Michael R. McAdoo, adjunct professor of international and public affairs, speaks to BNN Bloomberg about the U.S. pausing 50% tariffs on Canada.

Senior research scholar Julian Gewirtz provides a guided tour of the strange theater of U.S.-China presidential diplomacy.

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"Change doesn’t spring from politicians; it comes when regular people take dramatic action and push the politicians beyond where they would ever go on their own," says IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow Mary Kay Henry.

On the White House's program to conduct cyber counterattacks, senior research scholar Jason Healey notes that "allowing a small number of vetted companies to disrupt adversaries, under government control, is a worthwhile experiment. These operations are not meant to be ‘hacking back’ but longer term surveillance and disruption to frustrate their operations."

"Before a generational shift becomes irreversible, Israel needs to return to a basic tenet of its national security strategy during the first 75 years of statehood: maintaining stable bipartisan support in the US, even at the price of difficult political decisions in Israel," says former US Treasury Secretary and Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew.

“A.I. is a creativity tool at the end of the day, and multifaceted, and platforms that handle [AI slop] in a poor way will see people walk and go to other places,” says Camille François, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs.

Robert Y. Shapiro told Newsweek: "These are ripples of a 'wave election' leading in the direction of the Democrats not only taking control of the House but perhaps having different paths to get a majority in the Senate. In the House, they could get a larger majority than expected."

SIPA's Erica Lonergan and Jason Healey commented on the Trump administration's new memorandum letting private companies hack criminal gangs.

Robert Y. Shapiro, professor of political science and in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, on Michigan's Senate race: "the election will be all about turnout."