Independents who lean toward neither party could play a decisive role in the 2024 presidential election.

November 2, 2017, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Karl Friedhoff and Max Goldsmith, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), President Trump’s skepticism on climate change and decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement is out of step with the American public overall., On June 1, 2017, Presi...

Agriculture has great potential for carbon offsets, but implementation will be complicated.

Hailed as a way to reduce traffic and pollution and to improve city transit systems, cordon pricing exists in several cities around the world. Could it work in Chicago?

In 2022, there were about 170,000 troops stationed outside of the U.S. and its territories, according to the Department of Defense. As of June 2023, there were over 30,000 troops stationed in the Middle East alone, before America expanded its military presence following Hamas' attack on Israel i...

March 6, 2019, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Esteban Guzmán Saucedo , Dina Smeltz , and Craig Kafura, Christian Frausto Bernal/Flickr, Download Report (PDF), This Chicago Council on Global Affairs survey finds that a majority in Mexico now express a favorable view of the United States., Intr...

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Despite its small size, Qatar has historically played an outsize role in negotiating with organizations or countries that the U.S. doesn’t have relations with.

Fifty years ago, US President Richard Nixon traveled to China and established the basis for a normalization of relations between the two powers. Are we due for another transformation?

Faced with a new, less popular monarch, will a growing movement for republicanism accelerate in the Caribbean 'realms'?