In this blog post from our "Field Notes" series, Jacqueline Hughes discusses the sustainability of food systems.

If, as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, "music is the universal language of mankind," then the Old Town School of Folk Music is a great place to become fluent.

Each year donors spend billions of dollars on agricultural research initiatives in developing countries in the fight to end hunger. Yet do these well-meaning efforts have the unintended consequence of imposing solutions from the top down?

Several large, Chicago-based firms, including Aon and Illinois Tool Works, have expanded into or relocated to Ireland since 2021—but that’s only half the story.

Both the United States and Germany are seeing evolving economies in their respective "rust belts," formerly robust engines of the industrial era.

As the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement heads toward its first review in 2026, Julián Ventura shares what’s at stake for the region’s economies.

Craig Kafura explains what foreign policy experts think about the denuclearization of North Korea.

July 24, 2023, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Lama El Baz , Dina Smeltz , Denis Volkov , and Stepan Goncharov, AP Photos, Download Report (PDF), Russians report limited impact of Western-imposed sanctions and continued support for the war in Ukraine., In a unified effort to curtail Russia’s ...

January 15, 2026, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Lama El Baz , and Craig Kafura, Download Report (PDF), Majorities also oppose using US troops to overthrow governments in Cuba or Colombia, occupy Venezuela, and gain access to the natural resources of other countries., Following t...

The Barbados Plan and other climate finance proposals gained momentum at the United Nations' COP27 summit, argues Chris Morris