Stronger winds and drier climates are to blame for the increase in California wildfires, A. Park Williams said, adding California is 3 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than without climate change.

Joseph Stiglitz writes in The Guardian that the free market mentality of trickle-down economics is dismantling democracy. "growth has slowed and the fruits of that growth went overwhelmingly to a very few at the top... rather than trickling down."

Jason Bordoff notes that the modest size of the resource, risk of conflict, and legal obstacles to investment from U.S. sanctions make it unlikely that a U.S. oil major would find it commercially attractive to invest in the Syrian oil sector. 

There are a lot of different ways to do income estimates for the top 400 taxpayers, and they lead to very different conclusions says  Wojciech Kopczuk about Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman's new book, The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay.

A Columbia-designed data visualization shows just how big tech uses our data.

Christopher Sabatini opines, the piggy bank is empty and global demand for commodities, including Argentina’s agricultural exports has dropped, so the latitude for a profligate populist program of redistribution is severely limited.

Sweden’s foreign affairs minister, Ann Linde, visits SIPA.

The October 18 event highlighted research findings of five alumni and three current students in SIPA’s unique PhD Program in Sustainable Development.