This page features news and research related to topics about politics at Columbia University.
In the 20 years since David Dinkins left office, the former New York City mayor has stayed busy as a professor of public affairs at Columbia, running his annual Leadership and Public Policy Forum on campus, and serving on philanthropic boards.
Who’s on the Ballot, a new website that explains just that, was born out of a friendly conversation between SIPA Professor Ester Fuchs and her former student, William von Mueffling (CC’90, BUS’95).
Jagdish Bhagwati has been thinking about how to reduce poverty for more than 50 years, since he returned to his native India with degrees in economics from Cambridge and MIT to work for the India Planning Commission in 1961.
The role of technology in the Arab Spring and the Boston bombings, repression in North Korea, and privacy in the Internet age were just some of the topics Eric Schmidt, executive chairman and former CEO of Google, and Jared Cohen, director of Google’s in-house think tank, Google Ideas, discussed when they spoke at Columbia Journalism School on April 30.
Given her expertise in constitutional law and Congressional power, "The Record" asked Johnson to discuss recent clashes between the executive and legislative branches.
In his new book, The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power, Journalism School Professor Victor Navasky examines influential political cartoonists from the 18th century to the present.
In his most recent book, "Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time" Ira Katznelson analyzes the period from several new perspectives and hones in to an unprecedented degree on the influence of Southern Democrats in shaping the historic legislation.
Activist Leymah Gbowee helped mobilize a large number of women to pray and protest for peace after years of Liberian civil war.
President Barack Obama (CC'83), the first Columbia graduate to be elected president of the United States, was sworn in for a second term.
Columbia faculty members weigh in on Election 2012
The Record talked to faculty across the University to gauge the broader trends of the 2012 election cycle and to look beyond the issues to the actual mechanics of voting and campaign craft.
Debate season isn’t confined to television screens as the presidential campaign hurtles to Election Day. Columbia representatives of President Barack Obama (CC’83) and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are going toe-to-toe making their candidates’ case for election.