Data suggest that Americans accept some foreign civilian casualties as a necessary cost to counterterrorism, but Republicans and Democrats differ on willingness to use lethal force.

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February 10, 2021, RESEARCH Report by Ivo H. Daalder , Chuck Hagel , Malcolm Rifkind , and Kevin Rudd, REUTERS, Download Report (PDF), A task force, cochaired by Chuck Hagel, Malcolm Rifkind, and Kevin Rudd with Ivo Daalder, argues that fraying American alliances and a rapidly changing security e...

September 16, 2019, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Ivo H. Daalder , Karl Friedhoff , Brendan Helm , and Craig Kafura, Download Report (PDF) Download Data (ZIP), Findings show a majority of Americans reject ideas of the United States retreating from the world, abdicating internati...

Is a pernicious form of economic inequality the inevitable consequence of becoming a globally powerful city?

June 20, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Craig Kafura, Evan Vucci / AP, Download Report (PDF), The gap between Democrats and Republicans on America's NATO commitment has reached an all-time high in Council polling dating back to 1974., As the NATO summit approaches on June...

Each year donors spend billions of dollars on agricultural research initiatives in developing countries in the fight to end hunger. Yet do these well-meaning efforts have the unintended consequence of imposing solutions from the top down?

If, as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, "music is the universal language of mankind," then the Old Town School of Folk Music is a great place to become fluent.