Commentary

If the international community does not respond to the coronavirus pandemic by creating new global structures to deal with such outbreaks in the future, it will be guilty of criminal neglect.

Where once there was one Midwest, rising and falling with the industrial era, there are now two Midwests, marching to different economic drummers.

Council survey data shows that support for Elizabeth Warren for president did not expand to working-class people, which was likely her downfall. 

Arye Carmon, founding president of the Israel Democracy Institute, takes a minute to explain why Israel is holding elections for the third time in a year.

In this episode of #AskIvo, Council President Ivo Daalder looks at three big issues rising to the surface in German politics on the eve of her departure.

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.

Four in ten Americans (38%) see the development of China as a world power as a critical threat, in line with how Americans have felt about China’s development since 2004.

In this episode of #AskIvo, Council President Ivo Daalder looks at why Putin's move to extend his political power should have caught no one by surprise.

Rochelle Terman and Paul Poast join Deep Dish to debate the two competing options for prodemocracy movements - "America first" and "Spider-Man."

Experts discuss the odd pairing of Austria's conservatives and climate activists and the lessons for the larger realignment of left-right politics in Europe.