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As extreme weather increasingly uproots communities and economies, leading experts Simon Dalby and Joshua Busby join Deep Dish to predict how climate change will affect foreign policy.

March 22, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Emily Sullivan, NURPHOTO, Download Report (PDF), Both Millennials and Gen Z are more hesitant than their elders to endorse military approaches to foreign policy., Whether it’s using WhatsApp to chat with friends in other countrie...

January 28, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lama El Baz, Charlie Riedel / AP, Download Report (PDF), Most Americans—including a majority of Republicans—favor a range of measures to reverse or adapt to climate change., On the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed ...

October 20, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Lama El Baz, Lindsey Wasson / AP, Download Report (PDF), At the same time, fewer Americans now compared to a decade ago are convinced their country is exceptional., While some observers describe US President Donald Trump’s fore...

October 16, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Karl Friedhoff, Ahn Young-joon / AP, Download Report (PDF), Seven in 10 say the security relationship with Seoul does more to strengthen US national security than weaken it., As the 2024 presidential election nears, the American public is being ...

May 12, 2026, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz and Lama El Baz, Vahid Salemi / AP, Download Report (PDF), But Republicans stand in stark contrast, favoring the Trump administration’s actions in Iran., The US-Israeli war against Iran remains at a stalemate after US President Donald ...

December 18, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Craig Kafura , Lama El Baz , Jordan Tama , and Joshua Busby, Virginia Mayo / AP, Download Report (PDF), Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s aversion to alliances, foreign policy professionals across the American political spe...

At least half of all partisans see government corruption and weakening democracy as critical threats, but they are deeply divided on climate change and immigration.