Commentary

"Disruptions to the Strait of Hormuz do not remain confined to shipping lanes—they propagate through agricultural systems worldwide," Council Distinguished Fellow Ertharin Cousin writes.

The global response to Cuba’s worsening humanitarian plight reveals a growing divide over whether limiting access to food and energy is an acceptable form of leverage or if there is a shared international responsibility for humanitarian intervention.

Council Distinguished Fellow Ertharin Cousin unpacks how the new rules will impact residents across Illinois, including refugees and undocumented immigrants.

The US military captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a large-scale strike. Experts assess what the unprecedented US intervention means for Venezuela, US foreign policy, and regional and global stability.

"It is not just about defining the level of malnutrition or the level of access to food, but is a recognition that . . . measurable numbers of the population have begun to die," Ertharin Cousin says.

Distinguished Fellow and former Executive Director of the World Food Programme Ertharin Cousin on summoning the political courage to intervene in Gaza.

Ertharin Cousin joins Deep Dish to unpack the unfolding hunger crisis in Gaza and explains how calls for Palestinian statehood recognition could reshape the conflict.

“The reality of it is we need to make sure that we’re doing some things differently than what we’ve always done," Ertharin Cousin argues.

Food systems are just as culpable for the accelerating global planetary health, human health, and poverty crises as they are capable of generating the solutions necessary to fix them.

"We didn’t see massive famines last year," says Ertharin Cousin. "But what we didn’t do was invest in what I call preemptive humanitarian response."