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Reporters from leading media outlets joined Ivo Daalder to discuss Brexit, the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Greece vs. Turkey, and the pandemic's effect on the economy.

Susan Glasser, James Harding, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

The New York Times’ Steve Erlanger, the Financial Times’ Philip Stephens, and POLITICO’s Nahal Toosi discuss emerging global stories with Council President Ivo Daalder.

Budget cuts, global crises, and a disengaged US, Deep Dish explores the UN at a pivotal moment and whether it can still deliver.

US politics, public opinion, and global implications.

Expert Phillip Alpers joins a special live edition of Deep Dish to discuss global solutions to the American epidemic of gun violence.

Bronwyn Bruton and Paul D. Williams join Deep Dish this week to explain what the United States is doing in Somalia and why al Shabaab is a target.

Young people refuse to take a back seat to their future, so they are getting engaged in global food and agriculture.

Find out how this Eastern European poster child for democracy backslid into autocracy, and what lessons it holds for the rest of the West.