Events
Healthy Outcomes

Is global healthcare access improving or worsening? Will proposed budget spending in the United States lead to improved health outcomes for the most disadvantaged populations? The second in our series of Emerging Leader – Young Professionals discussions w ...

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Ben Barber: An Appreciation

Evan Fazio's blog Benjamin Barber (R) at the 2015 Chicago Forum on Global Cities Benjamin Barber was a Sherpa for the global age, adept at scouting the path ahead and leading us where he thought we ought to go. He died too soon and with the job unfin ...

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YP Pub Quiz 2017: Sweet Home (Global) Chicago

Which of Chicago’s sister cities was destroyed and rebuilt after WWII? Which global city mayor made the Council on Global Affairs their first official speech in America? Celebrate the close of our programming year, test your global acumen, and bid at the ...

External Commentary
Four Keys To Renegotiating NAFTA

https://www.forbes.com/sites/phillevy/2017/04/30/four-keys-to-renegotiating-naft... April 30, 2017 ForbesNorth America, Global EconomyGlobal EconomyNorth America ...

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The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation host a special briefing with two of the researchers behind the National Academy of Sciences' report, The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration. 0 Ch ...

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This Week's Reads – Don't Discount the President's Rhetoric

mh_trump-speaking_870x480.jpg Anonymous's blog “Sometimes it’s important to watch what the president does rather than what he says.” That was Senator John McCain’s advice to America’s allies in a recent interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, in which he a ...

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Our New World Order: From Liberalism to Nationalism

Is the liberal international order on the verge of collapse, and what comes next? With the breakdown of mega trade deals, Russian aggression in Eastern Europe, a dented EU system, the unraveling of the Middle East, and the return of an “America First” for ...

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This Week's Reads- Globalization, Inevitable and Unavoidable

mh_shanghai-dock-worker_870x480.jpg Evan Fazio's blog “Globalization,” the Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf wrote in his book-length defense of the idea, “is a hideous word of obscure meaning, coined in the 1960s, that came into ever-greater vog ...