Andrew Kohut and Michael Dimock discuss the findings of their new Renewing America Working Paper.

Despite an extended period of economic difficulty, Pew pollsters Andrew Kohut and Michael Dimock show that Americans' core values and beliefs about economic opportunity remain largely optimistic and unchanged.

Andrew Kohut, founding director of the Pew Research Center, discusses the themes outlined in his forthcoming CFR Working Paper Resilient American Values: Optimism in an Era of Growing Inequality and Economic Difficulty, as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call series.

The national survey on Foreign Policy Matters in 2012 discusses the views of the American public on the United States and its role in foreign policy.

Hector Becerra of the Los Angeles Times identifies the importance of the use of Spanish by speakers at both the Republican and Democratic national conventions as both parties hope to connect with Latino voters.

This meeting is part of the symposium entitled Imagine the Unimaginable: Ending Genocide in the 21st Century, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and CNN.

Steven Kull, Matthew Leatherman, and R. Jeffrey Smith discuss U.S. public views on national defense-spending, as part of CFR's Renewing America roundtable series.

This Pew survey says Americans' perceptions of the job situation, financial markets, and real estate values have become more positive, but things like rising gas prices, for instance, still make public views of current economic conditions stubbornly negative.

Alexander Burns writes that polling numbers are often contradictory, with irrationality transcending both party lines and opinions of the president.

A Pew Research Center polling report shows that the public focus is predominantly domestic and economic, while still keeping a wary eye on Iran and related security issues.

This poll's findings look at small business owners' desire for growth and the challenges they perceive to be holding their businesses back, such as economic uncertainty and weak sales.

This poll, conducted by Shibley Telhami, surveyed three thousand people in Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates in October 2011, assessing attitudes toward the United States and the Obama administration, prospects for Arab-Israeli peace, the impact of the Arab awakening, the outlook for the Egyptian elections, and opinions on where the region is headed politically.

Conducted by the Asia Foundation's office in Afghanistan, the 2011 survey polled 6,348 Afghan citizens on security, reconciliation, economy, and governance to assess the mood and direction of the country.

In this report, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press explains that there is public consensus on federal budget issues in principle, but resistance along partisan lines when plans are put into practice.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon says that while community support for girls education and women's right to work in Afghanistan is actually strong, the challenge for women lies in what comes next for the country.

The latest national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that opinions about global warming have changed little over the past year.

This unprecendented public opinion survey, conducted by the New America Foundation and Terror Free Tomorrow, sheds light on the sentiment of citizens living in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan.

This slideshow summarizes the results of an Arab public opinion poll conducted by the University of Maryland with Zogby International.

In this July 2010 survey report, the Pew Research Center examines Pakistani public opinion of the Taliban and al Qaeda, the United States, and national conditions in Pakistan.

Marcus Noland outlines two recent surveys of North Korean refugees in China and South Korea which found, not surprisingly, that North Koreans privately hold highly critical views of the regime and are rather miserable.