“Some of Ukraine’s strongest defensive positions are in Donetsk, and ceding those defenses would position Russia to reattack in the future from a much more advantageous position,” said Columbia SIPA Senior Research Scholar David Shimer, who led Ukraine policy on the White House National Security Council during the Biden administration. Ceding the region, he said, would be a “massive concession.”

"A total withdrawal from Donetsk would create vulnerabilities for Ukraine militarily because some of its most robust defenses are there, former U.S. officials and experts say. “Ceding those defenses would position Russia to reattack in the future with more of an advantage,” said Columbia SIPA Senior Research Scholar David Shimer, a former National Security Council official during the Biden administration.

"Humanitarian assistance—not just food but also water, shelter and medical care that meets the needs of all Gazans—can and must get back on track," writes IGP Faculty Policy Director Jacob J. Lew.

"I would not make any big deal of this," Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek. "With so many polls being done, results that look like outliers or noteworthy changes need to be treated as possible due to normal sampling error, where you can get what looks like an outlier one out of twenty times."

IGP hosted a Rapid Response examining the impact of university settlements on higher education, civil society, and democracy.

IGP researcher Jen Weedon writes: "The critical question isn't just 'What don't we know yet about how this AI might fail?' but also 'What do we already know, and that we're choosing not to address?'"

"This isn’t the first time the BLS commissioner aroused presidential ire," writes IGP Faculty Advisory Board Member Tim Naftali. "But at least Nixon faced constraints."

IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: "This is very plausible. Historically in the US, we have had Vice Presidents being the obvious candidate once incumbents presidents have served their terms, or sometime later."

Columbia SIPA professor and IGP Affiliated Faculty member Robert Y. Shapiro to Newsweek: "The Democratic primary polling is much too early and all we are seeing is name recognition for past presidential candidates and ones in the news lately in a visible way."

ROOST, a non-profit organization incubated at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics, is dedicated to building scalable, resilient, and open-source safety tools for the AI era.