On the latest Vis à Vis, SIPA's Ester Fuchs joins Emmanuel Kattan to unpack voter turnout, shifting party loyalties, campaign financing, and what the results could mean for the future of American democracy.

The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation and Uppsala University announced Her Excellency Annalena Baerbock, president of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, as the 2026 Dag Hammarskjöld Lecturer and Medalist.

Columbia SIPA’s Jason Bordoff, founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, weighs in on Trump’s controversial Russian diesel deal, which has drawn bipartisan backlash for potentially throwing Putin a financial lifeline while doing little for American consumers.

With Democrats leading in Senate races in Texas, Iowa, and Ohio, Columbia SIPA Professor and Vice Dean Robert Y. Shapiro says the new polling confirms that “Democrats are very competitive now for getting majority control of the Senate.”

Emphasizing Taiwan’s strategic location is “the wrong justification for the right cause,” writes Columbia SIPA Professor Thomas Christensen, who warns that this could undermine the very deterrence that has kept the Taiwan Strait at peace since 1958.

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Beijing wants its currency to be “the Pepsi to the dollar’s Coca-Cola,” writes Zongyuan Zoe Liu, IGP Senior Research Scholar, and China’s dominance in the green economy could give it just the anchor it needs to loosen the dollar’s grip on global finance.

Germany appears to have constructed a politically successful military Keynesian coalition — though frictions have emerged, writes Jack Snyder.

Power deconstruction “has been the through line of the second Trump administration,” says Columbia SIPA Professor Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, who argues that rebuilding democracy will require its own strategy for shifting power toward workers, tenants, and everyday Americans.

Meenakshi Ramesh MPA-GL ’25 began her social impact career as a part-time volunteer at Pratham. Twenty-five years later, she is leading the organization with decades of experience and fresh perspectives.