blog_floodedwaters_reuters_560x320.jpg Kim Heys's blog This interview by Michael McCarthy originally appeared on Newsy. "In the city of Chicago, per-capita carbon emissions are actually lower than in the suburbs of Chicago," said Karen Weig ...
Laura Lucas Magnuson's blog mh_forum-inequality-cities-700x400.jpg “Are successful cities inevitably victims of their own success?” asked Financial Times ’ columnist Edward Luce to begin the urban inequality panel at this year’s Chicago Forum on Gl ...
Evan Fazio's blog A woman passes the skyline of the central business district in a public housing estate in Singapore. REUTERS/Edgar Su The world is entering a new age of anxiety. Globalization and disruptive technologies are changing job markets in ...
Kevin Clifford's blog The 2016 Summer Olympics will begin in Rio tomorrow. In the months leading up to their kickoff, there has been much discussion around what effect the games will have on a global city with notoriously high social and economic ine ...
Laura Lucas Magnuson's blog Christ the Redeemer is seen through Olympic rings. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado There has been no shortage of news coverage highlighting the challenges Rio de Janeiro faces as it prepares to host the first-ever Olympic Games in S ...
Kim Heys's blog CNN’s Fareed Zakaria joined a Council audience on September 8 to discuss America's international leadership. Before the event, we asked him what question he wished the audience would ask. "I wish somebody in the audien ...
mh_phone_protest_700x442.jpg Kim Heys's blog By Iain Whitaker, Assistant Director, Leadership Programs Brexit may have surprised many, but it occurred against a backdrop of growing resentment toward mainstream politics across the western world. The d ...
Daniel Kibuuka's blog Argentine Foreign Minister Susana Malcorra discussed progress toward gender equality around the world with a Council audience last month. We sat down one-on-one with her to inquire what question she hoped the audience would ask. ...
Evan Fazio's blog Immigration and national security have been salient topics in this year’s election, but until now they’ve been conspicuously absent from the presidential debates. With both topics set for discussion in the third debate, vice preside ...
Laura Lucas Magnuson's blog Carolina Trivelli, former Minister of Development and Social Inclusion of Peru, spent a week in Chicago as the Council’s 2016 Gus Hart Visiting Fellow. We sat down one-on-one with her to ask about her biggest takeaway from ...
