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The Pandemic-Driven Shift in the US Real Estate Market

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Global Insight by Aaron Masliansky

The rise of remote work has had a dramatic impact on cities like Chicago, which must play to their strengths in order to compete in this new landscape.

Downtown Chicago
Patrick Tomasso
Global Cities

The US Should Welcome Immigrants with Open Arms—and Open Borders

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World Politics Review
Paul Poast

"Expanded immigration is vital to the United States’ future as a major power," Paul Poast writes.

American and California state flags fly behind the US-Mexico border wall
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Migration

Paths to New Prosperity and a Better Politics in Democracies

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Our Towns Civic Foundation
John Austin

Transatlantic leaders can share ideas, tools, and strategies to help bridge economic divides between struggling heartland communities and thriving cities.

Site of Ohio Intel factory
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Global Cities

Netflix’s “The Diplomat”: Pop Culture Gives Diplomacy a Boost

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

"The Diplomat" is Hollywood's take on the foreign service. Deep Dish explores the significance with a career diplomat and TV producer.

Rufus Sewell, left, and Keri Russell pose to promote "The Diplomat".
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US Foreign Policy

Celebrating and Empowering the Next Generation

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Impact Stories by Elizabeth Shackelford

Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford reflects on how the Council helps students dive in.

A back view of graduates during a graduation ceremony.
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US Foreign Policy

Siloed Farmers: Reconciling Information Divides

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Youth in Agriculture: Transforming Local Food Systems

Existing barriers between rural and urban areas, and young and old farmers perpetuates an information divide in agriculture that a young cattle farmer is trying to reconcile.

A young man leads two cows on a dirt road.
Sagar Kulkarni
Food and Agriculture

Asian Americans Are True Internationalists

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Running Numbers by Libby Berry

More so than any other racial or ethnic group, Asian, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Americans want the United States to play an active part in global affairs.

students walk past a display for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at Farmington High School
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Public Opinion

The Conflict Cannot End until Ukraine Is Part of the West

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POLITICO EU
Ivo H. Daalder

“The question is when and how,” writes Council President Ivo Daalder.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Chigi Palace, Government's office, in Rome
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US Foreign Policy

Mexico's GM Corn Ban Is about More Than Biotech

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Global Food for Thought by Kailey Griffith

Mexico's threat to ban GM corn presents an opportunity to re-evaluate agricultural norms in the United States and address inequities in trade.

Central Illinois farmers deposit harvested corn on the ground outside a full grain elevator in Virginia, Ill.
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Food and Agriculture

The Nexus between Collaboration and Agricultural Development

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Youth in Agriculture: Transforming Local Food Systems

Collaboration across generations, communities, and political parties is pivotal to agricultural development and youth engagement.

Two young people examine a plant in a lab. Food and Agriculture