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Columbia University's faculty and researchers do academic work on current issues related to the 2020 elections. This site will highlight some of that work and offer a way for journalists to search for Columbia University experts for their reporting.

LATEST NEWS

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Columbia World Projects Deputy Director Nominated As Biden's Director of National Intelligence

Nicholas Lemann, director of Columbia World Projects, released a statement on Avril Haines's nomination to be the next director of national intelligence.

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Bollinger's Thoughts on the 2020 Presidential Election

President Bollinger weighs in on the presidential election.

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Columbia Trustee Named Chief of Staff to Jill Biden

Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón, who is also Columbia Law School graduate, has traveled the path from humble beginnings in the Dominican Republic to the upper echelons of diplomatic service.

ECONOMY

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Priorities for the COVID-19 Economy
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How to Contain the Economic Fallout From COVID-19

ENVIRONMENT

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Lamont Climatologist Testifies on Capitol Hill About Sea Level Rise
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UN Secretary General: Without the US in the Paris Agreement, Humanity Faces Climate ‘Suicide’
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Robin Bell Goes to Washington to Testify About Melting Ice Sheets

VOTING

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Five Questions on Voting Controversies for Election Law Expert Richard Briffault
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We Need the FEC, and We Need It Now

 

“If you believe in freedom of speech and open debate, and you believe in a democratic system of self-government, you have to have a vote. You have to have some way in which to manifest the public will.”

—Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University and co-chair, the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on the Future of Voting

PUBLIC HEALTH

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Will the COVID-19 Virus Become Endemic?
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New University Initiative Works With Students to Organize Gun Violence Action Week
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Political Polarization: Often Not as Bad as We Think

EDUCATION

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Rethinking Education Leadership, Policy, & Politics in Uncertain Times: A Conversation with Sonya Douglass Horsford
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Teaching Music Online When Kids Lack Instruments and Internet Access

DOMESTIC POLICY

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Protest, the Press, and the First Amendment Imperiled
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Elora Mukherjee: A Champion of Immigrants’ Rights
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Parole and Probation Reform in the COVID-19 Era

FOREIGN POLICY

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Silence Is Not an Option
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Can America’s Global Leadership Survive?