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...

January 28, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lama El Baz, Charlie Riedel / AP, Download Report (PDF), Most Americans—including a majority of Republicans—favor a range of measures to reverse or adapt to climate change., On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed ...

November 25, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lama El Baz , Craig Kafura , Dina Smeltz , Jordan Tama , and Joshua Busby, Leo Correa / AP, When it comes to the conflict in the Middle East, American foreign policy professionals are more divided along partisan lines than the general public., ...

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, ...

March 4, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lama El Baz, Lynne Sladky/AP, Download Report (PDF), Unlike their elders, young Americans don’t buy into US exceptionalism and are divided on whether the United States should play an active role or stay out of world affairs., With a diverse range...

February 1, 2022, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Emily Sullivan, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), Chicago Council data show that some key foreign policy issues have the potential to disrupt Democratic Party unity., Progressive and moderate Democrats have struggled to find agreem...

September 15, 2022, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, Reuters, Download Topline (PDF), But American concern about large numbers of immigrants and refugees coming into the country has steadily decreased over the past decades., Key Findings, Most Republicans (70%)—but few Democrats ...

July 17, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Lama El Baz , Heela Rasool-Ayub , Candace Rondeaux , and Christopher Shell, Ohad Zwigenberg / AP, Download Report (PDF), Majorities across all racial groups prefer that the United States remain impartial as fighting between Israel and...

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...

September 9, 2022, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Karl Friedhoff, Reuters, Download Topline (PDF), A majority support using US troops to defend Seoul should North Korea invade, Council polling shows., The American public has come a long way in its attitudes toward South Korea. Positive feeling...