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The June 23 primary will feature ranked-choice voting for local, city, and statewide offices.
At Columbia Business School’s Global Football Forum, leaders from across the soccer community examined how the World Cup can translate the sport’s commercial growth into lasting impact.
Columbia SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics and Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy announce new task force on the future of foreign assistance.
Columbia University’s Knight Institute brought together experts to examine whether middleware can reshape control over online speech and the digital public sphere.
The center will connect students, scholars, and policymakers to study how law structures economic power in America.
Ronald Schramm covers everything from housing to technological innovation, financial markets, and the workforce.
Columbia University’s Incite Institute offers more than 450 perspectives from the Obama White House and beyond.
Fentanyl is often framed as a single, wide-reaching crisis, but evidence from five major U.S. cities suggests a more fragmented, complex reality.
Experts from the Center on Global Energy Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs weigh in.
Columbia SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics and Hillel convened a gathering of leaders, diplomats, scholars, and students to reflect on Rabin’s legacy and the challenges of the pursuit of peace in the Middle East.
This new higher education initiative celebrates 250 years of French-American friendship and fosters the next generation of transatlantic leaders.