"We need to make it easier to talk about, because talking about your struggles is often the first step toward getting help," says Karine Jean-Pierre

At New York Comic Con this weekend, Patrick Stewart and Billy Dee Williams said space travel could be a possibility in the near future. Ben Orlove told Space that "space-based research is fundamental" given the impact of climate change.

Karine Jean-Pierre reminds herself of her accomplishments so that others respect her as well: "as a woman, and especially as a black woman, I’ve had to become comfortable with recognizing and articulating my own value"

Cainã Perri, who oversees teacher education initiatives in Brazil for the Lehmann Foundation, spoke at the recent Columbia MPA-DP seminar on “Khan Academy in Brazil: Challenges to Help Teachers Embrace Technology.”

A roundtable event held at SIPA discussed how feminist policies have the power to enact policy changes in developing institutions and countries. 

White House policy has been reduced to tightening sanctions and targeting individuals close to the Maduro regime writes Christopher Sabatini

Sachs and the Columbia team argue for a Global Coffee Fund and state that such a fund would multiply, “at a far greater scale,” the existing public-private efforts, or sustainability efforts devoted to individual supply chains.

"The protests raise a common dilemma for nondemocratic rulers: Is it better to repress or appease demonstrators?" asks Timothy Frye.