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The Wildlife Conservationist Fighting the Pangolin Trade

Through Agent C Wildlife Initiative, Hongxiang Huang ’13SIPA is risking it all for the world’s most trafficked mammal

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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

Death investigator Barbara Butcher

A Death Investigator Learns to Live

Barbara Butcher ’83PH spent two decades behind police tape in New York City, examining bodies. Now, she reflects on the hard lessons learned

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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Checkered Past

Mike Gravel '56GS, former Democratic senator from Alaska, runs for president

Charles Van Doren and Vivienne Nearing on the "Twenty One" quiz show in 1957
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Truth and Consequences

Van Doren vs. Nearing

The Butler Library periodicals reading room, circa 1940
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The Old Man and the Key

A grad student gets locked up with her books

Milton Friedman, circa 1946
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Right on the Money

Remembering Milton Friedman '46GSAS

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Legal Combatant

Michael Ratner ’70LAW goes head-to-head with the U.S. government over the rights of Guantánamo Bay detainees

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His Long March

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Six Who Served

Sixty years after the end of World War II, Columbia veterans remember

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The Not-So-Gray Lady

Jodi Kantor was just 27 when she was called in to revivify the Times’s venerable Arts & Leisure section. Now, she’s ready for the next challenge

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Paradigm Lost

Anthony Lappé and his colleagues at the Guerrilla News Network find that even they’re surprised when they just let the tape roll

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Columbia's New Yorkers

Nearly half of Columbia’s 250,000 alumni — both transplants and homegrown — now live in the greater metropolitan area

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The Secretary on the State

Madeleine Albright ’76GSAS, ’95HON shares her thoughts on the Iraq War and reflects on her time at Columbia

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Rose Revolutionary

As president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili wants to clean up his whole country

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