“I don’t think the adding of oil from Venezuela is a game-changer for the U.S.,” said Bordoff, who worked as the senior director for energy and climate change on the National Security Council during the Obama administration. “But it could be a game-changer for Venezuelans.”

Faculty from SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics (IGP), Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP), Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS), and Institute of Latin American Studies weigh in on the US’s removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Luisa Palacios, managing director of energy transition finance at the Center on Global Energy Policy and the former chairwoman of the Citgo Petroleum Corporation, joined a a panel of experts to make sense of the new world order ushered in by President Trump’s “Donroe Doctrine.”

Nationwide field experiment co-led by SIPA’s Robert Metcalfe reveals climate data influences search, bidding, and purchasing behavior across the housing market

Jason Bordoff of Columbia University discusses the aims by President Trump to rehabilitate the infrastructure and oil production in Venezuela. He also discusses the administrations’ aims behind its’ operations in Venezuela, and its’ implications for China, which is also a big importer of Venezuelan oil.

Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: "This is a good issue for Hochul and Mamdani since it speaks directly to the severe problem of child care affordability for families with working parents. Mamdani promised it and it is a good issue for Hochul to take up for her reelection. Since the benefit would go to workers with children needing day care, these are deserving people who are under financial pressure."

Nonya reflects on her internship in the U.S. Embassy's Political Section and how the skills she learned from SIPA helped enrich her experience.

Donald Trump's military operation in Venezuela should show Europeans that the US is a predator for Europe, just like Russia and China, argues former United Nations under-secretary-general Jean-Marie Guéhenno.

"We're going to have to see in the coming weeks and months and years whether there is, in fact, a stable transition to a democratically elected government," Jason Bordoff told NPR. 

Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: "The low popularity rating, especially falling off among Republicans, is of concern—more so for the Republican Party as the midterm elections approach."