Commentary

Presidential candidates and the President are overstating Americans’ desire for a full-scale retreat from the Middle East.

Seriously addressing the region’s plastic apocalypse will require moving beyond blunt moves such as plastic bag bans.

In mainstream media outlets, Millennials have spent the last decade on a multi-industry killing spree. Now Millennials, along with neighboring Gen X and Gen Z, are coming for your politics.

What does the American public think of the American intelligence community and its efforts at global surveillance?

We may never know if the spread of the new virus could have been prevented by earlier, concerted action. But the fact that China chose secrecy and inaction turned the possibility of an epidemic into a reality.

Our Field Notes series explores how food systems innovation and agricultural research and development can empower farmers and feed the world.

Gus Hart Visiting Fellow Rosa Anaya joins Deep Dish to discuss her work rehabilitating inmates and gang members in El Salvador with Catholic Relief Services’ Second Changes.

Kelly Magsamen, former National Security Council director for Iran under US presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, takes a minute to answer questions on Iran, its proxies, and whether the US should support anti-regime protests.

While Republicans share a similar political worldview overall, Trump and Non-Trump Republicans disagree on key policies for immigration, climate change, and nuclear programs.

In October, I visited Seoul with a delegation of Chicago Council Emerging Leaders on a Korea Foundation-funded trip led by Karl Friedhoff, the Council’s Korea specialist.