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Columbia Global Reports is a nonprofit publisher that looks beyond the headlines to start conversations through short but ambitious books. Subscribers help us continue to publish works of original thinking and on-site reporting from around the world that offer new ways of looking at and understanding major issues of our time. We invite you to join our community of readers.

First book included in this subscription

In Defense of Partisanship
by Julian Zelizer

“Contravening conventional wisdom, Zelizer offers a spirited defense of parties and partisanship. Rather than futile attempts to reverse polarization, In Defense of Partisanship advocates for political and institutional reforms to channel partisan impulses toward more democratically accountable policymaking.” —Frances Lee, Princeton University    Learn more

January 2025

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Losing Big: America’s Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
by Jonathan D. Cohen

“A timely account of the aggressive rise of online sports betting in the United States and the considerable human consequences of its predatory marketing and addictive app interfaces.” —Natasha Schull, author of Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas    Learn more

April 2025

Looking further ahead

The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing
by Jeffrey Wasserstrom / June 2025

Why are activists in Thailand, Hong Kong, and Burma willing to court danger to help one another? Historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom traveled to Southeast Asia to meet members of the loosely constituted group called the “Milk Tea Alliance,” activists from the region who express solidarity with one another online and on the streets, and found them connected by concerns over domestic autocrats and, in many cases, also the rising regional influence of a shared enemy—the Chinese Communist Party.    Learn more

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