Read Dick Longworth's Latest Commentary from The Midwesterner Blog
Read Chicago Council Senior Fellow Richard C. Longworth's latest commentary, "
A Global Revolt Against Globalization," posted on
The Midwesterner blog on May 17, 2013. Longworth is the author of
The Midwesterner, which promotes interstate dialogue and serves as a resource for those interested in the Midwest's ability to navigate today's global landscape.
Longworth is a senior fellow at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and author of
Caught in the Middle: America’s Heartland in the Age of Globalism, on the impact of globalization on the American Midwest. He joined the Council in 2003 as executive director of
Global Chicago after a career in journalism. For twenty years, Longworth was a foreign correspondent for the
Chicago Tribune and United Press International, and was the
Tribune’s chief European correspondent. He has reported from eighty countries on five continents. He also is the author of
Global Squeeze and coauthor of
Global Chicago. Longworth was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, has won the Overseas Press Club award twice, and was a finalist two times for the Pulitzer Prize. In addition, he has won every major national award for economic reporting.
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