The Case for America to Promote Democracy Abroad

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

The presidents of the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute join  Deep Dish  to explain why the United States must promote democracy abroad.

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Reuters
Global Politics

I am Gita

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Global Food for Thought by Roger Thurow

We all share in the cost of lower education, reduced labor productivity, and escalating health care costs.

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Gates Foundation
Food and Agriculture

Dr. Agnes Binagwaho on Rwanda's health system

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Wait Just a Minute

Dr. Agnes Binagwaho discusses Rwanda's health system.

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Trump's Withdrawal from Syria Didn't Just Abandon the Kurds to Turkey. It Also Shook the Ground under NATO.

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Chicago Tribune
Ivo H. Daalder

For the message is clear: When it comes to the defense of its allies, the United States is now more likely to get out than stay for the fight.

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Missing from 2020: A Real Midwest Jobs Strategy

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The Hill
John Austin

There are very tangible things that the next president can do to fuel growth in the Midwest — from increasing Federal R&D in health, energy, water and mobility solutions to focusing that effort through research-university-hubbed Innovation Institutes.

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Thomas Richter
US Foreign Policy

How the American Public Views China

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RealClearWorld
Alexander Hitch

An important debate has cracked open about the future of the U.S.-China relationship. This was inevitable. But the debate, while increasingly contentious, has been limited to politicians, policymakers, and pundits, largely overlooking what most Americans think.

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A Prize-Winning Peace in the Horn of Africa

Podcast
Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Boston University’s Michael Woldemariam and the Council’s Ertharin Cousin join Deep Dish to discuss the strides made so far by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the steps ahead between Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed
Paul Kagame
Global Politics

Graeme Wood on Islamic State in Syria

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Wait Just a Minute

Journalist Graeme Wood, author of "The Way of the Strangers: Encounters With the Islamic State," takes a minute to discuss the difference between ISIS and al Qaeda, and if ISIS has truly been defeated.

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War Is Not Over: What the Optimists Get Wrong about Conflict

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Foreign Affairs
Paul Poast

The political turmoil of recent years has largely disabused us of the notion that the world has reached some sort of utopian ‘end of history.’ And yet it can still seem that ours is an unprecedented era of peace and progress.

American troops board plane
Reuters
Defense and Security

Six Ways in Which Liberal and Moderate Democrats Diverge on Key Issues

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Running Numbers by Jack Benjamin

Of those who self-identify as Democrats in our 2019 Chicago Council Survey, about half are liberals while the other half are moderate/conservative. There are six key issues for which the two groups have differing opinions.

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Aaron Burden
Public Opinion