When asked if Sliwa potentially dropping out would help Cuomo, Columbia University professor Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: "Yes, if Sliwa drops out, his voters are likely to want to vote against Mamdani."

“History can offer both guidance and hope: Authoritarians have lost elections before, and they will again,” writes David Shimer, adjunct senior research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

SIPA Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo on how Trump’s foreign policy is ruining American credibility.

The new awards mark an important milestone in IGP’s mission to bring world-class scholarship to bear on the most pressing issues of our time. Five projects, led by SIPA faculty and their collaborators, will explore topics ranging from the geopolitics of space and trade, to the deepening risks of generative AI, financial fraud, and deep-sea mining.

"Missteps by China or resistance from other countries could well thwart Xi’s designs," writes Senior Research Scholar Julian Gewirtz. "For the United States, such setbacks can buy time—until different leadership in Washington once again has a vision of the future built around more than looking out for itself."

According to SIPA lecturer, Laura Scherling, one of the most unsettling data breaches this year was the Tea Dating Advice data breach, underscoring the dwindling amount of safe spaces online.

Professor Jeffry Frieden joins EconoFact Chats to discuss the forces driving a splintering in globalization, and the present and past linkages between domestic politics and international economics.

Liberation reviewed Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia by professors Arvid Lukauskas and Yumiko Shimabukuro: "a bracing, data-rich intervention that punctures the triumphalist narratives still clinging to the region’s growth story."

"Richard Nixon understood as a lawyer — a good lawyer, actually — that he had to at least make justice look blind when he schemed against his enemies," said Timothy Naftali, a Columbia University historian and former director of Nixon's presidential library.