"Character is built on the small decisions we make," writes IGP Faculty Advisory Board Member Maria Ressa. "2026 will demand great — even greater — character. Or we lose it all."

In the Journal of Strategic Studies, IGP Affiliated Faculty member Erica Lonergan argues that three factors affect the prospects of civilian deference: secrecy, the relative bureaucratic power of U.S. Cyber Command, and the influence of civilian industry.

IGP Affiliated Faculty member Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: "This is the continuing bad news on health care subsidies, steady high prices, the Epstein documents and the seeming cover-up, and the bombing of boats allegedly carrying drugs is more disruption and not helping, and the same for the ICE arrests of people who are far from violent criminals."

"Donald Trump has wielded power with fewer restraints in the last 11 months than any president since Franklin Roosevelt," said presidential historian and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member Timothy Naftali.

The IGP Student Scholars Program helps prepare Columbia students to understand and find solutions to today's global challenges. Maxim shares his experience in the program and how he's been able to build community and connections beyond the classroom.

A new study, cowritten by IGP Faculty Advisory Board Member Joseph E. Stiglitz and IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Eric Verhoogen, suggests the law has already had a significant impact on hiring in that sector, contributing to 15,000 to 20,000 new jobs.

IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: “[Trump] should say that while inflation today showed the lowest increase in a while, it will take a bit more time, and now the Federal Reserve should have grounds for cutting interest rates further, which can improve other aspects of the economy further. He needs to do it in a more subdued way than his bullying style.”

The next East Asian miracle may not dazzle, but by reframing the narrative from trade-offs to synergies between welfare and growth and addressing the growing social vulnerabilities quietly undermining the region’s economic potential, it can endure as a source of inspiration and resilience, write Arvid Lukauskas and IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Yumiko Shimabukuro.

The systematic Russification of schools in occupied territories aims to wipe out the Ukrainian national identity, writes IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Irwin Redlener.

"If they are going to have a 'fake news wing,' it would be awfully hard for nonpartisan library professionals at the National Archives to swallow," said IGP Faculty Advisory Board Member Timothy Naftali.