Former US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter and Tanvi Madan of the Brookings Institution explain what you need to know about the ongoing crisis between India and Pakistan.

Experts James Dobbins and Douglas Lute discuss whether and how an endgame might take shape in America's longest war.

Douglas J. Feith, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the George W. Bush administration, and Aaron David Miller, an analyst on Middle Eastern issues at the Department of State, discuss the future of US-Israel relations.

May 12, 2026, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, Damian Dovarganes / AP, Download Report (PDF), As Trump and Xi meet in Beijing, majorities say they would favor a deal that lowers tariffs in exchange for larger agricultural goods purchases by China., This month, US President Donald T...

December 10, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura , Debi Jin , Christina Chen , and Kuan-chen Lee, Chiang Ying-ying / AP, Download Report (PDF), Americans and Taiwanese see US power as superior to Beijing’s, and China’s rise as a major threat to both countries. Yet Americans r...

Recent history suggests that when the United States leads, others follow. And when it retreats, others take cover.

February 21, 2022, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Toby Dalton , Karl Friedhoff , and Lami Kim, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), Public opinion data finds robust support for a domestic nuclear weapons program in South Korea., Once a topic for the political fringe, acquisition of nuclear weapons ...

January 24, 2018, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Lily Wojtowicz , and Stepan Goncharov, Pedro Szekely, Download Report (PDF), Although the US public supports maintaining or increasing US sanctions against Russia, the Russian public does not think the sanctions are a critical thre...

Where once there was one Midwest, rising and falling with the industrial era, there are now two Midwests, marching to different economic drummers.