Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Susan Glasser, and Giles Whittell join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

September 22, 2021, RESEARCH Book by Richard C. Longworth, A dual history, of a century of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and of the foreign policy battles and debates as they paraded across the Council's stage., The Council came to life in 1922 in a Chicago dominated by isolationism. It l...

May 5, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura and Sam Dong, Damian Dovarganes / AP, Download Report (PDF), Large majorities of the public view international trade as good for the US economy, job creation, and people like them., A week after announcing his “Liberation Day” tariff...

A plurality of Kenyans express somewhat or very positive opinions about the economic influences of outside state actors in their country.

September 9, 2019

August 22, 2024, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz, Carolyn Kaster / AP, While most Democrats favor taking an active part in world affairs, Republicans remain divided., As Democrats meet in Chicago to officially nominate Kamala Harris and lay out their platform for the 2024 election, ...

February 25, 2009, RESEARCH Report by Catherine Bertini , Dan Glickman , and Robert Paarlberg, Download Report (PDF), Recommendations for how the Obama administration and Congress can restore America’s leadership in the fight against global hunger and poverty., Executive Summary, The Chicago In...

Recent surveys show a rise in American skepticism of the Trump administration’s approach to domestic and foreign policy. The Council explores where they stand on the economy, immigration, alliances, and more.

In reshaping its approach to asylum and refugee resettlement, the United States is signaling a departure from the principles it once championed and risking erosion of international norms.