Commentary and Analysis

The Kyrgyz community in Chicagoland is small, but its economic footprint is expanding. New Kyrgyz businesses in the service industry, logistics, and shipping are bridging Illinois and Central Asia.

"In many respects, both Ukraine and Israel are offering quintessential examples of a combatant winning the battle, but losing the war," Paul Poast writes.

Deborah Amos, Jamil Anderlini, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Over the past 12 months, our pollsters tracked public attitudes on everything from the war in Ukraine to conflict in the Middle East.

Americans fleeing climate-change driven droughts, fires and floods will exceed the Great Migration. Better policies will produce a stronger and healthier city.

How would you explain Chicago’s business culture to folks who have never been to the U.S.? Here’s how one expert does it.

Kissinger’s approach to foreign policy led him to advocate for policies whose moral grounding was at best dubious, Paul Poast argues.

Ryan Heath and Giles Whittell join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Exporting comedy, though, is not without its risks.

"If there’s one thing the two sides agree on, it’s that they disagree on some fundamental issues," Paul Poast writes.