There is wide support for Russia sanctions, protecting allies after invasion

U.S. actions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — including sanctions and protecting NATO allies nearby — find wide, bipartisan support from Americans. But Americans also voice concern about the conflict widening further. And so those who plan to watch President Biden’s State of the Union address say the […] Read more »

A Test for Biden, a Test for Democracy

Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine confronts President Joe Biden with complex challenges at a time when he is already beleaguered—but it also presents him with an opportunity for a reset on the core foreign-policy promise he made to voters during his 2020 campaign. As a candidate, Biden offered voters not […] Read more »

The allure of ‘strong and wrong’

‘Strong and wrong beats weak and right’ — that was former President Bill Clinton’s shrewd analysis 20 years ago of the Democrats’ failure to make gains in the first midterm election of the George W. Bush administration. The year was 2002, and Bush was still polling relatively high a year […] Read more »

Republicans and Democrats alike view Russia more as a competitor than an enemy of the U.S.

Amid tensions between the United States and Russia over a possible military invasion of Ukraine, Republicans and Democrats are largely in agreement about the threats posed by Russia, according to a new survey by Pew Research Center. The survey was conducted Jan. 10-17, prior to the U.S. putting troops on […] Read more »

A Foreign Policy for the Middle Class—What Americans Think

… As the president wrote in the 2021 Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, “America is back. Diplomacy is back. Alliances are back.” Do the American people believe that America is back? And do they support the policies laid out in the Biden administration’s Foreign Policy for the Middle Class? The […] Read more »