Timothy Frye, Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy, published in the Washington Post.
Survey data suggest it will be hard for Putin to rally support for a direct military intervention
Many analysts have worried in recent weeks about a large buildup of Russian military forces along the Ukrainian border. Russian troops have gathered in areas near the ongoing conflict in the Donbas, and some troops relocated to Crimea. Amid border skirmishes, warnings from the Kremlin and escalating rhetoric on Russian state-owned media, what’s going on?
Vincent Schiraldi, co-Director of the Columbia Justice Lab, pubished in Maryland Matters
The Montgomery County Police Department recently released shocking body-camera footage of two officers berating and handcuffing a 5-year-old elementary school child. The video shows officers shouting at him inches away from his face that he was a “little beast” and saying, “I hope your momma lets me beat you.” The child’s mother has filed a lawsuit and both officers are under investigation.
Vincent Schiraldi, Senior Research Scholar at Columbia School of Social Work and Co-Director of the Columbia Justice Lab published an opinion in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
As someone who has run youth corrections and probation in large jurisdictions, I support trading the old system for a community-centered approach.
Undocumented migrants have come to the U.S. for centuries. Why do we treat them differently today?
Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, was quoted in CBS News.
The surge in people arriving at the United States southern border comes as the Biden administration hopes to overhaul an immigration system often described as broken...
U.S. federal debt to exceed size of economy even before Biden stimulus is approved, CBO says
Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor, was quoted in the Washington Post.
America’s federal debt is set to exceed the size of the entire U.S. economy this year for only the second time since the end of World War II, a reflection of the extraordinary emergency measures approved by Congress in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Thursday...
Melinda Gates, Tedros Gebreyesus, Jeremy Farrar, Anthony Fauci, Moncef Slaoui, and Ezekiel Emanuel to Give Keynotes
Wilmot James, ISERP Senior Research Scholar, was interviewed for the Columbia School of Professional Studies, where he is a Bioethics Lecturer, about the upcoming symposium.
Arianna Rosenbluth Dies at 93; Pioneering Figure in Data Science
Andrew Gelman, Higgins Professor of Statistics, Professor of Political Science and Director of ISERP's Applied Statistics Center, was quoted in the New York Times.
Dr. Rosenbluth, who received her physics Ph.D. at 21, helped create an algorithm that has became a foundation of understanding huge quantities of data. She died of complications of the coronavirus.
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