“I don’t think the adding of oil from Venezuela is a game-changer for the U.S.,” said IGP Faculty Advisory Board member Jason Bordoff, who worked as the senior director for energy and climate change on the National Security Council during the Obama administration. “But it could be a game-changer for Venezuelans.”

Nationwide field experiment co-led by IGP Affiliated Faculty member Robert Metcalfe reveals climate data influences search, bidding, and purchasing behavior across the housing market

IGP Faculty Advisory Board member Jason Bordoff discusses the aims by President Trump to rehabilitate the infrastructure and oil production in Venezuela. He also discusses the administrations’ aims behind its’ operations in Venezuela, and its’ implications for China, which is also a big importer of Venezuelan oil.

IGP Affiliated Faculty member Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: "This is a good issue for Hochul and Mamdani since it speaks directly to the severe problem of child care affordability for families with working parents. Mamdani promised it and it is a good issue for Hochul to take up for her reelection. Since the benefit would go to workers with children needing day care, these are deserving people who are under financial pressure."

IGP, CGEP, and ILAS hosted a Rapid Response webinar to examine the future of Venezuela, Latin America, and energy markets following the recent military operation to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores.

"We're going to have to see in the coming weeks and months and years whether there is, in fact, a stable transition to a democratically elected government," IGP Faculty Advisory Board member Jason Bordoff told NPR. 

IGP Affiliated Faculty member Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: "The low popularity rating, especially falling off among Republicans, is of concern—more so for the Republican Party as the midterm elections approach."

"Born in Caracas, I am a U.S. federal judge," writes IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow Roy Altman. "Millions of exiles around the world hope this is the end of a decades long nightmare."

"For the good of the country, Mr. Trump should rediscover his instinct for military restraint," writes Jon Finer, former IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow and CGEP Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Washington’s long-term interests require a smooth political transition in Caracas, not short-sighted mercantilism, writes Jason Bordoff, IGP Affiliated Faculty member and founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.