Deepfakes are being weaponized for financial fraud worldwide — and regulation hasn't caught up. A new Data & Society Policy Brief from SIPA's Anya Schiffrin, coauthored with four SIPA students and alumni, examines what's broken in current approaches and what needs to change. Supported by an IGP faculty research grant.

How SIPA’s Executive MPA gave Chris Pilkerton EMPA ’03 the public policy foundation for a career at the intersection of finance, law, and national security.

Stuart Gottlieb, adjunct professor of International and Public Affairs, argues that repeated criticism of the Trump administration's war on Iran overshadows the operation's primary objectives. 

Joseph Stiglitz says AI’s hunger for more information means the extreme but vocal voices from the far corners of the internet will be what LLMs read the most.

Diana brings us along for her day in the life; from classes to tiramisu and everything in between!

Statecraft helps war-fighting as well as peacemaking, writes Saltzman Institute Director Elizabeth Saunders.

According to Columbia University Professor Robert Shapiro, Trump's attempts to nationalize the highly decentralized electoral system "would make voting more difficult, and it is generally believed that this would disproportionately affect Democratic voters."

In a working paper co-written by Anya Schiffrin and Roberta Carlini, the authors propose statutory licensing, a proposal requiring AI companies to pay publishers for journalism used to train their systems, past and future.

“They are being successful in severely constricting the flow of everything—not just oil, it’s also natural gas—and that is clearly having an impact on world energy prices,” said Daniel Sternoff, a senior fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University.

Nonya speaks with her fellow classmate. Bridgette Lang ’26, about her SIPA experience and what the SIPA community has meant to her over the last two years.