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Reflect on the year with highlights from the Council's public opinion research and analysis.

It's been a busy 2021. Recap the year with the survey team's analyses of public opinion on the most critical issues at home and around the world.

Dina Smeltz, Craig Kafura, Karl Friedhoff, Brendan Helm, and Alexander Hitch document the ups and downs of the public mood, sharing highlights of their 2020 research.

Karen DeYoung, Steve Erlanger, and Ed Luce join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Bobby Ghosh, Steve Erlanger, and Carla Anne Robbins join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Bobby Ghosh, Gideon Rachman, and Susan Glasser join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Council President Ivo Daalder discusses emerging global stories with The New York Times’ Carol Giacomo, POLITICO’s Matt Kaminski, and the Financial Times’ Philip Stephens.

Ivo Daalder, Steven Erlanger, Susan Glasser, and Philip Stephens examine the week's most important global affairs news.

Journalists Karen DeYoung, Matt Kaminski, and Gideon Rachman joined Council President Ivo H. Daalder to discuss this week's emerging global stories.

Ivo Daalder talks with reporters from some of the world's leading media outlets about the week's most important global affairs news.

Susan Glasser, Ryan Heath, and Ed Luce join Ivo Daalder to discuss what went wrong and what went right for US foreign policy after the September 11 attacks.

Kim Ghattas, Bobby Ghosh, and Nahal Toosi join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Kim Ghattas, Philip Stephens, and Julian Barnes join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Karen DeYoung, Steven Erlanger, and Bobby Ghosh join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Stefan Kornelius, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Ivo Daalder, James Harding, Gideon Rachman, and Carol Giacomo examine the week's most important global affairs news.

Steve Erlanger, Nirmal Ghosh, and Halley Toosi join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Karen DeYoung, Stefan Kornelius, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories, from Afghanistan to the upcoming German elections.

Stefan Kornelius, Peter Spiegel, and Nahal Toosi join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top global news stories.

Steve Erlanger, Bobby Ghosh, and Carla Anne Robbins join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Catch the week's top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development in our Global Food for Thought news brief.

Council Distinguished Fellow and Former Executive Director of the World Food Program Catherine Bertini reflects on why elevating women and girls worldwide matters.

Ahead of President Biden's address on August 31, Elizabeth Shackelford joins Ben Roswell on CBC News to discuss the US’s completed withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The war in Afghanistan has lasted more than 17 years, and the overall situation has improved little over those years.

Ambassador David Scheffer shares his reactions on John Bolton's recent comments on the United States' relationship with Afghanistan.

Bronwyn Bruton and Paul D. Williams join Deep Dish this week to explain what the United States is doing in Somalia and why al Shabaab is a target.

"This isn't Afghanistan, and this isn't Syria. This is a country that's being attacked," says Ivo Daalder on MSNBC. "This is not a proxy war."

A survey from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs highlighting key foreign policy topics that will be covered in the final 2012 Presidential debate.

After ten months of Biden in office, new public opinion data show Americans support most, but not all, of his foreign policy strategy.

Earl Anthony Wayne, a former US ambassador to Mexico, joins Deep Dish to discuss what can realistically be done about migrants.

Ivo Daalder and James Lindsay discuss their new book "The Empty Throne: America’s Abdication of Global Leadership"—a revealing look at Trump’s foreign policy.

Just a few weeks after announcing the exit, the United States is already making progress withdrawing troops and resources from the site of America's longest war.

The Council's Elizabeth Shackelford and Virginia Tech's Amanda Demmer explain how lessons from US military evacuations in South Sudan and Vietnam resonate with the current chaos in Afghanistan.

The recent ICC arrest warrant for Putin has sparked global attention, but what about the children abducted during conflict?

Polling conducted in July for the 2021 Chicago Council Survey found seven out of ten Americans supported the withdrawal of US combat forces from Afghanistan by September 11.

Matt Kaminski of POLITICO, Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times, and Carla Anne Robbins of the Council on Foreign Relations joined the Council’s Ivo H. Daalder to analyze global news.

Why are Ukrainians receiving a warmer welcome from the American public than past refugee groups?

Laura Barrón-López, Catherine Philp, and Philip Stephens join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

American weapons play a key role in the defense strategies of both US partners.