Commentary and Analysis

Bobby Ghosh, Nahal Toosi, Giles Whittell and join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Cover crops help prevent soil erosion and can increase farmers’ yields — but, despite widespread use overseas, they haven’t caught on much yet in the Midwest.

Recent polling shows Turks have become more favorably inclined toward the European Union and NATO, while attitudes toward Russia and China have grown more negative.

A plurality of Kenyans express somewhat or very positive opinions about the economic influences of outside state actors in their country.

Trump’s reelection will redefine US power, Daniel Drezner writes.

Susan Glasser, James Harding, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

We have four years to find out whether policies Washington pursues on the global stage are the product of who is in office or of the country’s position in the international order, Paul Poast writes.

"When the US inaugurates Donald J. Trump as its 47th president, the country and world will be very different because of it," Ivo Daalder writes.

In her first year as head of the Buffett Institute, Deborah Cohen talks us through the role of global affairs at Northwestern, in Chicago, and beyond.

For proof, stop by tasting rooms scattered across downstate Illinois, where you'll find visitors sampling Chambourcins and Vignoles, to name a few.