We’re excited to announce Angela Baggetta is CGR’s new publisher! 🎉💙 We can’t wait to show you what CGR has in store once Angela joins the team. She starts September 8, so you have until Labor Day to prepare. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Angela Baggetta Named Publisher of Columbia Global Reports

Baggetta, who has worked in publishing for nearly three decades, joins the Columbia University imprint after nine years running her own literary publicity firm, where she focused on “serious nonfictio...

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Why is it so important to so many people to believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life? Adam Kirsch went in search of the answer WE WANT TO BELIEVE: How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It Matters, is out August 25 👽 learn more-> https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/we-want-to-believe

Why do we believe in UFOs despite all efforts to dismiss them? And what do we reveal about ourselves when we talk and think about them? 🛸 WE WANT TO BELIEVE: How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It Matters, is out 8/25 👽 learn more--> https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/we-want-to-believe

New in the CGR office! Early copies of WE WANT TO BELIEVE: How Aliens Went Mainstream and Why It Matters, by literary critic Adam Kirsch 🛸 On sale August 25 learn more & preorder your copy--> https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/we-want-to-believe

New Article: How Can We Reclaim the Internet from Big Tech? Inside the Legal and Policy Battle Intelligent Machines explores law professor Olivier Sylvain's plan to rebalance control away from tech monopolies and protect small creators.

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Intelligent Machines explores law professor Olivier Sylvain’s plan to rebalance control away from tech monopolies and protect small creators.

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Who bets best, algorithms or fans? Join us for a conversation about what happens when betting markets & soccer fandom collide. With LOSING BIG author Jonathan Cohen & @tu-dortmund.de prof Andreas Groll. 🗓️ Next Mon June 22 at 4pm 📍German House of Soccer NYC Register now-> www.ghos-dfb.de

ICYMI: @oliviersylvain.bsky.social, author of RECLAIMING THE INTERNET, joined The Indicator from @planetmoney.bsky.social podcast to talk about how we lost the plot when it comes to free speech on the internet, and what we can do to get back on track. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

“These are companies that engineer the online experience. This isn't about free speech, but about optimizing their bottom line” Olivier Sylvain, author of RECLAIMING THE INTERNET, explores how we can give power back to the people on @planetmoney.bsky.social The Indicator www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

Can the internet be reclaimed from Big Tech? : The Indicator from Planet Money

Why one former senior advisor of the FTC thinks a libertarian myth of the internet has given Big Tech too much power.Fact checking by Vito Emanuel.Your Next Listen — Why infinite scroll's inventor wan...

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"Parties have done good things. There have been moments in American history where strong parties actually were part of what moved America in different directions" 🎧 ICYMI: Julian Zelizer explored the potential of partisanship on the @brennancenter.org's The Briefing podcast youtu.be/e518vbxiK_E?...

Hyperpartisanship and the Attack on Voting Rights (with Julian E. Zelizer)

YouTube video by Brennan Center for Justice

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We are writing a book! globalreports.columbia.edu/books/our-he... Drops October 2026 with @abduwelia.bsky.social Reporting this book was such an adventure. This is a story I never thought I’d have access to, and I’m thrilled to share it w readers who watch either the Syria and/or China space.

Happy UK pub day to THE BURNING GROUND: Oil and Militancy in Nigeria Noo Saro-Wiwa’s incisive and personal investigation of the oil industry in her home country of Nigeria reveals a haunting tale of corruption in a region struggling with contradiction ⭐ uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

“We hear the story of thousands of Uyghurs who travelled to Syria to gain battlefield experience fighting in the Syrian civil war. Are these people freedom fighters? Or are they the now battle-hardened militants China always feared?” one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5831...

🔊 Listen Now: The foreign fighters from China that played a key role in Syria’s revolution

State Of The World From NPR on NPR One | 16:24

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This is also the topic of a forthcoming @columbiagr.bsky.social book by Feng, which will be out in mid-October.

Our Hearts Burned for Home | Columbia Global Reports

The untold story of Uyghur exiles who fled China to the front lines of Syria’s war

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We love to see it! Sonia Faliero's THE ROBE AND THE SWORD is in great company on Aatish Taseer's list of essential reading on Buddhism in Asia for the @nytimes.com https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/t-magazine/buddhism-books-history-reading-list.html

Follow the Steps of the Buddha, Book by Book

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"When people are convinced that they know a secret, world-shaking truth, they are willing to wait a long time for vindication." Adam Kirsch explores why we still believe the truth is out there, and the government is covering it up, for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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"When people are convinced that they know a secret, world-shaking truth, they are willing to wait a long time for vindication." Adam Kirsch explores why we still believe the truth is out there, and the government is covering it up, for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Truth Is Still Out There

Why Americans remain convinced that the government is hiding an alien conspiracy

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This conversation will change the way you think about the internet Join us for a conversation about the network of undersea cables that connect our world—feat experts across business, engineering, and journalism 🗓️ Wed 5/6, 12pmET / virtual 🛜 register now! globalreports.columbia.edu/events/244/t...

