Blog entry
Rural Illinois’ Reason for Reform

mh_pumpkin-farm-workers_700x461.jpg Daniel Kibuuka's blog Pumpkins harvested at a pumpkin farm. REUTERS/Nigel Roddis Keenes, Illinois is home to 83 people. Their median age is 60.5. Their per capita income was just $9,034 in 2000. The town’s seven sl ...

Events
American Leadership at a Crossroads

The 2016 presidential election campaigns have presented Americans with contrasting visions of America’s future. At a time of heightened global insecurity voters must decide what role the United States should play in maintaining global order and promoting ...

Events
How Nations Survive and Thrive: Lessons for the Next President

We will live stream this event at 6 p.m. CT   During the heated 2016 presidential campaign―with America’s global leadership increasingly challenged and its domestic politics gridlocked―voters may have the impression that the country faces almost insurmoun ...

Events
Election 2016 and the Global Women's Movement

We will live stream this program at 12:20 p.m. CT   A growing body of evidence demonstrates that improvements in the status of women and girls also drive the prosperity and security of families, communities, and nations. In recent years the US government ...

Events
Obama's Foreign Policy Legacy

We will live stream this program at 6 p.m. CT   Foreign and domestic opponents have been quick to criticize Obama for his perceived hesitancy in international affairs. From the Arab Spring to ISIS, increasingly strained relations with China and Russia, an ...

Blog entry
Globalization’s Political Earthquake

hp_clinton-warren-stronger-together_560x320.jpg Laura Lucas Magnuson's blog Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (R) after being introduced by US Senator Elizabeth Warren at a campaign rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. June 27, 2016. ...