The University of Chicago Institute of Politics

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29	30	31	1 Fields \| The Rise of the Celebrity Conservative: Non-Traditional Voices in the Movement Vadhan \| Debates: The Hardest Test You’ll Ever Study For	2 Zarivna \| Media, Civil Society & Accountability During Wartime: Mindichgate & Its Consequences Chicago Style-How Chicago Fights Homelessness: From City Hall to the City's Streets	3 Elijah Jenkins Career Workshop	4
5	6 French \| Divided We Fall Sunkara \| The (Right) Populist Alternative Dialogue Dinner with John Dickerson	7 Dickerson \| Mind the Gap Franchetti \| The Interagency: Leading at the Intersection of Strategy, Security & Politics	8 Fields \| A Critical Question: Is Trump Not Being on the Ballot the End of the MAGA Wave? Nope! Vadhan \| Endings, Loss & Showing Up Anyway	9 Zarivna \| The War in Ukraine From the Outside: A Geopolitical Perspective Is Sports Betting the New Pornography?	10 Practitioners in Residence: Enemies to Colleagues (Are we friends now?)	11
12	13 French \| Why You’re Wrong About Your Fellow Americans Sunkara \| Class, Realignment & the Future of Democratic Politics Chicago Style: Is Chicago Transit Derailed?	14 Dickerson \| I’ve Got a Question? Franchetti \| Women in the Military: The Debate Resumes	15 Fields \| Red vs. Blue Reckoning: Navigating Party Identity in a Divided America Vadhan \| On the Trail: A Campaign Simulation IOP in Paris: Shifting Transatlantic Relationships: The Uncertain Future of NATO	16 Zarivna \| Ukraine in March 2026: The State of the War & the State of the Nation	17 Practioners in Residence: Media, Crisis, and Local Government	18
19	20 French \| Why Doesn’t Anyone Go to Church Anymore?	21 American Media Under the Boot: Free Speech, Objectivity and Complicity	22 Whither the First Amendment? From Afroman to the FCC	23	24 Chicago Style: Eat it Up: How Culture and Food Influence Each Other in Chicago	25
26	27 How We Could Vote: Ranked Choice, the Electoral College, and More	28 Faith, Fissures and the Future: Vice President Mike Pence in Conversation	29	30	1	2