Lorraine Glennon
Contributing writer
Lorraine Glennon, a Brooklyn-based editor and writer, was the editor-in-chief of Our Times: An Illustrated History of the Twentieth Century.
Articles by Lorraine Glennon
Could All Our Tax Breaks Be Breaking the Country?
How a zealous antitax campaign that went unnoticed by many has altered America’s social, cultural, and political fabric
The Challenges of News Reporting in an Election Year
Columbia Journalism School dean Jelani Cobb on the impacts of disinformation and the dearth of local reporting
Why Working Women Are Still Getting a Raw Deal
In Women Money Power, Josie Cox ’22BUS provides a history of women in the workplace over the last eighty years
What Declassified Government Documents Reveal About America’s Dark Secrets
At the Columbia History Lab, Matthew Connelly ’90CC uses data science to uncover long-hidden files
True Crimes of Greedy Masterminds
A review of Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks, by Patrick Radden Keefe ’99CC
Can a Terrorist Ever Be Rehabilitated?
In Home, Land, Security, National Book Award finalist Carla Power ’95JRN grapples with this thorny question
Why the Cold War Ignited America’s Progressive Culture
Louis Menand ’80GSAS takes a “street-level” look at one of the most fertile cultural and intellectual periods in recent history