“You can’t walk more than two feet at any global conference today without ‘pragmatism’ and ‘realism’ being thrown around as the order of the day,” says Jason Bordoff, a former Obama energy adviser who now runs Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy and serves as an IGP Faculty Advisory Board member.

"The inconsistency [in content moderation] is really powerful for actors who wish to promote extremism on social media. That allows them to find people who may be attracted to the ideologies and recruit them on less moderated spaces," said IGP Affiliated Faculty member Tamar Mitts on CNN.

At the invitation of Pope Leo XIV, Maria Ressa spoke at the Vatican’s World Meeting on Human Fraternity, delivering a message to Church leaders and decision-makers from around the world urging action on information integrity.

At a roundtable hosted by Columbia’s Institute of Global Politics on September 12, Ha’aretz editor-in-chief Aluf Benn analyzed the erosion of Israel’s political guardrails under Prime Minister Netanyahu, the country’s deepening ideological divides, and the uncertain future of Israeli democracy.

Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Dean Keren Yarhi-Milo welcome a new cohort of student scholars, encouraging them to build bridges across ideological divides and grapple with complex questions.

Creating a dedicated U.S. Cyber Force as a new branch of the armed services could transform America’s ability to defend against growing cyber threats. In this new FDD Monograph, IGP Affiliated Faculty member Erica Lonergan and Mark Montgomery outline the current gaps, what a U.S. Cyber Force would look like, how it could strengthen U.S. national security. 

“I find that there’s been confusion between urgency and haste,” Ben Orlove, Columbia professor of international and public affairs and IGP Affiliated Faculty member, told Gizmodo. “Though we recognize the urgency of action, that should never serve as an excuse for incompletely reviewed proposals moving forward.”

President Donald Trump signed an executive order rebranding the Pentagon as the “Department of War." IGP Faculty Advisory Board Member Tim Naftali discusses why the department was renamed and reacts to Trump and Hegseth's reasoning for the change.

IGP Affiliated Faculty member Glenn Denning will serve as Columbia’s main liaison to the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty.

IGP researcher and Columbia SIPA lecturer Jen Weedon, who researches best practices in red teaming AI systems, pointed out that where a red team sits in the organizational chart shapes its incentives.