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

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

It is not just cities, but also their local and global supply chains, travel networks, airports and specific neighborhoods that are sources of contagion.

COP15 set new targets for protecting ecosystems, but funding, implementation, and a lack of global attention to biodiversity give pause for Chris Morris.

Mike Kelleher joins the Chicago Council on Global Affairs to explore potato disease and explain the historic breakthrough for a durable and safe solution.

Majorities of South Koreans cite low birthrates in South Korea and North Korea’s nuclear program as larger threats than China's economic or military power.

Director of Global Cities Research Sam Kling writes in La Cahiers on the history leading to the vilification of cities and density early in the pandemic.

Like many policy challenges, the COVID-19 crisis is exposing deep-seated political and epistemological divisions, fueled in part contestation over scientific evidence and ideological tribalism stoked in online communities.

Council staff share how travel has shaped their worldview.

Working for a nonprofit that serves thousands of immigrants in Chicago each year, Sara McElmurry understands firsthand what immigrants can offer the city if offered access to opportunity.

New survey results suggest that President-elect Biden will have to work hard to cultivate bipartisan buy-in for efforts to rein in the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

“Viruses don't respect borders and neither do their knock-on effects,” Elizabeth Shackelford writes in the Chicago Tribune. “An uncontrolled outbreak in a country of 1.4 billion people is a crisis for all.”

The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the quality of governance and competence of the world’s leaders. When politicians and civil servants fail to deliver, they quickly lose credibility and legitimacy.

"Both cities and citizens have often shown that they can adapt rapidly under crisis conditions," the Council's Non-resident Senior Fellow Michele Acuto writes with Dan Hill in the Conversation.

In many of the new and growing jobs, higher skill requirements can best be met by providing workers with more extensive and affordable post-secondary education opportunities.

While the 25th Amendment to the Constitution deals with the transfer of power in the event of the president’s incapacitation, no such mechanism exists for members of Congress.

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.

Could the pandemic lead to a more advanced and inclusive form of urbanism?

Far from merely reflecting an unequal distribution of economic means, rising inequality comes with a range of toxic side effects, many of which the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief.

Samuel Kling analyzes the new challenges shared mobility (such as app-based ride-hailing and e-bikes) has faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.