Ester Fuchs, Columbia SIPA professor and IGP Affiliated Faculty member, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss the New York City mayoral race and what it could mean for education in the city.

Beijing thinks it holds all the cards as Trump attacks allies, writes senior research scholar Julian Gewirtz.

Maria Ressa — professor of professional practice at Columbia SIPA and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member — discusses her work “to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.”

IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow Wally Adeyemo, who was a key architect of Russia sanctions in the Biden administration, said Trump should move quickly to take advantage of relatively low global oil prices and ramp up economic pressure on China for its support of Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

In The Origins of Inequality, and Policies to Contain It, Joseph Stiglitz draws writings from across his five-decade-long career into a broad analytical framework that describes what causes and perpetuates inequality.

The scholars will be publishing research, holding events and roundtables, and working with faculty and practitioners to help ensure that academic research can best inform public policy choices.

President Donald Trump’s approach to the Jeffrey Epstein case has frustrated many of his own supporters, fueling growing demands for the appointment of an independent investigator.

How do world leaders make decisions at critical moments? In Inside the Situation Room, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Columbia SIPA Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo bring together academics and policymakers to bridge the gap between theory and practice and offer insight into what happens behind the curtain. 

The past two months have witnessed a remarkable spike in warfare involving nuclear powers. These clashes are the latest examples of an overall rise in conflicts that carry risks of nuclear escalation. First, nonnuclear powers are attacking nuclear powers in unprecedented and aggressive ways. Even more concerning, nuclear powers are directly trading blows. These trends raise concerns that the eight-decade moratorium on large-scale war between nuclear powers has ended.

Former White House Russia expert David Shimer calls Trump’s weapons plan for Ukraine a “positive step forward.” But former NATO Ambassador Ivo Daalder says, “We’ll have to see how long that lasts.”