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Advocates espouse compounding benefit of immigrant health coverage

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ChicagoGlobal by Jon Asplund

The Healthy Illinois Campaign unveiled a new data review by UIC that lays out the benefits that ripple out from providing health insurance to the uninsured.

Two people hold hands, one wearing an orange hospital bracelet.
Jon Tyson
Global Health

From pollution to solutions: How global cities are tackling poor air quality

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ChicagoGlobal by Renata Sago

As Chicago and other global cities increasingly grapple with poor air quality, solutions to the problem vary by location.

Woman bicycling against the Chicago skyline blanketed in haze from Canadian wildfires
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Global Cities

Underground climate change is slowly sinking Chicago and cities across the globe

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ChicagoGlobal by Nicole L. Cvetnic

We know Venice is sinking. What about Chicago, which accounts for about 234 square miles of land?

An aerial view of Chicago
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Global Cities

Survival of the City: Ed Glaeser on the Future of Post-Pandemic Urban Life

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Global Insight by Coauthors

Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award nominee Edward Glaeser examines the gaps in health care, education, and governance laid bare by the pandemic.

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A Scorching Summer Heats Up the Farmer Health Crisis

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Global Food for Thought by Molly Shields

The summer’s record temperatures have reignited the international farmworker health crisis.

Construction worker Jose Arellano, left, wipes his face as Arellano and Juan Martinez install fence posts along a corn field in Happy, Texas.
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Food and Agriculture

From China to Mexico: Tracing the Deadly Fentanyl Trail

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Deep Dish confronts America’s deadly fentanyl crisis and the struggle to stop the flood of fentanyl from entering the country.

A bag of 4-fluoro isobutyryl fentanyl which was seized in a drug raid is displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration
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Global Health

Another War on Drugs Won't Solve the Fentanyl Crisis

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Responsible Statecraft
Emma Sanderson

Washington should ditch the military rhetoric and refocus efforts on work with China and Mexico, Emma Sanderson argues.

Police and military patrol Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico
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US Foreign Policy

The Global Cost of Childhood Malnutrition

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Childhood malnutrition has lifelong consequences for individuals and the global community. Here’s what you can do to help.

Shyamakali and her children.
Anne Thurow
Food and Agriculture

Embracing Dandelions as Food and Medicine

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Global Food for Thought by Linda Black Elk

Through their connection to traditional food practices, dandelions challenge colonized notions of food security and provide students with the opportunity to reconnect with Indigenous food systems.

A field of dandelions.
Vlad Vasilov
Food and Agriculture

1,000 Days: Revisiting the Mothers and Children of Uganda

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Ten years after The First 1,000 Days book, we revisit Esther and her son Rodgers to see how they are faring.

Esther smiles as she holds her son Rodgers.
Anne Thurow
Food and Agriculture