October 7, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Lama El Baz , and Denis Volkov, Jehad Alshrafi / AP, Download Report (PDF), A plurality say the United States and NATO are most responsible for ongoing bloodshed and instability in the Middle East., On the one-year anniversary of Ha...

December 1, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Sam Dong and Karl Friedhoff, Noah Berger / AP, Download Report (PDF), Americans of all partisan stripes agree free trade agreements are important, but Republicans want them with a side of trade barriers., Since re-entering the White House this y...

June 1, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Craig Kafura , Candace Rondeaux , Heela Rasool-Ayub , and Deborah Avant, AP Photos, The Council partnered with New America to explore how Black, Asian, Hispanic, and Native Americans view key issues facing the world today., In the Unit...

December 18, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Craig Kafura , Lama El Baz , Jordan Tama , and Joshua Busby, Virginia Mayo / AP, Download Report (PDF), Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s aversion to alliances, foreign policy professionals across the American political spe...

April 20, 2022, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Lily Wojtowicz , Denis Volkov , and Stepan Goncharov, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), Russians and Americans seem to sense a global alignment of democracies versus autocracies, and both publics fear a nuclear exchange., The current c...

December 20, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura and Lama El Baz, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), But Republicans and Democrats are sharply divided when it comes to immigration levels., Immigration to the United States has long been a contentious and divisive issue at the foref...

August 7, 2017, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Karl Friedhoff and Dina Smeltz, Stefan Krasowski, Download Report (PDF), The 2017 Chicago Council Survey found that while the American public supports sanctions against North Korea, they don't support overt military action., On July 28, 2017, Nort...

November 16, 2022, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura and Emily Sullivan, Reuters, While half of Americans and a majority of Democrats say diversity makes the United States a better place to live, Republicans aren’t so sure., Key Findings, A majority of Americans (53%)—including m...

October 25, 2022, RESEARCH Report by Ethan Kessler, Wang Yu Ching, Download Report (PDF), Washington has started selling arms that serve a "porcupine" defense strategy to Taiwan. Whether Taipei fully embraces this new approach remains to be seen., Taiwan, claimed by China as a rogue province and ...

December 8, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lama El Baz, Ian Maule / AP, Download Report (PDF), As technology reshapes media ecosystems, Council polling finds the US public is struggling to weed out fact from fiction., Over the last decade, the decline of traditional news outlets and rise...