Columbia Global Reports Book Subscription

Find new ways of looking at the world in 2024. Our $85 subscription includes six paperbacks mailed in advance of publication directly to your doorstep.

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

The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age
by Sasha Issenberg

“Sasha Issenberg consistently identifies the next important thing in politics—and then explains it with vivid characters and irresistible narrative.” —Franklin Foer, author of The Last Politician
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March 2024

Coming up next

Soul by Soul: The Evangelical Mission to Spread the Gospel to Muslims
by Adrianna Carranca / April 2024

“A stunning achievement of both immersive reportage and rigorous research. With integrity, eloquence and grace, Carranca tells the story of the secret networks of evangelical missionaries living and working in closed countries in the Muslim world, whose trust she earns over years of careful reporting in high-risk situations.... This is an extraordinary book.”
—Eliza Griswold, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Amity and Prosperity    Learn more

Coming this fall

Climate Radicals: Why Our Environmental Politics Isn’t Working
by Cameron Abadi / September 2024

Democracy works by compromise, but climate change is precisely the type of problem that seems not to allow for it. As the clock on democracies’ own self-imposed climate timelines continues to tick, a structural mismatch between politics and science is becoming increasingly exposed. And those concerned by climate change—some already with political power, others grasping for it—are now searching for new ways to close that gap, by any means necessary.   Learn more

Left Adrift: What Happened to Liberal Politics
by Timothy Shenk / October 2024

Politics today doesn’t look much like it did fifty years ago. Campaigns have gone high-tech, hoping to use big data and sophisticated mathematical models to turn electioneering into a science. Meanwhile, a permanent class of political consultants has emerged, with teams of pollsters, message gurus, and field operatives. Taken together, all this amounts to a silent revolution that has transformed politics across much of the globe. Left Adrift is about that battle—and the world it has made.    Learn more

Looking further ahead

In Defense of Partisanship
by Julian Zelizer / coming January 2025

If there’s one issue that almost everyone in our divided country seems to agree, it’s the belief that hyper partisanship and polarization are severe ills afflicting the American political system. In this book, historian Julian Zelizer makes the contrarian argument that parties and partisanship are healthy, that the alternatives to them are unhealthy, and that it would be possible to make reforms that would greatly reduce the current toxicity of our political system without abandoning the structure of the two major parties.

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