USAID announces sweeping changes toward localization addressing questions about the efficacy of development programming modalities.

Increasing climate crisis events necessitate bolder government response. The Growing Climate Solutions Act is one Congressional answer that advocates say benefits both farmers and the planet.

With Washington prioritizing deal-making over competition, Beijing’s confidence is growing—and the risk of miscalculation is rising. Could China use America’s time-out from strategic competition to surpass it economically, technologically, and geopolitically?

Steve Erlanger, Bobby Ghosh, and Elise Labott join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs will honor Ambassador Cindy McCain, David J. Vitale, and Chris Myers at the 23rd Annual Global Leadership Awards Dinner.

March 3, 2015, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Andrea Durkin, Download Report (PDF), Andrea Durkin provides recommendations from a Council report aiming at addressing food security in Africa and US-Africa trade relations., A new framework for US-Africa trade relations focused on agriculture and food can...

In October, I visited Seoul with a delegation of Chicago Council Emerging Leaders on a Korea Foundation-funded trip led by Karl Friedhoff, the Council’s Korea specialist.

Chicago's transit system may need to make cuts and raise fares after COVID relief funds phase out, but riders won't likely see a systemic collapse like Venezuelan commuters experienced in the 2010s.