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Big Ideas and Emerging Innovations
Highlighting approaches, technologies, and ideas that have the potential to radically advance global food security.
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Guest Commentary – Climate Change: How a Thirst for Soy Puts Latin America in the Eye of the Storm
Ginya Truitt Nakata of the Nature Conservancy on the environmental impacts of increasing global demand for soy.
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This Week's Reads- Can Liberal Democracy Survive?
Today, liberal democracies across the world are beset by unprecedented crises—from Brexit in the United Kingdom, to political turmoil in South Korea and Italy, to authoritarian crackdowns in Turkey. What happened?
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National Elections and the New American City-State
As the country splinters along geographic and ideological lines, post-election divisions could portend the rise of a new American city-state movement, with mayors and city councils likely to intensify efforts to independently pursue progressive local agendas.
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#TBT: That Time We All Feared Chemical and Biological Weapons
In the spirit of Throw Back Thursday, Running Numbers is digging out its archived polls to look back at America’s foreign policy feelings of old. This week, we’re looking at Council data on Americans' perceptions of the threat posed by chemical and biological weapons in the late 90s and early 00s.
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Could a US-Russia 'Reset' Change Public Distrust?
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Why McDonalds and United Airlines are Moving to the City
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One More Question with Moshe Ya'alon
Former Defense Minister of Israel Moshe Ya’alon visited the Council on December 7, 2016. We asked him: What is your priority for US-Israel relations under the next administration? See what he said.
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Deep Dish: You Wanted Workers, You Got People
For some, social integration is a new challenge caused by globalization and cultural change. For others, inequality and segregation have long been strains on civil society. In this episode, Michael Nutter, former mayor of Philadelphia, and Kamal Al-Solaylee, journalist and author of Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone), discuss social inclusion in the 21st century with Deep Dish host Brian T. Hanson.