This special CGEP blog series, featuring six contributions from CGEP scholars, analyzes the potential impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) across a range of sectors.

Jason Healey and Tarang Jain MIA '25 write: "Attackers in cyberspace have long held system-wide advantages. Fighting back requires measuring progress."

Peter Clement has published a chapter, "How Putin Turned Foreign Policy Success into Strategic Defeat," in a new edited volume, Failure. Russia Under Putin (Brookings Institution Press, 2025).

Such letters play to Trump’s desire for deference — and his preference for the sort of fawning behavior that sometimes comes with diplomacy, said Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian and senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

"A cyber culture that exists in an inhospitable broader military culture may impede the integration and coordination of cyber and conventional operations on a battlefield," Erica D. Lonergan and Jack Snyder write.

"It looks like Newsom would like to enter the presidential race. He has been getting visibility in taking on Trump and taking his shot on the homelessness issue where he could be vulnerable," Robert Shapiro told Newsweek.

IGP's Jon Finer and David Shimer: "The United States must continue to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression, and as the Trump administration seeks more in return, Ukraine should help the United States turbocharge its own innovation."

The war with Iran shows why hopes for energy independence are inadequate, writes Jason Bordoff.

Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek when asked if Republicans could ride the momentum of this win until midterm elections: "This will clearly allow Trump and the Republicans to declare a 'win' -- and if had failed they would have been in disarray at least temporarily."