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

September 22, 2021, RESEARCH Book by Richard C. Longworth, A dual history, of a century of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and of the foreign policy battles and debates as they paraded across the Council's stage., The Council came to life in 1922 in a Chicago dominated by isolationism. It l...

May 15, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Lama El Baz, Jehad Alshrafi / AP, Download Report (PDF), Republicans support US backing for Israel until its military objectives in Gaza are achieved, while majorities of Democrats now oppose it., The two-month ceasefire between Isr...

July 17, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Lama El Baz , Heela Rasool-Ayub , Candace Rondeaux , and Christopher Shell, Ohad Zwigenberg / AP, Download Report (PDF), Majorities across all racial groups prefer that the United States remain impartial as fighting between Israel and...

Fifty years of Chicago Council on Global Affairs polling reveals significant reservoirs of cross-party agreement and a strong base of public support for a more cooperative approach to world affairs.

Consensus on how long to provide economic and military aid to Ukraine appears to be weakening as the war enters its tenth month.

May 2, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, Christian Chavez / AP, Download Report (PDF), Of the eight policies included in a Council-Ipsos survey, not one is supported by a majority of both parties., Some recent surveys have found that immigration has climbed over the past year ...

The US public supports meeting with the leaders of Russia, China, North Korea, Cuba, and more.

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

August 15, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Craig Kafura, Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP, Download Report (PDF), In a 21-point shift, 51 percent of Republicans now favor providing US military aid to Kyiv., As President Donald Trump prepares to meet with Russian President Vlad...