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Mexico's New President, Modi's Third Term, Biden's Cease-Fire Plan

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World Review with Ivo Daalder

Deborah Amos, Bobby Ghosh, and David Luhnow join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Mexico’s newly elected president, Claudia Sheinbaum
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Global Politics

We’re Still Living in the World That D-Day Made

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World Politics Review
Paul Poast

Paul Poast unpacks how the Normandy invasion shaped international politics in the 20th century and its impact still today.

British World War II veteran John King is greeted by a young girl in Normandy
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US Foreign Policy

How Midwestern states are courting Taiwanese investment

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ChicagoGlobal by AJ Caughey

Despite Illinois's trade ties with Taiwan, other Midwest states have taken steps that Illinois hasn’t to deepen their government’s relationship with Taipei.

Michigan Governor Whitmer with then ROC(Taiwan) Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Jaushieh Joseph Wu, during her visit to Taiwan in March
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Global Politics

Biden Will Deliver a Defense of Democracy To Mark D-Day

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NPR
Ivo H. Daalder

The speech comes as isolationist views are growing, Ivo Daalder tells NPR. "NATO is becoming politicized in a way it never was until this point."

President Joe Biden watches Republican Guards as he arrives in France
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US Foreign Policy

The United States Pursues Its Lithium Independence

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Running Numbers by Karl Friedhoff

The hunt for the key battery component is only the beginning of the story.

Construction continues at the Thacker Pass lithium mine near Orovada, Nevada
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Global Economy

This man may be Chicago's biggest global philanthropist — and you've probably never heard of him

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ChicagoGlobal by H. Lee Murphy

A military veteran and businessman, the founder of DT Global has both a corporate and humanitarian presence in many of the world’s political hot spots.

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John DeBlasio
Global Economy

Far-Right European Takeovers, Rafah Strike, Russia-Ukraine War Update

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World Review with Ivo Daalder

Prashant Rao, Anna Sauerbrey, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

France EU Elections
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Global Politics

The World’s Shifting Populations Will Define International Politics

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World Politics Review
Paul Poast

"Demographic changes will be the key driver of global competition over the next century and beyond," Paul Poast writes.

People rush to catch their train in Beijing to return home for the Chinese lunar new year
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Global Politics

What Does America Want from China? A Possible Partner

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Foreign Affairs
Paul Heer

"There is ample evidence that Xi and the CCP are interested in constructive engagement and peaceful coexistence with the United States," Paul Heer writes.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi
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US Foreign Policy

How Old Town School of Folk Music brings the sounds of the world to Chicago

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ChicagoGlobal by Jack Benjamin

If, as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, "music is the universal language of mankind," then the Old Town School of Folk Music is a great place to become fluent.

People with instruments perform on stage behind standing microphones
Old Town School of Folk Music
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