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Event Summary by Richard C. Longworth On the March day in 2010 when the Affordable Care Act finally passed Congress, David Axelrod was in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, watching the voting with President Obama and other officials. As passage neare ...


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The Council will live stream this program at 2:30 p.m. CT today. Does the United States have a responsibility to prevent mass atrocities? According to President Obama, preventing atrocities and genocide is both a core national security interest and a core ...


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Who is Malala Yousafzai’s co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize? Which US state instituted historic measures to counteract climate change this year? Which countries’ ambassadors visited The Chicago Council on Global Affairs this year? If you know the answe ...


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https://www.thechicagocouncil.org/event/david-axelrod-american-politics-0 Richard C. Longworth May 13, 2015 Chicago Council Event SummaryPolicy & Politics Richard C. Longworth ...


Header Image:  Eruope_Landing_Final.jpg Page Header:  Does the US Nuclear Umbrella Still Protect America’s Allies? "One important consequence of the fraying of US alliances over the last few years is the reemergence of concern in allied capitals about ...


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http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/a5230756-0395-11e5-a70f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3bG... Ivo H. Daalder May 26, 2015 Financial TimesGlobal Cities, Policy & PoliticsGlobal Cities, Policy & Politics Ivo H. Daalder ...


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http://thecityfix.com/blog/how-cities-are-shaping-international-relations-julian... May 28, 2015 The City FixGlobal Cities, Policy & PoliticsGlobal Cities, Policy & Politics ...


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Cécile Shea is a nonresident senior fellow on security and diplomacy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. She is the president of Wakaru Communications and a special advisor to the Council’s Next Generation programs. Prior to moving to Chicago, Cecil ...


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In September 2015 Pope Francis will make his highly anticipated first visit to the US as pontiff. With 90% of Catholics and a majority of non-Catholics holding a favorable view of Francis, according to a February 2015 survey by the Pew Research Center, the ...


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http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion/20151001_Self-inflicted_irrelevance_is_harm... Dan Glickman October 1, 2015 Philly.comGlobal Security, Policy & PoliticsGlobal Security, Policy & Politics Dan Glickman ...