Politics

This page features news and research related to topics about politics at Columbia University.

President Tsai Ing-wen, as part of a two-day U.S. tour, participates in an academic discussion with members of the Columbia community. 

While Iran is weighing its options, the Trump administration seems to lean toward containment.

And moderators need to stick to the rules.  That means no interrupting, talking over each other, or blowing past the time limits. 

The Obama Foundation has selected the Columbia Center for Oral History Research to produce the official oral history of Barack Obama’s pr

Columbia's Christopher Sabatini examines the Venezuela crisis and President Donald Trump's support for Juan Guaidó. 

Dana Canedy calls the reporters “international symbols of the importance of press freedom.”

Columbia World Projects and Microsoft will pilot the ElectionGuard technology, a free open-source software development kit, aimed at improving the

Ari L. Goldman explains what The New York Times anti-Semitic cartoon debacle says about the state of the news media. 

"The Mueller Report is as damning as it could possibly get about President Trump's obstruction of justice," states Bernard E.

Prof. S. Akbar Zaidi discusses the complicated relationship between India and Pakistan as national elections in India begin April 11. 

William P. Barr (CC’71, GSAS’73) was confirmed as U.S. attorney general Thursday.

Steve Bellovin, a computer scientist whose expertise is cyber security, is far more worried about bugs in the computer code of electronic voting ma