Commentary and Analysis

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.

Beyond government and nonprofit workers, an army of legal experts has stepped in on a pro bono basis to help newly arrived asylum seekers get their bearings here in Chicago. Crain's brings you closer to two of them.

Yasmeen Abutaleb, Nirmal Ghosh, and Prashant Rao join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

As the humanitarian toll in Gaza continues to climb and fears of a wider war grow, Americans are wary of direct military involvement in the conflict.