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Biden has gambled by forgoing face-to-face organizing due to the pandemic, relying instead on a virtual campaign to get out the vote. Our new study suggests his gamble will pay off.
A Columbia security expert explains why he has confidence in the voting system.
How will our wildly varied 50-state system of ballot collecting and counting impact when we find out the election results?
If the government won’t regulate funding and source disclosures, then tech companies should volunteer the information.
As part of an ongoing series, Columbia scholars Christopher L. Brown, Eric Foner, Stephanie McCurry, and Bailey Yellen, discuss the Black Lives Matter movement.
Alexander Cooley's Exit from Hegemony examines the US international system from the end of World War II to President Donald Trump.
The ruling highlights a growing trend among the justices in which religious liberty supersedes other rights.
Awards for literary excellence in the writing of history were given to Robert Colby, Charles King and Frances FitzGerald, who received the inaugural Tony Horwitz Prize.
Frank Guridy, Wilmot James, and Charles V. Hamilton share their perspectives on the anti-Black violence that has led an angry public to protest.
To kick off this new initiative, the institute is organizing a five-day online course to discuss government and corporate leadership during the COVID-19 crisis.
With detentions and delays behind him, political science major Qutaiba Idlbi is determined to bring political transition and justice to Syria.
American children are going hungry. Increasing access to SNAP benefits could help feed them.