“I don’t think this president is really that enamored of being self-deprecating. This would be an opportunity for him to ask Dennis Miller to write material for him, but I think he will ask Stephen Miller instead,” said senior research scholar Tim Naftali on the White House Correspondents' dinner.

Adrien speaks with two professors in the International Security and Diplomacy concentration about the rise in AI in academia. 

"The take-away here is not the low rating, but that it continues to be low in the face of success at the southern border and what so far can be considered a military success. He is looking like a major drag on his party's prospects in the midterms, and his promises regarding lower prices and a thriving economy have been a major disappointment," says professor Robert Shapiro.

Four SIPA teams participated at an annual competition on tackling global policy challenges around fragmentation, democracy, and mobility.

Björkegren will contribute research on “AI for Science and in Low Income Countries.”

Nonya spoke with Catherine Day MIA ’27 to reflect on her journey to SIPA and how her experiences have shaped her path in international security. Read more about what she shared!

Maria Ressa, CEO of Rappler, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and Co-Chair of the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI accepts the Champion of Global Leadership Award from Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly, on April 8, 2026.

It's time to debate how to make sure tech serves values most people share—such as autonomy, fairness, humanity, writes adjunct associate professor Daniel Dobrygowski.

"His attack on the Presidential Records Act is an attempt at post facto vindication for having taken public property to Mar-a-Lago," said Timothy Naftali, the former director of the Nixon Presidential Library.

Trump’s threat — that a “whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again” — nearly six weeks into a war that he started, was of a different order and shouldn’t be dismissed as just a “Trump-being-Trump moment,” Timothy Naftali, a presidential historian at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, told The Atlantic. “That’s a no-go zone.”