Patel's essay won honorable mention in the Council's America at 250 High School Essay Competition.

Alliances have long been one of America's greatest strategic advantages. At 250, the United States must redefine its partnerships for a transformed geopolitical and technological era.

The Trump administration rejects the post-Cold War international order and sets out a new vision in its National Security Strategy. At the Doha Forum, world leaders reckoned with its impact on long-standing alliances and its implications for war and peace.

Ken Moriyasu, Catherine Philp, and Prashant Rao join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Steven Erlanger, Bobby Ghosh, and Carla Anne Robbins join Council CEO Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Ride along with University of Chicago professor Paul Poast as he walks us through the Chicago sites that shaped global affairs.

Like global cities before them, many ambitious secondary cities are escaping their isolated orbits and redefining the hierarchy of the global urban cosmos.

As the country splinters along geographic and ideological lines, post-election divisions could portend the rise of a new American city-state movement.

American religious groups have spent millions exporting homophobia to the East African nation.