Commentary and Analysis

If food waste were a country, it would be the world's third-largest greenhouse gas emitter behind China and the US.

Elizabeth Shackelford joins NPR's Simoncast to reflect on her career in foreign policy and the potential of US diplomacy through “soft power.”

What's driving China's rapid nuclear triad expansion? Nuclear expert Tong Zhao joins Deep Dish to explain.

Richard Longworth, author of "Chicago and the World: 100 years of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs," talks with Council President Ivo H. Daalder and former Council presidents John E. Rielly and Marshall M. Bouton.

The Council surveyed US foreign policy experts to learn how AUKUS had such an effect on US-French relations. Dina Smeltz, Sibel Oktay, Paul Post, and Craig Kafura explain in War on the Rocks.

Australians are more concerned about severe weather events than the climate crisis causing them. But is tackling the former alone just putting out fires?

Kim Ghattas, Gideon Rachman, and Carla Anne Robbins join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

How can we stop the rise of domestic terrorism in the United States? Kathleen Belew and Robert Pape look at modern history and politics for answers.

Ten years after the US intervention in Libya and subsequent death of dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Ivo Daalder speaks with Mehdi Hasan on MSNBC about the fallout.

War in Tigray is escalating fast. “We have effective nonmilitary leverage and options in our toolbox and should use them,” writes Elizabeth Shackelford in the Chicago Tribune.