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
Lucia Aniello Hacks the System
The executive producer, writer, and director shares her unusual path to the top
Can a Spacesuit Designed for Mars Protect Us from the Next Pandemic?
NASA veteran Lawrence Kuznetz ’64SEAS, ’65SEAS builds apparel to shield humans from earthly and extraterrestrial ills
The AI Boom’s Unpaid Bill
Growth driven by data-center development comes with hidden economic risks, according to a new paper
Recent Stories
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
A Spoonful of Humor Helps the Neuroscience Go Down
Rai Sen is the founder of the Lab, an improv troupe that uses comedy to communicate science to the public
Chatbots Have Entered the Classroom. What Happens Next?
Columbia faculty are finding innovative ways to incorporate AI into coursework without compromising academic rigor
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
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
Scientists Reveal Malaria’s Method of Attack
A major new discovery by Columbia scientists is raising hopes that more-effective drugs could be developed
Sleeping too Little (or too Much) Linked to Faster Aging, and Other Science News
The latest findings from Columbia researchers
Black Hole Collisions Are More Common than Previously Thought
New research roughly doubles the total number of events ever identified
Books
6 New Books for Fall 2026
From Emma Cline ’13SOA, Phillip Lopate ’64CC, and other Columbia authors
Could this Rare Disease Help Cure Alzheimer’s?
In The Vanishing Family, journalist Robert Kolker ’91CC follows three generations of a family plagued by frontotemporal dementia
