Politics

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

Access to healthcare is at stake on Nov. 6, says Michael Sparer, chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health.

John Judis surveys the aftermath of the election, Brexit, and the ascendancy of authoritarian leaders around the world in his new book.

Author of the award-winning book Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, Ngai is an authority on immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and U.S. legal and political history. 

Armstrong is the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences at Columbia and the author of five books on the two countries. 

On May 8, President Donald J. Trump announced that the U.S. would be pulling out of the Iran nuclear deal. Richard Nephew, a senior research scholar at Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy, discusses the potential consequences.

On March 18, Russians voted for president. The way that Vladimir Putin won the election will play a role in shaping Russia’s future.