USAID: Good Riddance or Great Loss? A Counterpoint Event
1212 E. 59th Street, Chicago, 60637
Oct 27, 2026
5:30pm
– 6:45pm
CST
Was the demise of USAID a global tragedy or a reflection of the agency’s obsolescence? Former deputy director of National Intelligence Will Ruger laid the intellectual foundation for the Trump administration’s position against foreign aid. David Lammy, former Foreign Secretary of the United[...]
Paris is Burning (and the Rest of Europe too)
5707 S Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, 60637
Nov 03, 2026
12:30pm
– 1:30pm
CST
France has been roiled by widespread student protests, school blockades and a severe fiscal crisis. In Germany, the traditional centrist parties are collapsing under the surge of the far right. Housing shortages and other economic woes have left Spain in equally turbulent times, and its Prime[...]
Post-Midterms Debrief
1212 E. 59th Street, Chicago, 60637
Nov 05, 2026
5:30pm
– 6:45pm
CST
What the heck just happened? Unpack the surprises, the lessons learned and the roadmap to 2028. Featuring Faiz Shakir, senior advisor to Bernie Sanders, Lakshya Jain who covers polling and political data at the Argument Magazine and Patrick Ruffini, IOP Pritzker Fellow and conservative pollster.[...]
Arts and America at 250: We stand at the intersection of creativity and politics
915 E. 60th St., Chicago, 60637
Nov 06, 2026
12:30pm
– 1:45pm
CST
Artists have always responded to great inflection points in American history, and the 250th anniversary of our nation, at a particularly polarized time, is no different. Like art at the moment of the bicentennial, which carried its own fraught politics, artists across the performing and fine arts[...]
A Conversation with A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher of the New York Times
1212 E. 59th Street, Chicago, 60637
Nov 10, 2026
5:30pm
– 6:45pm
CST
In his role as publisher of one of the last remaining national legacy newspapers, A.G. Sulzberger has been at the center of every important topic in journalism today, from the threat of AI – The New York Times has sued OpenAI over its use of millions of articles without permission – to the Trump[...]
Data Centers and Our Communities
1212 E. 59th Street, Chicago, 60637
Nov 12, 2026
5:30pm
– 6:45pm
CST
No topic over the last several years has galvanized Americans across the political spectrum like the rise of data centers in their communities. A new AP-NORC/EPIC poll found most Americans are concerned about the impact of data centers on electricity prices, water supply, and power outages. The[...]
_779b3e1c2fb2b81988d6619ecb206038.jpg)
_779b3e1c2fb2b81988d6619ecb206038.jpg)
_779b3e1c2fb2b81988d6619ecb206038.jpg)
_779b3e1c2fb2b81988d6619ecb206038.png)
_779b3e1c2fb2b81988d6619ecb206038.png)