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The American economy in 2026 presents a contradictory picture: inflation has cooled, yet prices remain stubbornly high, and unemployment has risen even as some industries struggle to hire. What do ...

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" You can easily overheat the economy in the short run before the magic of the productivity has arrived," said Austan D. Goolsbee, President & CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on the imp

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"You can't compare the 14 paragraphs that they just signed with the Iranians with the 159 pages of the JCPOA," said New York Times correspondent David Sanger on a special Deep Dish live episode rec...

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In this special Deep Dish LIVE episode, Leslie Vinjamuri sits down with New York Times White House and National Security Correspondent, David Sanger, who recently spoke with President Trump about t...

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"The Chicago Council on Global Affairs has been polling Americans for more than 50 years very consistently about their attitudes on foreign policy," Council President & CEO Leslie Vinjamuri said a

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Alan Greenspan, who led the Federal Reserve for nearly two decades, died this week at the age of 100. "Greenspan's public life—beginning in the late '60s when he advised Nixon, ending in 2006 when...

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" The only thing we can do is continue to work and to strive for the things we hope to see in the world," said @nytimes columnist Jamelle Bouie last week at the Council's America at 250 Global Foru...

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The Chicago Council on Global Affairs brings together the people, perspectives, and expertise needed to navigate the most consequential questions of our time — from alliances and Middle East policy...

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China's annual Summer Davos begins June 23, and the meeting comes at a complicated moment: consumer demand is weak, manufacturing is booming, and tensions with the United States and Europe are risi...

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China's annual Summer Davos meeting comes at a complicated moment: consumer demand is weak, manufacturing is booming, and tensions with the United States and Europe are rising. Simon Rabinovitch, B...

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The United States and China dominate the conversation about global power, but they aren't the whole story. "I truly think a new order is gradually being born, one that is much more pluralist, many...

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The world's great powers still dominate the headlines, but they may not be the only countries shaping what comes next within the international order. Anne-Marie Slaughter joins Deep Dish to discuss...

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As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, the source of its global power and influence is under review both at home and abroad. On June 18, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs will conven...

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"I think if an alien landed on Earth and looked at that history, it would not find it unreasonable for a sovereign country to conclude that a very good way to assure one's security is to develop a ...

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As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, the international order it championed for nearly eight decades has come under extraordinary pressure. All aspects of the US global role are under r...

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Nuclear tensions are at the forefront of international diplomacy this month as State Parties gather in New York for the 2026 Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the lan...

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“From a defense strategy and policy perspective, what should the US be doing right now?" Council President & CEO Leslie Vinjamuri asks Michèle Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Polic

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"Putin is becoming marginally less popular [at home]," Council President and CEO Leslie Vinjamuri tells CNN International. "Momentum should be on Ukraine's side, if only Europe and the United State...

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Can America’s allies still count on the United States? As the Trump administration pulls troops from Europe and reshapes America’s defense strategy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Mic...

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"There was a time when the US government could actually accomplish really big things, and I think one of the sources of malaise these days . . . is the sense that we've lost that ability to actuall...

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