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Where Are the World's Most Fragile Cities?

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CityLab
Robert Muggah

Climate change, economic inequality, and political unrest are making some of the world's fastest-growing cities dangerously unstable. But even the most fragile places are fixable.

A man walks at the site of the Oct 14 bombings in Mogadishu, Somalia. Global Cities

Responding to Russia's Resurgence

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Foreign Affairs
Ivo H. Daalder

Although there is no question that Moscow's meddling in American elections is deeply worrying, it is just one aspect of the threat Russia poses.

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The Morality of the City

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City Lab
Ian Klaus

In his new book The Ordinary Virtues, the writer and politician Michael Ignatieff reveals the “moral operating systems” that keep cities together.

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The Importance of Race in Attitudes Toward Trade and Globalization

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Global Insight by Coauthors

Ethnic and racial minorities show greater support for globalization. These results indicate that trade is as much of a psychological and social issue as it is an economic issue.

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Global Economy

Is Populism Making a Comeback in Latin America?

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Foreign Policy
Robert Muggah

Having rejected its demagogues just a few years ago, the region is now poised to welcome them back.

Students protest in Medellin, Colombia, on Oct. 12 during a protest in the framework of a general strike. Global Politics

Opinion: Recipe for Creating Zero Hunger

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AgriPulse
Ertharin Cousin

Ending hunger and chronic malnutrition remains within our grasp. However, we must recognize that there is a global reversal of a decades-long downward trend in the number of hungry people.

Ertharin Cousin speaking into a microphone Food and Agriculture

How voters now see Donald Trump's America First agenda

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Financial Times
Ivo H. Daalder

Are the policies touted on the campaign trail losing their appeal?

Donald Trump gives his maiden speech to the UN General Assembly US Foreign Policy

Donald Trump has made liberal internationalism great again

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Washington Post
Daniel W. Drezner

Donald Trump expressed a lot of themes in his inaugural address, but the overriding one was that foreign policy would be conducted through the prism of America first.

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Foreign Policy and the Trump Administration

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C-SPAN
Coauthors

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Wilson Center co-hosted a panel discussion about the results of a Chicago Council survey of public attitudes on foreign policy and the Trump administration.

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Why the Midwest can't afford new cuts to immigration

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Crain's Chicago Business
Coauthors

The Midwest—rusting cities like Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland— has a cautionary tale to tell about cutting immigration: We know from experience that it harms our cities' populations, economies and workforces.

Maxwell Street in 1929. The open-air market on the Near West Side was established in the late 19th century by newly arrived immigrants. Migration