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Russians and Americans seem to sense a global alignment of democracies versus autocracies, and both publics fear a nuclear exchange.

The Council’s 2019 Survey establishes that retreating, relinquishing leadership, and abandoning alliances is not what the American public has in mind.

Amid a divisive election cycle, surveys show the US public is worried about the implications of political polarization and eroding democratic infrastructure.

Republicans are focused on inflation and immigration ahead of the November election, while Democrats emphasize abortion policies and democracy.

Both Millennials and Gen Z are more hesitant than their elders to endorse military approaches to foreign policy.

Rochelle Terman and Paul Poast join Deep Dish to debate the two competing options for prodemocracy movements - "America first" and "Spider-Man."

Meanwhile, about half say North Korea's nuclear program is a critical threat.

The world's democracies need a way to fight back against coercive economic actions by authoritarian governments, argue Ivo Daalder and Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Find out how this Eastern European poster child for democracy backslid into autocracy, and what lessons it holds for the rest of the West.