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US Global Leadership Is Losing Ground at Home

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World Politics Review
Candace Rondeaux

Candace Rondeaux uses Council-New America data to analyze what demographic shifts might mean for the future of US foreign policy.

light shines through an American flag
Nick Ut / AP
US Foreign Policy

Trump Has Nothing New to Say on Foreign Policy

In the News
World Politics Review
Paul Poast

Trump's foreign policy platform is "essentially a rerun of the script he used the first time around," Paul Poast writes.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the Turning Point Believers' Summit
Alex Brandon / AP
US Foreign Policy

The 2024 US Presidential Election and South Korea

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Korea Society
Dina Smeltz

Dina Smeltz and other experts unpack how America’s 2024 elections will impact domestic politics, foreign policy, and the US-South Korea relationship.

Dina Smeltz speaks on stage Public Opinion

Where "Pure Independents" Stand on US Foreign Policy

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Running Numbers by Coauthors

Independents who lean toward neither party could play a decisive role in the 2024 presidential election.

a person stands at a voting booth
Patrick Semansky / AP
Public Opinion

The United States Pursues Its Lithium Independence

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Running Numbers by Karl Friedhoff

The hunt for the key battery component is only the beginning of the story.

Construction continues at the Thacker Pass lithium mine near Orovada, Nevada
Rick Bowmer / AP
Global Economy

Foreign Policy Experts Fear the Threat Is Coming from Inside the House

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Running Numbers by Coauthors

Large majorities of Democratic and Independent foreign policy elites say they are more concerned about internal threats than external ones.

Security fencing installed around the US Capitol
J. Scott Applewhite / AP
US Foreign Policy

Can You Get Rid of Forever Chemicals? More Countries are Finding Out

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Global Insight by Hope O'Dell

While many PFAS chemicals are unregulated worldwide, more countries are acting to limit them, since they have been found in soil, water, and even people’s bloodstreams.

An illustration of an egg shaped like a beaker in a frying pan
Elizabeth Sokolich
Tech and Science

Republicans and Democrats Don’t Agree on a Single Immigration Policy: Poll

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The Hill
Craig Kafura

New Council-Ipsos polling reveals there is little common ground to be found between the right and left when it comes to immigration policy solutions.

The US-Mexico border wall seen from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Christian Chavez / AP
Public Opinion

Pro-Palestinian Student Protests Spread from US to Europe

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VOA
Paul Poast

Nonresident Fellow Paul Poast joins VOA to unpack the recent protests against Israel's war in Gaza sweeping college campuses.

Paul Poast appears on VOA via Zoom US Foreign Policy

American Rare Earths Find Comes up Short

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Running Numbers by Karl Friedhoff

The eventual extraction from Wyoming’s Halleck Creek site will be much smaller than the reported 2.34 billion tonnes.

 mountains in northeast Wyoming which hold one of North America's best deposits of rare earth elements
Mead Gruver / AP
Global Economy