Commentary and Analysis

France's presidential election offers fresh insight into the relationship between post-industrial regions and partisan politics.

Robert Muggah studies the global problem of unregulated US firearms, which are over 40 percent of all reported arms exports globally over the past five years.

Samuel Kling analyzes the new challenges shared mobility (such as app-based ride-hailing and e-bikes) has faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"The rampant spread of climate misinformation and disinformation has potentially dire implications for the Amazon Basin," cowrites Robert Muggah in the Washington Post.

Geographically targeted economic development strategies can serve as an antidote to political extremism in formerly industrial regions.

"Ukraine’s extraordinary riches in energy, minerals, and agriculture are a prize for the Kremlin," writes Nonresident Senior Fellow Robert Muggah in Foreign Policy.

Ahead of Arbor Day, Nonresident Senior Fellow Karen Weigert discusses efforts in Chicago to create more wetlands and plant trees with WBEZ’s Reset.

A new study reveals the place-based grievances stoking right-wing populism in German industrial regions.

Nonresident Fellow and Emerging Leader alumnus Endy Zemenides shares his perspective on global cities and Cyprian independence with Makis Provatas.

“Transatlantic effort to accelerate economic change in industrial heartland regions has huge implications,” cowrites John Austin in the National Interest.