Trump’s latest proposal would cede the United States’ AI advantage, writes Aaron Bartnick, a Non-Resident Fellow at the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy, where he focuses on technology and economic security.

Their paper, “Blended Finance” (cowritten with Thomas Giroux of ETH Zürich), has been named winner of the 2025 Moskowitz Prize at Northwestern University from a field of 101 submissions. For 30 years, the Moskowitz Prize has recognized research that informs effective global practice of responsible finance.

A new study, cowritten by Joseph E. Stiglitz and 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.

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Robert Y. Shapiro, a professor of political science at Columbia University, 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.”

“It indicates a lot of really important things about the movements within the energy sector as a whole, and that direction is clearly toward reduced emissions,” says Jonathan Elkind, senior research scholar at the Columbia University Center on Global Energy Policy.

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 Yumiko Shimabukuro.

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

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"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 Naftali, now a senior research fellow at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.