News and Event Highlights
News and Event Highlights
SIPA Professor and IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Ester Fuchs speaks about New York City's mayoral election and the poll's favorite candidate, Democrat Zohran Mamdani.
IGP Affiliated Faculty Members Jason Healey and Erica Lonergan comment on the Trump administration's firing of Gen. Timothy Haugh, commander of US Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency.
The Nobel Prize-winning economist and IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Joseph Stiglitz said the report, commissioned by the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, found inequality growing in more than 8 in 10 of the world’s countries.
The U.S. and China agreed to a trade "truce" last week. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Julian Gewirtz, a senior China policy official during the Biden administration and an IGP Senior Research Scholar, about what's at stake.
According to Julian Gewirtz, former senior director for China affairs on Biden’s National Security Council and IGP Senior Research Scholar: “The meeting between President Trump and President Xi has been widely interpreted as a return to the status quo, but unfortunately for the US, it’s worse than that.”
Drawing on data from militant and hate organizations around the world, SIPA Associate Professor and IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Tamar Mitts shows how differing moderation standards across platforms create safe havens that allow these actors to organize, launch campaigns, and mobilize supporters.
At an IGP Women’s Initiative roundtable, researcher Tresa Undem discussed her new report on Gen Z men and gender norms.
IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Camille François, president of ROOST and SIPA assistant professor of practice of international and public affairs, emphasized the importance of keeping pace with the evolving capabilities of AI, stating: “As AI becomes more powerful, security tools and fundamental security research must evolve just as rapidly – and they must be accessible to everyone.”
“What’s clear is they have become increasingly bold in exerting leverage and they are happy to pocket any and all U.S. concessions,” said Julian Gewirtz, IGP senior research scholar.
Sweeping federal budget cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other pivotal programs are putting pressure on already-strained city budgets.