The Fragile Undersea Cables That Connect Our World | Columbia Global Reports

A conversation about the fragile fiber cables that power and connect our modern life

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Nice to see the company my @columbiagr.bsky.social book is keeping at JF Books in DC

Become a CJR member today—our independent, nonprofit journalism depends on you: www.cjr.org/uncategorize...

Become a CJR member today—our work depends on you.

Become a CJR member today—our work depends on you.

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Livestream event! Join us for a conversation about the backbone of modern life—the robust network of delicate undersea cables that makeup the internet—featuring experts across business, engineering, and journalism. 🗓️ Wed May 6, 12pm ET Everyone is welcome! Just be sure to register by 5/1 ⤵️

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Heading to DC to do this event tomorrow evening at the great JF bookstore with Nan Z. Da (as well as a similar dialogue at a GW forum on China at 1:30 tomorrow) www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

JF SALON 4/30 Jeffrey Wasserstrom & Nan Z. Da

Reading Shakespeare, Orwell, and Twain in China Speakers: Jeffrey Wasserstrom & Nan Z. DaApril 30 6:00-7:30 pmShakespeare, Twain, and Orwell each gave us pictures of complete worlds, worlds in tur...

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"There are between 500 and 550 of these cables around the world. Together, add up their lengths, and it’s close to a million miles of cable that have been laid." @samanthsubramanian.bsky.social went deep on THE WEB BENEATH THE WAVES on the Ideas of India podcast 🎧 www.mercatus.org/ideasofindia...

Samanth Subramanian on the Fragile and Resilient Technologies that Bind Us

SHRUTI RAJAGOPALAN: Welcome to Ideas of India, where we examine the

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#UpperManhattanBookstoreCrawl 2026 Celebrate with us for Indie Bookstore Day! Starting Sun, April 19th through Sat, April 25th, visit participating stores and pick up a stamp card. Receive a stamp by making a purchase at each store. Get all 5 stamps and you could win a bookstore prize pack!

Next Friday (April 24), I'll be back at IU, where I taught for most of the first part of my career, speaking on The Milk Tea Alliance (first time I'll give a live talk where I can hold up a copy of the Taiwan edition) at noon, details of here events.iu.edu/easc/event/2... cc @columbiagr.bsky.social

Taiwan Studies Initiative Milk Tea Month: The Milk Tea Alliance

Dr. Jeffrey Wasserstrom will give a talk based on his book The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing.

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Livestream event! Join us for a conversation about the backbone of modern life—the robust network of delicate undersea cables that makeup the internet—featuring experts across business, engineering, and journalism. 🗓️ Wed May 6, 12pm ET Everyone is welcome! Just be sure to register by 5/1 ⤵️

The Fragile Undersea Cables That Connect Our World | Columbia Global Reports

A conversation about the fragile fiber cables that power and connect our modern life

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Happy US pub day to THE BURNING GROUND: Oil and Militancy in Nigeria (May 28 in UK) Noo Saro-Wiwa’s incisive investigation of the oil industry in her home country of Nigeria reveals a haunting tale of corruption in a region struggling with contradiction ⭐ globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-bu...

It's always great to get learn via Good Reads that someone new has come across, read & liked one's no longer new book/I was gratified to see the March review below of my 2020 @columbiagr.bsky.social book Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink & February review below of my 2025 CGR book The Milk Tea Alliance

“It's time we be far more serious about regulation than we have been. And I think the evidence is plain that something has to happen” @oliviersylvain.bsky.social author of RECLAIMING THE INTERNET talks about holding social media companies accountable on WhoWhatWhy podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Social Media Had Gun-Level Immunity. That Just Ended

Podcast Episode · WhoWhatWhy's Podcasts · April 3 · 40m

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Olivier Sylvain is a professor at Fordham Law School and the author of a new book titled Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back, published by Columbia Global Reports. I interviewed him at Book Culture, a bookstore on 112th Street in New York City.

Olivier Sylvain Wants to Reclaim the Internet from Big Tech

Justin Hendrix spoke to Sylvain about his new book, Reclaiming the Internet How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back, at Book Culture.

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"In some communities, a generation has grown up without any memory of pristine water or air—and given their lack of education, little reason to mourn it." Check out @thedialmag.bsky.social for an excerpt from Noo Saro-Wiwa's THE BURNING GROUND (on sale 4/14) ⤵️ www.thedial.world/articles/new...

Blood and Oil — The Dial

What extraction did to Nigeria.

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