February 8, 2017, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, Courtesy US Dept. of Agriculture, Download Report (PDF), The US-Japan relationship faces significant challenges in the rise of China and the inauguration of Trump. However, decades of polling show the bilateral alliance also has de...

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...

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May 24, 2011, RESEARCH Report by Catherine Bertini and Dan Glickman, Download Report (PDF), This report documents the degree to which the Administration and Congress have made progress in achieving the changes in US government policy that were recommended in 2009., Key Findings , In February 200...

September 18, 2017, RESEARCH Report by Rob Paral, Allen McGregor, Download Report (PDF), Cities of the American Midwest were largely built by immigration, and immigrants were a key component of the population growth these cities experienced in the early decades of the last century., Introduction,...

September 28, 2022, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Karl Friedhoff, US Department of Defense, But large majorities support sending additional arms and military supplies to Ukraine, and if needed, Taiwan, Council polling shows., In his 2023 budget, US President Joe Biden sought a record $813 bil...

March 5, 2020, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Joshua Busby , Craig Kafura , Dina Smeltz , Jordan Tama , Jonathan Monten , Joshua D. Kertzer , and Brendan Helm, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), We examine the attitudes of foreign policy opinion leaders and the public in the Trump Era., Introduct...

December 24, 2019, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura and Dina Smeltz, Simon Foot, Download Report (PDF), A survey shows more Americans now oppose expanding the US-Mexico border wall since last asked in 2016., Introduction, The federal government remains in a partial shutdown, the lon...

October 8, 2019, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura and Bettina Hammer, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), Republicans see immigration as a critical threat to the country, say restricting immigration makes the US safer, and support using US troops to stop migrants from crossing into the ...

July 8, 2019, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Joshua Busby , Stephen Slick , and Kingsley Burns, Download Report (PDF) Topline Report (PDF), Despite this unprecedented antagonism from President Trump’s administration, most Americans, including Republicans, continued to express confidence in t...