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In this Chicago Council on Global Affairs blog Craig Kafura explains Millennials’ lack of enthusiasm for drones.

Ravi Agrawal, Catherine Philp, and Gideon Rachman join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

"The Diplomat" is Hollywood's take on the foreign service. Deep Dish explores the significance with a career diplomat and TV producer.

Jamil Anderlini, Catherine Philp, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Pakistan's military leaders lauded the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan this week. But will Pakistan's domestic threats—from a shaky economy to a rise in domestic terrorism—threaten the country's stability as a result of new leadership next

Will Biden shift Saudi Arabia from a “pariah” to a partner – should he? Experts Martin Indyk and Sarah Leah Whitson join Deep Dish to discuss.

The anniversary of the Taliban's return to power has reignited a debate about how best to support the Afghan people.

Over a million Ukrainian citizens have fled to other European countries. African, Asian, Caribbean nationals living in Ukraine may not be able to do the same.

Despite public divisions over US aid to Ukraine, support for taking in those fleeing the Russian invasion remains unchanged since March.

New Chicago Council-Ipsos polling finds large, bipartisan majorities in support of evacuating and relocating to the United States their Afghan allies and others in danger from the Taliban.

Why are governments across Africa working with the Wagner Group and what does this mean for peace and stability on the continent? Elizabeth Shackelford and Federica Saini Fasanotti discuss.

Journalists from some of the world’s leading media outlets join Council President Ivo Daalder to discuss Russian bounties on US soldiers, what’s next for Hong Kong, and US isolation as travel bans exclude Americans.

Ryan Crocker, who served as a US ambassador, joins Deep Dish to discuss America’s relationship with Iran and Iraq.

An essay about food insecurity and child hunger by Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Roger Thurow.

Harvard University's Stephen M. Walt joins Deep Dish to explain America's foreign policy failures since the end of the Cold War.

Our weekly roundup the top news and research in food, agriculture, and global development.

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Deborah Amos, and Yaroslav Trofimov join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

The presidents of the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute join  Deep Dish  to explain why the United States must promote democracy abroad.

Council President Ivo Daalder discusses the end of the war in Afghanistan with WGN's Paul Lisnek.

In his first speech as National Security Advisor, Bolton threatened to sanction International Criminal Court (ICC) judges, bar them from traveling to the US, and use US courts to prosecute them.

Robert Ford and Tamara Cofman Wittes join the Chicago Council on Global Affairs’ Deep Dish podcast to dissect the Trump administration’s withdrawal from Syria.

"The inevitability of the outcome does not make it any less tragic, but the tragedy does not make the decision to withdraw wrong," Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford explains.

"Afghanistan was indeed a failure of US foreign policy," Paul Poast writes. "But it wasn't a failure of the Biden administration."