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How Brexit Could Impact Chicago And The Midwest

In the News
WBEZ
Cécile Shea

Brexit became official on Friday. Reset takes a look at what the United Kingdom's departure from the European Union might mean for Chicago and the Midwest.

Brexit signs seem outside of Westminster, London.
John Cameron
Global Economy

President Moon Jae-In Handled the Coronavirus Well, but Can He Win South Korea's April Elections?

In the News
National Interest
Karl Friedhoff

If this election is indeed to be a referendum on Mr. Moon’s leadership, he enters that test at his strongest point in sixteen months.

Moon Jae-in takes the presidential oath at the National Assembly, May 10, 2017. Global Politics

A Future for the European Union After the Pandemic?

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Global Insight by Karin Larson

With the loss of Angela Merkel, will the EU survive COVID-19, which is yet another institutional and existential blow? ​

Flag of European Union on top of German Reichstag
Christian Lue
Global Politics

What the US Can Learn from the Global Responses to COVID-19

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

POLITICO’s Ryan Heath joins Deep Dish to explains the lessons the United States can learn from countries around that world in the effort to contain COVID-19.

Colorful double exposure of US Coronavirus COVID-19 cases
Brian McGowan
Global Health

The COVID Wake-Up Call

In the News
Project Syndicate
Robert Muggah

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.

Coronavirus cases in the United States mapped out. Global Health

Midwestern Voters Aren't Ready for Revolution

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Global Insight by Richard C. Longworth

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

View of the exterior of a factory in the midwest
Lucas Ludwig
Global Politics

Ivory Tower Democrat Voters Will Miss Elizabeth Warren

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Running Numbers by Coauthors

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

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren speaking with attendees at the 2019 National Forum on Wages and Working People
Gage Skidmore
Global Politics

Arye Carmon on Israel's Elections

Video Series
Wait Just a Minute

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.

Picture of Arye Carmon Global Politics

What Happens to Germany after Merkel Is Gone?

Video Series
#AskIvo

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.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel walking away from camera
REUTERS
Global Politics

China's Secrecy Has Made the Coronavirus Crisis Much Worse

In the News
Chicago Tribune
Ivo H. Daalder

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.

Policemen wearing masks patrolling Wuhan Tianhe Airport during coronavirus outbreak
China News Service
Global Health