Commentary and Analysis

From technocracy to critical pragmatism in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Could the pandemic lead to a more advanced and inclusive form of urbanism?

With countries locking down and opening up and locking down again, it has become especially hard to anticipate if and how we can move—now and in the future.

The Chicago Council’s polling team examines public opinion on COVID-19 from the United States, Japan, South Korea, Canada, France, the UK, Italy, and Israel.

Recent years have tested the resiliency of farmers with trade wars, catastrophic floods, and now the COVID-19 pandemic, but farmers are #StillFarming.

This week the world passed the 11,836,900 million case mark, with over 544,231 deaths attributed to COVID-19.

Stefan Kornelius of Süddeutsche Zeitung, Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times, and Carla Anne Robbins of the Council on Foreign Relations discussed the week's global news.

Better water management is crucial to global food and nutrition security.

Historian Brenda Gayle Plummer joins the Council's Brian Hanson to discuss how the US can learn from our history of racial injustice in order to make future foreign policy decisions.

An update on global public opinion on the COVID-19 pandemic reviews survey results from countries in North America, Europe, and Asia.