Columbia
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The son of a law professor and a pharmaceutical executive, Barshay attended Colgate University and Columbia Law School.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
The most important thing I learned at Columbia was this: I am gay, but I am not queer.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
What is driving alarm "is not as much the level of tariffs as it is the unilateralism," says Petros Mavroidis, a professor at Columbia Law School.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
In Canada, the British Columbia General Employees’ Union is now asking for workers to be allowed to work from home.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026
These events prompted a slavery debate in Congress—and may have influenced one piece of the Compromise of 1850, which ended the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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