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The Future of the US Dollar and a World in Debt

PAST EVENT VIDEO

Jeffrey Garten joins Thomas Friedman to link lessons from the 1971 decoupling of the gold standard to today’s challenges for a public conversation, followed by a private Q&A with Council President’s Club and leadership members.

Foreign Policy

President Biden listens during virtual meeting with Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador from the White House

Mexico-US Ties Under the Biden Administration

PAST EVENT VIDEO Hart Program Series

Mexico’s lead official on North American relations joins the Council for its inaugural program in the Hart Program Series on Latin America.

South Korean naval destroyers sail with the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson

Maritime Competition and America's Global Order

PAST EVENT

Government officials from the US and China meet in Alaska

Why China is Challenging US Superpower Status Now

PAST EVENT VIDEO China's Changing Landscape

World Review

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World Review with Ghosh, Labott, and Rachman

Virtual World Review

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

World Review: AUKUS, Blinken's Grilling, and Germany's Elections

PAST EVENT VIDEO World Review

Steve Erlanger, Nirmal Ghosh, and Halley Toosi join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

World Review: How 9/11 Shaped Our World

PAST EVENT VIDEO World Review

Susan Glasser, Ryan Heath, and Ed Luce join Ivo Daalder to discuss the what went wrong and what went right for US foreign policy after the September 11 attacks.

World Review: After Afghanistan Exit, What’s Next?

PAST EVENT VIDEO World Review

Karen DeYoung, Stefan Kornelius, and Peter Spiegel join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories, from Afghanistan to the upcoming German elections.

Global Cities

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The Post-COVID City

PAST EVENT VIDEO Pritzker Forum on Global Cities

The CEO of United Airlines, the President of Microsoft, the Governor of Tokyo, and other civic and industry leaders from around the world discuss the resilience of cities and how they may revive their social and economic vitality.

Pursuing Equity

PAST EVENT VIDEO Pritzker Forum on Global Cities

View from the ground of four modern skyscrapers

Adapting Governance

PAST EVENT VIDEO Pritzker Forum on Global Cities

Global Food And Agriculture

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Life Lessons from Congress, the Farm, and the Movies, with Dan Glickman

PAST EVENT VIDEO

The former US Secretary of Agriculture discusses the principles that shaped his remarkable career and how they could be an antidote to America’s divisive politics.

Top view of falconer at street food bazaar in Malaysia

Food Identity and Preserving Cultural Heritage

PAST EVENT VIDEO

A panel of chefs and food experts discuss food identity and the intersection of safeguarding cultural heritage and food diversity.

A woman looks at rows of small plants in a growing facility

Global Food Security Symposium 2021

PAST EVENT VIDEO Global Food Security Symposium

In advance of the UN Food Systems Summit, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman, Impossible Foods’ Head of Impact Strategy Rebekah Moses, and other global leaders discuss innovations transforming food systems.

Boxes of food are packed on a pallet waiting to be delivered to families as rural hunger rises due to COVID-19, in Manitowoc, WI

Making Hunger a Priority in America

PAST EVENT VIDEO

The Council's Ertharin Cousin leads a conversation with IL Senator Dick Durbin, Produce Alliance’s Melissa Melshenker Ackerman, and other experts about the USDA’s efforts to address food security challenges.

Wait Just a Minute

Elizabeth Shackelford on Afghanistan

Video Series Wait Just a Minute

Twenty years after the war began, the United States' forces will officially leave Afghanistan on September 11, 2021. What's the argument to leave and why has it taken so long?