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Geopolitical Stability

"The facts that are being used for the basis of designation, those had to be irreproachable," said former Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, who led the Treasury Department under the Obama administration, from 2013 to 2017.

Mar 17 2026
NPR
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Technology & Innovation

A new policy brief on the topic put out by Columbia University scholars last week found that AI is fast becoming the preferred method for financial scams in particular

Mar 16 2026
Financial Times
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Geopolitical Stability

CNN's Fareed Zakaria spoke with former Obama White House energy policy official Jason Bordoff about the winners and losers from this crisis.

Mar 15 2026
Fareed Zakaria GPS
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Geopolitical Stability

The war with Iran has entered its third week, and Israel says it will last for at least another three. What is the strategy of Iran's new leadership? Fareed Zakaria spoke to Lisa Anderson, dean emerita of Columbia SIPA.

Mar 15 2026
Fareed Zakaria GPS
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Technology & Innovation

For AI to benefit all people, it will need to speak their languages and understand their worlds, writes Daniel Björkegren, assistant professor of international and public affairs.

Mar 13 2026
Center for Global Development
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Geopolitical Stability

CFR President Michael Froman discusses the unfolding global energy crisis with CFR’s Dan Poneman and the Center on Global Energy Policy’s Jason Bordoff, all of whom worked together on the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve 2011 release.

Mar 13 2026
Council on Foreign Relations
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Geopolitical Stability

As brutal revelations emerge about Trump’s handling of his invasion, Elizabeth Saunders explains why he won’t be able to extricate us from this debacle anytime soon—and provides a roadmap to what’s next.

Mar 12 2026
The Daily Blast With Greg Sargent
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Climate & Sustainable Development

“If your goal is domestically produced energy and you’re South Africa or Indonesia or China, coal looks pretty good from energy security standpoint,” said Jason Bordoff, the founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy.

Mar 12 2026
SWI swissinfo.ch
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Geopolitical Stability

According to Columbia University historian, Timothy Naftali, former presidents issued executive orders banning the U.S. government from engaging in political assassinations.

Mar 12 2026
NPR
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Technology & Innovation

According to senior lecturer Anya Schiffrin and university professor Joseph Stiglitz, AI deepfakes used in online fraud are a global problem. It is far more efficient for gatekeepers, such as digital platforms like Meta, where scam advertisements circulate, to take measures to prevent scams than to expect individual users to recognize and avoid deception.

Mar 12 2026
The Point
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