Commentary and Analysis

“Democrats have stayed pretty remarkably consistent,” in support for US aid to Ukraine, Senior Fellow Dina Smeltz explains on WESH-2 News.

"Soft spots have been showing—and risk becoming cracks in the support base Biden needs to sustain that commitment." argues Bruce Jentleson.

Senior Fellow Dina Smeltz joins NewsNation to break down recent polling.

The war in Ukraine has shifted public opinion toward energy independence, renewable power, and nuclear energy.

In countries that favor a negotiated end to the conflict, support for specific policy measures that aid Ukraine has fallen.

"Early poll suggests South Koreans prefer Democratic leader as next peastolitical leader, but caveats abound," writes Marshall M. Bouton Fellow Karl Friedhoff.

The fallout from the removal of President Pedro Castillo has revealed a young democracy in dire straits.

The South Korean public is lukewarm about reforms like extending the work week, Karl Friedhoff writes, but Yoon likely sees value in taking a harder line.

Citizens and policymakers alike embrace industrial policy as great power competition intensifies.

While younger Americans are most concerned about climate change, pluralities of each generation are ready to take action to prevent it.