When Shams Frough graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago, he had two major goals: to make a little money before starting medical school and to support weavers in Afghanistan. The Taliban...

In the five years since Audrey Cheng (Medill ’15) has graduated, she co-founded a software development and data science school with campuses in Kenya and Rwanda, worked with the World Bank to run a 20-week...

Christine Lagarde had sharp words for economic policy makers around the world. “Restricting trade is a clear case of economic malpractice,” the director of the International Monetary Fund said...

Everyday media coverage, extremely dismaying or overly understating social media posts and the circulation of “unknown” facts made Ebola a part of our daily routines. However, compared to other aspects,...

An economist and author spoke Wednesday on human rights and foreign aid in a talk titled, “The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor,” based on his book of...