Jeffrey Sachs will join a panel of experts to help develop Italy's new curriculum that will place an emphasis on climate change and sustainability.

Shocked by the surge in European populism and nationalism that culminated in the 2016 Brexit vote, Andrea Venzon MPA ’17 and Damian Boeselager MPA ’17 were still SIPA students when they formed a new transnational progressive party called Volt Europa.

Scott Barrett told Newsweek that the whole world needs to get in on reducing carbon emissions in order to stop climate change from becoming permanent. "To keep temperature well below 2 C, global emissions should start falling very soon, and fall rapidly."

It's long been assumed higher-income people spend less time sleeping because they spend more time working. But Jeffrey Shrader says you stand to make about five percent more if you catch some Z's.

Bills introduced to secure U.S. elections are a good step in the right direction, but Jason Healey says there's still more that needs to be done. “What isn’t here is more on basic security features and processes.” 

After reports of Iran injecting uranium into secret government centrifuges came up, Richard Nephew says they are just one step closer to creating nuclear energy. "They’re getting closer and closer to muscle. They aren’t cutting fat right now.”

Stronger winds and drier climates are to blame for the increase in California wildfires, A. Park Williams said, adding California is 3 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than without climate change.

Joseph Stiglitz writes in The Guardian that the free market mentality of trickle-down economics is dismantling democracy. "growth has slowed and the fruits of that growth went overwhelmingly to a very few at the top... rather than trickling down."

Jason Bordoff notes that the modest size of the resource, risk of conflict, and legal obstacles to investment from U.S. sanctions make it unlikely that a U.S. oil major would find it commercially attractive to invest in the Syrian oil sector. 

There are a lot of different ways to do income estimates for the top 400 taxpayers, and they lead to very different conclusions says  Wojciech Kopczuk about Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman's new book, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay.