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Caption: Leonard Rubenstein
It’s a horrific common occurrence in war. Especially modern warfare. Hospitals and health care facilities are relentlessly under attack, and health...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Jacket cover
Just over 30-years ago, Laura Levitt was brutally raped. At the time, she was close to completing her graduate work in religion and Jewish studies....

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Wolfgang Mac
Imagine spending your youth witnessing to the rise of Nazi Germany under Hitler’s dictatorship. You’re watching your country fall into the hands of...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Dr. Philip Landrigan
Thousands of new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during the last four decades. Yet, most of those chemicals ...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Robert Jay Lifton
Following decades researching cults, Robert Jay Lifton concludes “that the psychological relationship between extremist political movements and fan...

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  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Cory Doctorow
How we deal with the possibilities of tomorrow are very dependent on how we handle those possibilities today. Sounds simple, however, even when we ...

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Kathryn Miles
Following the Mexico City 7.1 earthquake, we are again hearing about the need to stay alert in California and Washington. In reality, though, that ...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Professor Vincent Hendricks
A new beast is on the scene, and it just may be part of the information age. The multi-headed monster is known as Post-Factual Democracy.

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
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Caption: Alan Schwartz
A high percentage of children in the United States are getting diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, as it’s become known.

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  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Professor Karlos HIll
This is a difficult story to tell. Most Americans are sickened that it’s even part of our heritage: The practice of lynching. It’s so distant, most...

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  • Added: Aug 31, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Dan Barry
In the winter of 2009, a social worker with the Iowa Department of Human Services, received an anonymous tip: A couple dozen disabled men were liv...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Epidemiology Professor Ralph Frerichs
A controversy involving United Nations Peacekeeping forces, the World Health Organization, and scientists --- not to mention the people of Haiti -...

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  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
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Caption: Professor Nicholas Stargardt
The Holocaust during World War II -- Horrifying images and stories that have come to symbolize an international conflict. What the story doesn’t t...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Amos Kamil
Investigative reporter Amos Kamil has deep roots in the elite Horace Mann School. But, twenty years after he graduated, Kamil discovered something ...

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  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Lou Ureneck
Shortly after World War One, the Ottoman Empire was in its fiinal days. The last desperate act of the Turkish nationalist army was to destroy the...

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  • Added: May 07, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Kathryn Miles
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy smashed into the Eastern seaboard. A monster nobody was prepared to deal with.

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Nell Bernstein, Credit: NPR
In her new book, award winner journalist Nell Bernstein takes us behind the scenes into the hidden lives of incarcerated children. She has spent mo...

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  • Added: Jul 02, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: PTSD book cover, Credit: Lexington Books
This is a continuation of a conversation with sociologist Jerry Lembcke. His book, -PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America.

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
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Caption: Bill Powers
Not long ago, we were told that North America had entered a new era of energy abundance thanks to shale gas. Or, have we? If you’ve listened to ex...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
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Caption: A Broad at Home, Credit: Walter Murch
The Conceptual artist Mr. Ai Wei Wei, was detained by the Chinese authorities on Sunday April 3. Where has he been taken and why?

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 09:25
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The story of the Grandmothes of the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aries

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2008
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Journalist JEREMY SCAHILL discusses his bestselling book BLACKWATER: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army."

  • Added: Apr 16, 2007
  • Length: 27:00
Caption: Inside Technology
Software designer developes terrorist avatars for specialist training

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 08:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Inside Technology
New voter databases may leave some registered voters off the list

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2006
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Aug 28, 2006
  • Length: 02:24