June 18, 2026, 8:00 AM - 7:00 PM CST Chicago Council Conference Center

Our experts examine trending global news topics via op-eds, podcasts, videos, analysis, and blogs.

Content covering countries in the Middle East and North Africa, including Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Palestine, Yemen, and more.

Nirmal Ghosh, Carla Anne Robbins, and Steve Erlanger join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

November 29, 2022, RESEARCH Working Paper by Benjamin Leffel and Michele Acuto, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), Cities are key actors in the fight against climate change. Progress made in data collection on city involvement in global governance is crucial to their success., The impact of cities f...

June 16, 2014, RESEARCH Report by Rob Paral, Lucas Ludwig, Download Report (PDF), This report examines how immigrants offset population decline and an aging workforce in Midwest metropolitan areas., Immigration is a demographic lifeline for metropolitan areas throughout the 12-state Midwest regio...

June 16, 2016, RESEARCH Report by Andrea Durkin, Vaishnav Chogale, Download Report (PDF), India is forecast to experience the largest increase in urban population of any country in the world. India's cities could have another 404 million mouths to feed by the year 2050., Executive Summary, Cities...

Dr. Alaa Murabit discusses gender equality.

Ivo Daalder, James Harding, Gideon Rachman, and Carol Giacomo examine the week's most important global affairs news.

Ivo Daalder, Karen DeYoung, Steven Erlanger, and Peter Spiegel examine the news during US President Biden's first week in office.