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Cities use migration-focused narratives not only in an attempt to influence global discussions, but also to achieve concrete outcomes for transforming local realities.

Queer farmers are challenging discriminatory legacies in agriculture, and envisioning an agricultural system that uplifts and celebrates LBGTQIA+ people.

African cities are experiencing growing climate-related migration that has the opportunity to unlock their economic, social, and cultural development.

Great power competition is the organizing principle of President Biden’s new National Security Strategy. Is the American public on board?

Just over ten years ago, the world was shaken not by a pandemic but by skyrocketing food prices.

While China might be losing friends in many countries, it still has the support of the Russian public.

Arik Burakovsky, Dina Smeltz, and Brendan Helm find that while experts anticipate changes in the global balance of power in the next 20 years, with China overtaking the United States, they do not expect Russia to come out stronger.

Data from the 2016 and 2020 elections show it’s not just large cities, their suburbs, and university towns that have shifted toward Democrats.

The language of war can be used to bring a nation together in common cause—but when it comes to dealing with a pandemic, all these efforts are necessary.