, staying able-bodied into old age requires planned strength training that gets harder over time, because everyday activity alone is unlikely to preserve the muscle and bone that keep people independent. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 67 | Free trade with other countries makes ordinary people in a country better off overall, even when some industries lose. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 68 | Governments should generally fund efforts to keep endangered minority languages alive. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 69 | Governments should generally provide limited public funding to local newspapers so that local government keeps getting covered. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 70 | Governments should generally require proven childhood vaccines for school attendance. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 71 | Governments should generally set a maximum price for medicines that are still under patent. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 72 | Governments should not hold back the spread of AI in workplaces in order to protect existing jobs. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 73 | Governments should put protecting the environment ahead of economic growth when the two conflict. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 74 | Heavy digital editing generally does not make a photograph any less of a photograph. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 75 | Historians generally should not judge people of the past by today's moral standards. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 76 | Houston is right to go without traditional citywide zoning. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 77 | Human activity is clearly the main cause of the warming seen over the past century. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 78 | Hunting is generally good for wildlife conservation. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 79 | In wealthy countries, most adults who stay poor do so mainly because of their own choices about school, work, and family, not because the chance to escape was closed to them. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 80 | Internet providers should generally be barred by law from speeding up, slowing down or charging extra for particular websites and services. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 81 | Japan should keep immigration low even as its population shrinks. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 82 | Jokes that mock people for their race, religion, disability or sex do real harm and deserve public pushback. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 83 | Journalists should generally have a legal right to refuse to reveal a confidential source's identity, except where a court finds the name is needed to prevent serious harm. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 84 | Judges should be allowed to keep suspects they consider dangerous in jail before trial, even when those suspects could afford bail. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 85 | Judging teachers partly by their students' test results generally makes schools better. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 86 | Large companies should be required by law to give their workers seats on their boards. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 87 | Law enforcement should be able to read encrypted messages when it has a warrant. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 88 | Laws that require people to prove their age before using social media do more harm than good. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 89 | Letting public education money follow each student to the school their family chooses clearly improves education for the families who need it most. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 90 | Long prison sentences generally do little to reduce crime compared with raising the odds of being caught. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 91 | Longer prison sentences generally make communities safer. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 92 | Most people probably need not cut back on their vacation flights for the climate's sake. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 93 | Most people with depression or anxiety would clearly benefit from professional treatment rather than handling it on their own. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 94 | Most people's character is set by their upbringing and changes little in adulthood. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 95 | Most working authors are better off self-publishing than signing with a traditional publisher. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 96 | Most young people would be better served by trade training or an apprenticeship than by a four-year degree. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 97 | Museums should generally return human remains and sacred objects to the communities descended from the people they belonged to or who made them. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 98 | New movies should generally open in theaters for a period before they reach streaming services. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 99 | Ordinary people are generally better served when social media platforms show news posts without labeling, fact-checking, or removing them than when platforms do those things. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 100 | Paid random rewards in video games should be regulated the way gambling is. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 101 | Patients with serious illness should generally be free to try unproven treatments with their own money. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 102 | People should generally pay for routine medical care out of their own pockets and buy private insurance only to cover large, unexpected expenses. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 103 | Philosophy generally makes no real progress on its big questions. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 104 | Philosophy should generally be taught in high school alongside math and science. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 105 | Phone makers should be allowed to require that every app on their devices pass through an app store they review. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 106 | Police departments should spend more of their effort preventing crime than making arrests. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 107 | Popular destinations should generally cap the number of tourists they admit. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 108 | Popular genre fiction such as romance, crime and fantasy generally deserves the same critical respect as literary fiction. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 109 | Popular national parks should generally require timed-entry reservations. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 110 | Public decisions should generally rest on measured statistics rather than on personal experience and anecdote. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 111 | Publicly funded television news is generally not worth the cost now that viewers have countless free sources. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 112 | Quoting a famous person generally adds little to whether a claim is true. