During a Q&A session at the Economic Club of Chicago, President Barack Obama addressed the epidemic of nativism sweeping the nation and warned about what might come of it, according to a reporter from Crain's who was at the event. While discussing the way the speed of change has created an unease in the country, he observed that "nothing feels solid, and that "there's something in us that looks for simple answers when we're agitated." He went on to laud the free press as one of the reasons this country has survived.