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.
How Guardrails and Regulations Stifled American Progress
In Why Nothing Works, Marc J. Dunkelman ’01CC investigates the decline of public-sector innovation from the 1960s through today
The World’s Most Contagious Disease Makes a Comeback
In Booster Shots, pediatrician Adam Ratner ’97PH, ’97VPS grapples with the repercussions of the anti-vax movement
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