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A Crisis Management Expert’s Advice on Handling Coronavirus

A Crisis Management Expert’s Advice on Handling Coronavirus

May 21, 2020

Our society has always relied on leaders to effectively manage crises. But with the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging society, it’s more important than ever to understand what effective leadership should loo...

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How Students and Schools Can Recover From Coronavirus, with Elaine Allensworth

How Students and Schools Can Recover From Coronavirus, with Elaine Allensworth

May 12, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on our students. As we move into the summer, schools will need to understand the best way to address these issues.To understand what students have lost and ho...

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Trump, Coronavirus and the Cost of Ineffective Government, With William Howell

Trump, Coronavirus and the Cost of Ineffective Government, With William Howell

Apr 30, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the most profound challenges in our world. One of the most prominent has been governmental dysfunction. As director for the Center For Effective Government at th...

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How Coronavirus Is Exposing Our Racial Disparities, with Monica Peek

How Coronavirus Is Exposing Our Racial Disparities, with Monica Peek

Apr 21, 2020

One of the most tragic aspects of the coronavirus outbreak has been the disproportionate effect COVID-19 has had on communities of color in cities around the country. Assoc. Prof. Monica Peek of the ...

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Coronavirus Shows Why We Need To Rethink Health Care, with Kate Baicker

Coronavirus Shows Why We Need To Rethink Health Care, with Kate Baicker

Apr 03, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak has devastated many sectors of our society, and brought many of the issues we were facing before the pandemic to the forefront. This is especially true of health care. Prof. ...

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What Rats Can Teach Us About Empathy and Racism, with Peggy Mason

What Rats Can Teach Us About Empathy and Racism, with Peggy Mason

Mar 10, 2020

Why do we feel empathy for some people, but not others? Where does this feeling of empathy come from? These questions have been the focus of one University of Chicago neurobiologist’s career. And to f...

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Why the Coronavirus Could Send China’s Economy Back to the 1980s With Chang-Tai Hsieh

Why the Coronavirus Could Send China’s Economy Back to the 1980s With Chang-Tai Hsieh

Feb 25, 2020

The outbreak of the coronavirus in China is a global tragedy. While much of the attention has been on the disease itself, many global experts have been focusing on the economic side-effects. Some econ...

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Why The Doomsday Clock Is Closer To Apocalypse Than Ever With Rachel Bronson

Why The Doomsday Clock Is Closer To Apocalypse Than Ever With Rachel Bronson

Feb 12, 2020

Since its inception following World War II, the Doomsday Clock has measured our time until apocalypse in minutes. This year, for the first time, the clock set our time to midnight in just seconds. Rac...

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Vladimir Putin’s Number One Enemy With Bill Browder

Vladimir Putin’s Number One Enemy With Bill Browder

Jan 27, 2020

University of Chicago alumnus Bill Browder’s story sounds like the plot of a Hollywood thriller—except it’s all true. He just wanted to be a businessman, but his experience as a foreign investor in Ru...

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How Google and Facebook Are Ruining Capitalism, with Luigi Zingales

How Google and Facebook Are Ruining Capitalism, with Luigi Zingales

Jan 13, 2020

University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales often says that only an immigrant like himself can really appreciate American capitalism. In his native Italy, Zingales says what you know and what you d...

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