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Alumni

Want to Meet New York’s Pizza Rats? There’s a Tour for That

With her “Garbage and Rats” walking tour, Suzanne Reisman ’00SIPA showcases the city that always squeaks

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Held Hostage for 444 Days: A Story of Survival

Forty years ago, Barry Rosen ’74GSAS was one of fifty-two Americans released from Iranian captivity

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Let's Talk About Sex on YouTube

Leeza Mangaldas ’11CC has made a career out of demystifying taboos and destigmatizing sexuality

Podcasts Wind of Change, The Radio Murders, Welcome to Your Fantasy, Drunk Women Solving Crime, Mother Country Radicals

5 True-Crime and Investigative Podcasts Worth Bingeing

These gripping series from Columbia alumni broadcasters will keep you hitting the play button

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Ayad Akhtar, Diane Paulus, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

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Safe at Home

At twenty-seven, General Studies sophomore Joey Falcone is the oldest Division I ballplayer in the country

Frank Lautenberg
Alumni

Army of One

Remembering Senator Frank Lautenberg ’49BUS

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Alumni

The Tender

The story of the steam engine that could

Harold Brown
Alumni

To Deter and Protect

Harold Brown ’45CC, ’49GSAS, who served as secretary of defense under Jimmy Carter, discusses the threats of the Cold War and their lessons for today

Carlos Gonzalez
Alumni

Street-Beat Confidential

Journalist Juan González has been writing about wrongs for thirty-five years. What's he got today?

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Liz Magic Laser, Beau Willimon, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

Robin Nagle
Alumni

The Pickup Artists

What does trash tell us about ourselves? Anthropologist Robin Nagle '94GSAS put on the uniform and found out

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Alumni

A Life in Full

Journalist Joshua Prager '94CC, a former quadriplegic, writes a healing memoir

Ben Jealous
Alumni

Justice's Son

The interconnected world of NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous '94CC

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Alumni

Second Acts

President Obama visits areas stricken by Sandy

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Kathryn Bigelow, Benjamin Jealous, and Other Alumni in the News

Columbians making headlines

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