The WTO core still holds, but members must use this crisis to push reform, writes Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow.

Asialink and the Asia Institute present the 2025 Southeast Asia Oration, with Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa, Inaugural IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow.

Maria Ressa — professor of professional practice at Columbia SIPA and IGP Faculty Advisory Board member — Addresses the National Press Club of Australia.

IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: "Bessent is engaged in partisan wishful thinking, counting on the Supreme Court to uphold executive power...The exception of emergency power here is a stretch—what emergency? The lower courts have seen this. Luckily for Trump, the tariff has appeared to have marginally affected prices and jobs so far, but this is all poised to get worse."

Professor and IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Joseph Stiglitz, who will lead South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's taskforce to combat extreme wealth inequality, explains that "inequality has widened to extremes that threaten democracy itself and should be a concern of all of us; the profound rise in the discontents of mismanaged globalisation which in many places has contributed to this growth of inequality is also evident."

In response to significant advertising revenue losses of the media, primarily driven by the dominance of Big Tech platforms over this market, a policy brief cowritten by IGP Affiliated Faculty member Anya Schiffrin calls for the implementation of a broad-based digital services tax to fund journalism.

IGP Affiliated Faculty Member Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: "Two things are at work. One is genuine Democratic dislike of what is happening in the economy regarding prices, tariffs, etc. and then all the opposition to what Trump has been doing."

IGP Affiliated Faculty member Anya Schiffrin interviews NYU professor Rodney Benson, author of How Media Ownership Matters.

"AI companies steal quality news from media companies — they should be forced to pay," writes IGP Affiliated Faculty member Anya Schiffrin

The new initiative will produce original research and facilitate high-level dialogues on American democracy at a moment of unprecedented challenges.