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 113 | Radio remains an essential news source during emergencies and for people who lack reliable internet access. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 114 | Raising the minimum wage generally helps low-paid workers more than it hurts them. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 115 | Reference works should generally refuse to print a quotation whose original source cannot be found. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 116 | Religious beliefs should almost never be the basis for deciding what the law should be. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 117 | Routine cancer screening of healthy adults with no symptoms generally does more harm than good. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 118 | Rules that bar ordinary people from buying investments that are open to the wealthy do more harm than good. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 119 | Sales taxes on everyday goods should be lower than they are today. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 120 | Schools in a country with one dominant language should teach mainly in that language rather than in students' home languages. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 121 | Schools should generally require students to read the classic works of literature rather than let them choose their own books. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 122 | Scientists and agencies who publish regional and local climate forecasts generally present them with more confidence than the climate models behind them have earned. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 123 | Scotland would be better off as an independent country. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 124 | Self-driving cars can clearly be made safer than human drivers on ordinary roads. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 125 | Sending public money to private and charter schools generally weakens the neighborhood schools that most children still attend. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 126 | Simple life exists on many planets in our galaxy. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 127 | Social media platforms should be required to pay news publishers for the articles that draw users into their feeds. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 128 | Statistics quoted in public debate tend to mislead more often than they inform. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 129 | Statues honoring historical figures who did serious wrongs should generally be removed from public squares. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 130 | Streaming has clearly done more good than harm for musicians by letting anyone reach a worldwide audience without a record label. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 131 | Streaming services generally pay working musicians too little to make a living from recorded music. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 132 | String theory has clearly failed to earn the central place it holds in physics. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 133 | Studios should let viewers choose to watch new movies at home on the same day they open in theaters. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 134 | Talk radio generally does more to drive its listeners apart from people who disagree with them than to inform them. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 135 | Tariffs on imported goods generally cost a country's consumers more than they save its workers. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 136 | Teachers generally do their best work when they control what and how they teach rather than following a set script. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 137 | Teaching children to build toughness and tolerate discomfort does more for their mental health than teaching them to monitor and talk about their feelings. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 138 | Technology tends to solve environmental problems better than restrictions on how people live. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 139 | Technology-building intelligent life has arisen on very few worlds in our galaxy besides Earth. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 140 | Television channels that present opinion shows in the style of a newscast should be required to label those shows as opinion on screen. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 141 | Texas should connect its separate electric grid to the national grids rather than keeping it apart. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 142 | The United Kingdom should rejoin the European single market. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 143 | The highest-earning households should pay a larger share of their income in taxes than they do today. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 144 | The legislature, not the executive alone, should generally have to approve any sustained military action abroad. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 145 | The seven states that share the Colorado River should let the federal government decide how to divide its shrinking water supply rather than try to negotiate a deal among themselves. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 146 | Traditional publishers still generally produce better books for readers than self-publishing does. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 147 | Training AI on copyrighted work without permission should be against the law. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 148 | Violent content in video games generally needs no government rules beyond the age ratings the game industry already puts on its products. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 149 | Voters should generally be required to show government-issued photo identification before casting a ballot. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 150 | Warning labels and disclosure rules do little to change how people buy and add cost without much benefit. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 151 | We should give our outdated weapons to democratic allies trying to defend their territory. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 152 | When a government pays to have software built for public services, its source code should, by default, be made public for anyone to read. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 153 | Where a person ends up in life is shaped more by the family and neighborhood they were born into than by their own choices. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 154 | Youth leagues should not offer tackle football to children below high school age. Belief | 0.50 | 32% | 6 |
| 155 | America should reform its immigration laws. Belief | 0.50 | 36% | 5 |
| 156 | Congressional term limits would reduce corruption and improve legislative quality. Belief | 0.50 | 36% | 5 |
| 157 | True freedom requires balancing individual liberty with personal responsibility and active civic engagement. Belief | 0.50 | 16% | 4 |
| 158 | We should keep men out of women's sports. Belief | 0.50 | 30% | 3 |
| 159 | Students in failing schools should be able to exercise school choice. Belief | 0.50 | 13% | 2 |
| 160 | Homelessness, crime, and low mass transit use in cities like Denver are holding back urban density. Belief | 0.50 | 12% | 1 |
| 161 | We should defend the United States Constitution. Belief | 0.50 | 34% | 1 |