While the public believes nuclear weapons are an effective tool in deterring aggression, less than half say they make the country more secure.

Public opinion data show relatively warm feelings between the United States, Mexico, and Canada.

American disapproval rates of US-Iraq war reach record highs.

Many have come to term the generational divide around climate change beliefs the "global warming age gap"—and many more are deeply concerned about its implications for climate change policy.

Recent polling on South Korea's Moon Jae-in may be less encouraging than it seems.

September 9, 2022, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Libby Berry, Canva, And the ideological split between parties continues to widen, new Council polling shows., Key Findings, More than two-thirds of Republicans identify as conservative (77%)., Just over half of Democrats identif...

Polls show an American public deeply divided along partisan lines in their interpretation of the events, who is to blame, and what should be done as a result. 

Of those who self-identify as Democrats in our 2019 Chicago Council Survey, about half are liberals while the other half are moderate/conservative. There are six key issues for which the two groups have differing opinions.

July 17, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Lama El Baz , Heela Rasool-Ayub , Candace Rondeaux , and Christopher Shell, Evgeniy Maloletka / AP, Download Report (PDF), Majorities across the American melting pot support continued US aid to Kyiv., In April, President Joe Biden sig...

October 28, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Karl Friedhoff, Korean Central News Agency via AP, Download Report (PDF), The public is open to resuming talks with Pyongyang under certain conditions and sees benefits from trade with Seoul., The US-South Korea alliance remains one of the most ...