Commentary and Analysis

Anton La Guardia, David Luhnow, and Nahal Toosi join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

As the climate crisis grows, the business of water is increasingly important — and the lakefront city of Chicago could be one of its most valuable global leaders.

Council polling finds the lowest level of support in recent years—from both political parties

Support for such a move has fallen to the lowest level in more than a decade of Council surveys.

"Far from being an idealist driven to spread democracy, commerce, protection of human rights or some other value, Biden is a practitioner of realpolitik," Paul Poast argues.

Bobby Ghosh, James Harding, and Carla Anne Robbins join guest host Deborah Amos to discuss the week's top news stories.

Council polling finds support for Trump’s border wall and use of troops, but wide opposition to his mass-deportation proposal.

Candace Rondeaux uses Council-New America data to analyze what demographic shifts might mean for the future of US foreign policy.

Across Chicago, murals and other public artworks depict the city’s immigrant communities and our connections to cultures around the globe.

In today's media landscape, you’d be quicker to identify the Bears’ backup left tackle than the world's fastest man right now.