Blog Posts

Although the American public doesn't believe the war with Afghanistan was worth the cost, they also think the US should maintain bases in the country.

How can we achieve food and nutritional security in ways that also enhance rural livelihoods, reduce environmental degradation, and boost agriculture’s resilience?

Council experts analyze global public opinion after the WHO officially declared the spread of COVID-19 a global pandemic.

As COVID-19 spreads around the world, Council expert Robert Muggah shares his viewpoints on pandemics, why they are becoming more common, and how cities can help minimize current and future threats.

​A growing body of research shows that resilience in itself may only be part of a of greater opportunity when the risk of weather-related disasters is what holds people back.

Where once there was one Midwest, rising and falling with the industrial era, there are now two Midwests, marching to different economic drummers.

Council survey data shows that support for Elizabeth Warren for president did not expand to working-class people, which was likely her downfall. 

American disapproval rates of US-Iraq war reach record highs.

Each year donors spend billions of dollars on agricultural research initiatives in developing countries in the fight to end hunger. Yet do these well-meaning efforts have the unintended consequence of imposing solutions from the top down?

There appears to be a dawning realization that the agriculture sector may be part of the solution to climate change, rather than a problem to be solved, by drawing down and storing carbon in farmland.