Columbia Global Reports Series by Fatima Bhutto, Margaret Sullivan, Katie Worth, Masha Gessen, Misha Friedman, Haley Sweetland Edwards, Clay Shirky, Bethany McLean, Krithika Varagur, Priya Ayyar, Megan Walsh, Will Doig, Nicolas Pelham, Sasha Issenberg, Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

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  • New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop (Columbia Global Reports #1)
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    New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop (Columbia Global Reports #1)

    Fatima Bhutto

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2019

    A vast cultural movement is emerging from outside the Western world. Truly global in its range and allure, it is the biggest challenge yet to Hollywood, McDonald’s, blue jeans, and other aspects of American mass-produced popular culture. This is a book about the new arbiters of mass culture —India’s Bollywood films, Turkey's soap operas, or dizi, and South Korea's pop music... more

  • Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy (Columbia Global Reports #1)
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    Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy (Columbia Global Reports #1)

    Margaret Sullivan

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings · published 2020

    Ghosting the News tells the most troubling media story of our time: how democracy suffers when local news dies. From 2004 to 2015, 1,800 print newspaper outlets closed in the US. One in five news organizations in Canada has closed since 2008. One in three Brazilians lives in news deserts... more

  • Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America (Columbia Global Reports #1)
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    Miseducation: How Climate Change Is Taught in America (Columbia Global Reports #1)

    Katie Worth

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 2021

    Investigative reporter Katie Worth reviewed scores of textbooks, built a 50-state database, and traveled to a dozen communities to talk to children and teachers about what is being taught, and found a red-blue divide in climate education. More than one-third of young adults believe that climate change is not man-made, and science instructors are being contradicted by history teachers who tell children not to worry about it... more

  • Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia (Columbia Global Reports #1)
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    Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia (Columbia Global Reports #1)

    Masha Gessen, Misha Friedman

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2018

    Russia under Vladimir Putin has been rewriting the Soviet past as glorious, which demands the elision of terror, from forgetting mass execution sites in Medvezhyegorsk in the Arctic to isolating uranium mines in Kolyma in the Far East, to repurposing the country's only gulag museum, Perm 36, as a museum of secret-police valor.Masha Gessen is a Russian and American journalist, author, translator and activist who has been an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin... more

  • Shadow Courts: The Tribunals that Rule Global Trade (Columbia Global Reports #1)
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    Shadow Courts: The Tribunals that Rule Global Trade (Columbia Global Reports #1)

    Haley Sweetland Edwards

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2016

    A detailed look at one little-known but powerful provision in most modern trade agreements.International trade deals have become vastly complex documents, seeking to govern everything from labor rights to environmental protections. This evolution has drawn alarm from American voters, but their suspicions are often vague... more

  • Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and The Chinese Dream (Columbia Global Reports #1)
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    Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and The Chinese Dream (Columbia Global Reports #1)

    Clay Shirky

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2015

    Almost unknown to the rest of the globe, Xiaomi has become the world's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer. Its high-end phones are tailored to Chinese and emerging markets, where it outsells even Samsung. Since the 1990s China has been climbing up the ladder of quality, from doing knockoffs to designing its own high-end goods.Xiaomi — its name literally means "little rice" — is landing squarely in this shift in China's economy... more

  • Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants (Columbia Global Reports #1)
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    Shaky Ground: The Strange Saga of the U.S. Mortgage Giants (Columbia Global Reports #1)

    Bethany McLean

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 2015

    Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were created by Congress to serve the American Dream of homeownership. By the end of the century, they had become extremely profitable and powerful companies, instrumental in putting millions of Americans in their homes.So why does the government now want them dead?In 2008, the U.S. Treasury put Fannie and Freddie into a life-support state known as “conservatorship” to prevent their failure—and worldwide economic chaos... more

  • The Call: Inside the Global Saudi Religious Project (Columbia Global Reports #1)
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    The Call: Inside the Global Saudi Religious Project (Columbia Global Reports #1)

    Krithika Varagur, Priya Ayyar

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2020

    Everyone talks about "Saudi money," but no one really knows what it is. Journalist Krithika Varagur, a longtime chronicler of religion and politics, tells the story of Saudi influence as it has never been told before, in a book reported across the breadth of the Muslim world, from Nigeria to Indonesia to Kosovo.'THE CALL' connects the dots on Saudi Arabia's campaign to propagate its brand of ultraconservative Islam worldwide after it became oil-rich in the 20th century... more

  • The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters (Columbia Global Reports #1)
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    The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters (Columbia Global Reports #1)

    Megan Walsh

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2022

    What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you've never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by rotten girls, swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels, underground comics, the surreal works of Yu Hua, Yan Lianke, and Nobel-laureate Mo Yan, and what is... more

  • High-Speed Empire: Chinese Expansion and the Future of Southeast Asia (Columbia Global Reports #1)
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    High-Speed Empire: Chinese Expansion and the Future of Southeast Asia (Columbia Global Reports #1)

    Will Doig

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 3 ratings · published 2018

    The story of the world’s most audacious infrastructure projectLess than a decade ago, China did not have a single high-speed train in service. Today, it owns a network of 14,000 miles of high-speed rail, far more than the rest of the world combined... more

  • Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East (Columbia Global Reports #1)
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    Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East (Columbia Global Reports #1)

    Nicolas Pelham

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 2 ratings · published 2016

    How did the world’s most tolerant region become the least harmonious place on the planet?The news from the Middle East these days is bad. Whatever hopes people may have for the region are being dashed over and over, in country after country. Nicolas Pelham, a veteran correspondent for The Economist , has seen much of the tragedy first hand, but in Holy Lands he presents a strikingly original and startlingly optimistic argument... more

  • Outpatients: The Astonishing New World of Medical Tourism (Columbia Global Reports #1)
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    Outpatients: The Astonishing New World of Medical Tourism (Columbia Global Reports #1)

    Sasha Issenberg

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2016

    Need surgery? You better travel.Globalization produces a lot of odd results around the world. One of them is that Hungary has become the dentistry capital of thanks to aggressive marketing campaigns and heavy government support, more people go there for dental care than to any other country in Europe. The towns of Mosonmagyaróvár and Sopron boast the highest concentrations of dental clinics in the world... more

  • The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen (Columbia Global Reports #1)
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    The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen (Columbia Global Reports #1)

    Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings · published 2015

    The cosmopolites are literally "citizens of the world," from the Greek word kosmos, meaning "world," and polites, or "citizen." Garry Davis, aka World Citizen No. 1, and creator of the World Passport, was a former Broadway actor and World War II bomber pilot who renounced his American citizenship in 1948 as a form of protest against nationalism, sovereign borders, and war... more

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