Dispatches From The Inauguration

Selected Excerpts from Spectator’s Presidential Inauguration Blog

Marcus Brauchli, CC ’83, Missed Obama in College But Gets His Full Dose Now as Washington Post Editor

Marcus Brauchli, CC ’83, never crossed paths with Barack Obama while they were members of the same Columbia graduating class. Obama transferred in while Brauchli spent a year away. Obama was studying up for his LSATs while Brauchli was scoping out jobs at the New York Times. Yet Brauchli is now Executive Editor of the Washington Post, leading a newspaper that covers his classmate extensively.