Commentary and Analysis

Stefanie Bolzen, Prashant Rao, and Andrew Roth join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

"When the US inaugurates Donald J. Trump as its 47th president, the country and world will be very different because of it," Ivo Daalder writes.

A recent survey offers a look at how experts think a Trump or Harris victory will impact US foreign policy moving forward.

The Council's Ivo Daalder joins Gideon Rachman to discuss the potential threat to US democracy if Donald Trump wins the US presidential election.

American evangelical Christians demonstrate a unique affinity for the nation of Israel, highlighted by their views of the ongoing war in the Middle East.

A win for the former president would surely further galvanize the bloc’s populist parties and encourage their normalization—much as it did in the US.

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

The phrase only serves to highlight the shortcomings of his last presidency, Paul Poast argues.

"My parents instilled in me the sense that the world contains many evil people—but is full of good people, too," Ivo Daalder writes.

The Levada Analytical Center’s Stepan Goncharov joins Council Research Assistant Lama El Baz to explore recent survey findings.