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Lucia Aniello in Hacks
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Lucia Aniello Hacks the System

The executive producer, writer, and director shares her unusual path to the top

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16 ‘Outstanding’ Emmy Winners with Columbia Connections

These acclaimed TV shows with alumni and University ties have won Primetime Emmy awards for outstanding series

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The Final Fate of the Voting Rights Act

Recent Supreme Court rulings have hollowed out the landmark 1965 legislation, which sought to prevent racial discrimination in voting

John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Benjamin Franklin

The Columbia-Educated Lawyer Who Helped Write the Declaration of Independence

Robert Livingston 1765KC may have missed the document’s official signing, but his anti-tyranny legal philosophy still resonates today

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Arts & Humanities

The Final Fate of the Voting Rights Act

Recent Supreme Court rulings have hollowed out the landmark 1965 legislation, which sought to prevent racial discrimination in voting

Film critic Natalia Winkelman
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How to Watch a Movie Like a Critic

Natalia Winkelman ’15CC, a film critic and podcast writer and producer, pens several reviews per month for The New York Times and other outlets

Grace Pak decorates the official America250 cake
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Yes, It’s Cake

Grace Pak ’16TC sculpts the official America250 birthday cake

Illustration of Mark Kesselman leading an online seminar
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How a College Reunion Led to a Revived Columbia Seminar

When alumni from the Class of 1966 reconnected with a beloved political-science professor, a virtual classroom was born

Clifford Chanin at the 9/11 Museum
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How Do You Memorialize a Mass Tragedy?

Twenty-five years after 9/11, Clifford Chanin ’77JRN, ’80SIPA keeps the events of that day in the public consciousness

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Alumni Art and Photography Books for Your Coffee Table

Though they’re often purchased as gifts, souvenirs, or home accents, there’s more to great “coffee table books” than pretty covers

A scene from The Pitt
Arts & Humanities

16 ‘Outstanding’ Emmy Winners with Columbia Connections

These acclaimed TV shows with alumni and University ties have won Primetime Emmy awards for outstanding series

Photo of Caroline Bynum
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My Medievalist Mentor

A conversation with Columbia historian Caroline Walker Bynum on writing, mentorship, and the long arc of intellectual formation

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45 Bingeable TV Shows Made by Columbia Graduates

These series from alumni are worth watching and rewatching

A'Lelia Bundles
Arts & Humanities

How Writer A’Lelia Bundles, Descendant of Madam C. J. Walker, Found Her Subject

Through sweeping biographies of her foremothers, the author shares a dazzling American inheritance. Her own story belongs on the same high shelf

Composer Sara Barone
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Sara Barone Puts Music to Media

The composer for film, TV, and video games works on a variety of Hollywood projects

The Dream of the Wood by Becky Moon
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The Tree Huggers of Columbia

Scholars and artists meditate on the arboreal at the “Being Treely” talk at the Lenfest Center for the Arts

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