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News and Event Highlights

News and Event Highlights

IGP Technology & Democracy Initiative

IGP’s Technology & Democracy Initiative convened a panel of scholars and researchers for a conversation about red teaming, a cornerstone of cybersecurity where ethical hackers simulate attacks to uncover vulnerabilities.

Nov 05 2025
Event Highlight
Democratic Resilience

IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Robert Y. Shapiro on the impacts of Zohran Mamdani's mayoral win for the Democrats: "There may be a big push among certain segments of the Democratic Party to try to run more left-leaning candidates."

Nov 05 2025
World Is One News
IGP in the News
Democratic Resilience

SIPA Professor and IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Ester Fuchs on Zohran Mamdani's policies as NYC mayor: "He is positioned very well to move forward on affordable housing."

Nov 05 2025
WABC-TV
IGP in the News
Democratic Resilience

On the Democrats' posture toward Donald Trump: "They are routinely waiting for Trump's actions to have an effect on the electorate," says IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Robert Y. Shapiro, a political scientist at Columbia University.

Nov 05 2025
N-TV
IGP in the News
Inclusive Prosperity and Macroeconomic Performance

Nearly half of the world’s 50 most economically unequal countries are in Africa, according to a new report on global inequality led by the Nobel Prize-winning economist and IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Joseph Stiglitz.

Nov 05 2025
Semafor
IGP in the News
Democratic Resilience

"Sometimes Bush sided with Baker, sometimes he sided with Scowcroft," said historian and IGP Faculty Advisory Board Member Timothy Naftali, who explored the declassified archives. "There was never an instance where Cheney had an outlying opinion and the president sided with Cheney."

Nov 04 2025
Washington Post
IGP in the News
Democratic Resilience

“One of the dangers of Cheney’s theory of the presidency was that someone who didn’t care about the Constitutional balance of power would take advantage of those powers,” says Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs

Nov 04 2025
TIME
IGP in the News
Climate, Energy, and Sustainable Development

CGEP's Jason Bordoff, IGP Faculty Advisory Board member, and Jack Andreasen Cavanaugh, on why Big Tech’s energy problem might prove crucial to fighting climate change.

Nov 04 2025
Foreign Policy
IGP in the News
Rapid Response

IGP hosted a Rapid Response webinar to discuss the future of US-China relations following the meeting between President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump.

Nov 03 2025
Event Highlight
IGP Ann F. Kaplan Women's Initiative

Women’s Initiative Director Jennifer Klein introduced an episode of Vital Voices Live on the launch of former Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin’s new book, Hope in Action.

Nov 03 2025
Event Highlight