December 5, 2022, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Craig Kafura , and Emily Sullivan, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), Nearly half of Americans (47%) now say Washington should urge Kyiv to settle for peace as soon as possible., At the end of November, the United States authorized it...

October 12, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Craig Kafura, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), For the first time, a majority of Republicans think the United States should stay out of world affairs., The 2023 Chicago Council Survey, conducted September 7–18, 2023, finds evi...

August 12, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Libby Berry, J. Scott Applewhite / AP, The public wants to increase the budget for domestic issues like infrastructure and education but is divided over defense spending and foreign assistance., The federal budget is a perennial election issue in...

November 12, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), The public generally does not see current US trade policies toward China as benefiting Americans., The 2023 Chicago Council Survey, conducted September 7–18, 2023, finds Americans concerned abou...

November 17, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, Louise Delmotte / AP, Download Report (PDF), Still, the US public prefers to maintain the status quo across the Taiwan Strait rather than risk military confrontation with Beijing., Since the United States formally recognized the P...

October 7, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lama El Baz, Oded Balilty / AP, Download Report (PDF), As the war in Gaza continues, rifts between progressive and moderate Democrats are deepening—and cracks within the Republican Party are also beginning to show., The security partnership bet...

August 22, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz, Carolyn Kaster / AP, While most Democrats favor taking an active part in world affairs, Republicans remain divided., As Democrats meet in Chicago to officially nominate Kamala Harris and lay out their platform for the 2024 election, ...

November 25, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Craig Kafura , Lama El Baz , Jordan Tama , Joshua Busby , and Jonathan Monten, Alex Brandon / AP, Download Data (ZIP), We investigate where the attitudes of foreign policy professionals and the American public align—and diverge�...

September 22, 2021, RESEARCH Book by Richard C. Longworth, A dual history, of a century of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and of the foreign policy battles and debates as they paraded across the Council's stage., The Council came to life in 1922 in a Chicago dominated by isolationism. It l...

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...