September 15, 2022, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Gloria Dabek , Samanta Dunford , Priya Fielding-Singh , and Peggy Tsai Yih, Download Report (PDF), Accessing and affording healthy food is a challenge for many Americans. In collaboration with World Central Kitchen, the Council provides domestic policy...

February 26, 2021, RESEARCH Report by Catherine Bertini and Ertharin Cousin, REUTERS, Download Report (PDF), Catherine Bertini and Ertharin Cousin are co-leads on a paper offering the Biden Administration recommendations for the US government to build on a strong foundation of food and nutrition ...

April 1, 2019, RESEARCH Report by Catherine Bertini, Caren Firouz/Reuters, Download Report (PDF), This report is a collection of perspectives from 20 authors that highlights the needs of rural girls and solutions to the challenges they face., Introduction, Girls Leading: From Rural Economies to G...

November 4, 2019, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), This report says that Americans remain supportive of the US military presence in Japan., Introduction, President Trump’s longstanding skepticism toward US alliances and the coming negotiations over...

October 1, 2011, RESEARCH Report by Catherine Bertini, Getty, Download Report (PDF), This report includes recommendations for how girls in rural communities can be better supported through improved personal and professional development, health, and safety., In August 2010, The Chicago Council ann...

October 20, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Lama El Baz, Lindsey Wasson / AP, Download Report (PDF), At the same time, fewer Americans now compared to a decade ago are convinced their country is exceptional., While some observers describe US President Donald Trump’s fore...

October 16, 2019, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Roger Thurow, Download Report (PDF), This paper seeks to raise awareness of the growing global obesity epidemic and the need to address the economic, security, and humanitarian threats it poses., Introduction, While the development community has been foc...

September 23, 2022, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Phillip Meng, Reuters, President Biden declared that "the pandemic is over." Council polling shows that when it comes to security and foreign policy, most Americans agree., More than two years into the COVID-19 outbreak, Americans’ focus on ...

July 11, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Lily Wojtowicz , Denis Volkov , and Stepan Goncharov, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), The Russian public is concerned about NATO expansion but does not think an attack from the West is imminent., At this week’s NATO summit, enlarg...

January 18, 2019, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Karl Friedhoff , and Lily Wojtowicz, William Warby, Download Report (PDF), A survey from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs reveals the South Korean public sees an improvement in their country's security., Introduction, Support ...