This page features news and research related to topics about politics at Columbia University.
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.
Experts weigh in on the issues and challenges facing both candidates and voters in the 2020 presidential race.
Pundits are full of assertions on winning White House bids, but they are just opinions and nothing more. Let's try to avoid the 'electability trap.'
As part of Columbia's World Leaders Forum, she will talk about climate change, gender equality and social welfare.
Jack Lew, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and Raghuram Rajan, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, visited Columbia to discuss the connections between monetary policy and public support.
Historian Victoria Phillips examines the power of cultural diplomacy in her new book, Martha Graham's Cold War.
In the wake of the killing of Gen. Qasem Soleimani and Iran’s retaliation on U.S. forces in Iraq, a broader military conflict is not inevitable, but its chances are growing daily.
Robert Shapiro, a professor and former chair of the Department of Political Science, frames Joe Biden's presidential path to the 2020 election.
Professor Anne Nelson reveals how the right-wing media have proliferated in the U.S. and infiltrated American voters in her new book Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right.
In an event sponsored by the Knight First Amendment Institute, the former intelligence contractor talks about the White House whistleblower and more.