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A decade ago this week, South Sudan declared independence. But the hope and optimism of statehood quickly evaporated—just like international attention and support.

While most support providing medevac services to injured peacekeepers, the public is divided over backing a peacekeeping force militarily.

In the book, "Chicago and the World - 100 Years of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs," Richard Longworth tells the dual history of a century of the Council and of the foreign policy battles and debates as they paraded across the Council’s s

More so than any other racial or ethnic group, Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Americans want the United States to play an active part in global affairs.

More than half also say the decline of democracies around the world, foreign interference in American elections, and the conflict in the Middle East pose critical threats to vital US interests.

Asian, Hispanic, and Black Americans are more likely to view climate change as a threat than Americans as a whole, data show.

Views on immigration levels, pathways to citizenship, and more differ across various racial and ethnic subgroups of Americans.

Nirmal Ghosh, Gideon Rachman, and Nahal Toosi join Council President Ivo Daalder to review the news of the week.