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Reflect on the year with highlights from the Council's public opinion research and analysis.

Robert Ford and Tamara Cofman Wittes join the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Deep Dish podcast to dissect the Trump administration’s withdrawal from Syria.

Biden-era surveys affirm continued support for the intelligence community but also signal growing partisanship.

While many in the West see the outcome of the war as determined by military action and shifts in battlefield positions, in Ukraine, long term integration with the West is the most important goal.

Latin America expert Peter Schechter and veteran diplomat Cecile Shea join this week’s Deep Dish to discuss varying opinions on Venezuela’s two claimants to power, Juan Guaidó and Nicolás Maduro.

More Americans consider issues like weakening democracy and political polarization to be critical threats to the United States than foreign adversaries.

“An end to NATO enlargement or withdrawing forces from the east will not stop Putin. Only full support of Ukraine can do that,” writes Ivo Daalder in the Financial Times.

As a year of conflict and crises draws to a close, how can we absorb the news without losing hope in 2023 and beyond?