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Allies are not planning for the return of a past iteration of the United States. It would behoove Americans to start doing the same.

The Council’s founders believed that the United States should have a positive vision for international engagement—and that the Midwest had a critical role to play.

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.

Food insecurity plays a critical and complex role in Myanmar's current political turmoil, and has played a similar role in uprisings of the past.

Overshadowed by global trade conflicts, the pending EU-Mercosur trade pact underlines the shifting global trade landscape away from a US-led international trade order.

Survey data shows the American public is more attuned to the view of "The Blob," those working in government, than to President Trump’s views.

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