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How Life in Our Cities Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Foreign Policy
Robert Muggah

The pandemic is transforming urban life. We asked 12 leading global experts in urban planning, policy, history, and health for their predictions.

An empty cafe in Paris in the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
David Mapletoft
Global Health

Kim Jong-un Rumors

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WGN Radio
Karl Friedhoff

Friedhoff discusses the health of Kim Jong-un, the possibilities and rumors and how they could all play out with Dean Richards' Sunday Morning

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US-Iran Tensions Escalate Amid COVID-19

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Brookings' Suzanne Maloney and the German Marshall Fund's Ariane Tabatabai join Deep Dish to examine tensions between the United States and Iran and the future of the US-Iran standoff.

Iranian ships harass US Navy
Reuters
Global Health

Publics Prioritize Disease Control Efforts Over Economic Re-opening

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Running Numbers by Coauthors

An update on global public opinion on COVID-19 reviews survey results from countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Gulf States.

People in masks sit on a subway train
Shawn Ang
Global Health

Changing the Rules of International Relations - Paul Poast on COVID-19

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University of Chicago
Paul Poast

Paul Poast discusses how COVID-19 will change the global economy, US-China relations and the World Health Organization.

Paul Poast speaks about COVID-19. Global Health

​Land Grant Model Inspires Modern Day Approach During COVID-19 and Anticipated Global Food Crisis

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Global Food for Thought by Janet Fierro

The land grant model must adapt to address the needs of society. Among the most critical of these needs is one of the most basic; the need for food security.

Jerrycans, used for food storage.
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Food and Agriculture

How the Council is Responding to the Shutdown  

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Global Insight by Iain Whitaker

On March 12, the offices and conference center at the Council closed, and all in-person events were cancelled, for an indefinite period.

Conference center at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Global Health

Israel's New Government, Afghanistan Peace Process, US-Iran Confrontations

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World Review with Ivo Daalder

Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune, Carol Giacomo of The New York Times, and Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times joined Council President Ivo Daalder analyze the week's global news.

Benjamin Netanyahu and Mike Pence shake hands
Matty Stern
Global Health

Who Failed in the Coronavirus Response? A Look at the Timeline

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Chicago Tribune
Ivo H. Daalder

There is little doubt that the WHO was slow in responding to the danger represented by the emergence of a potentially new virus in China and that it was too willing to accept Beijing’s statements of what was happening. It should have known better.

President Donald J. Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, delivers remarks at a coronavirus update briefing Monday, March 16, 2020,
The White House
Global Politics

Special Edition: COVID-19 Lessons from New Zealand

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Axios' Rebecca Falconer joins this special edition of Deep Dish to explain New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s COVID-19 response and how the government’s actions might influence the upcoming general election in September.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
Reuters
Global Health