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The 12 Million People Lost in a Maze of Medicare and Medicaid
From: Tradeoffs
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Many of America’s poorest and sickest patients are stuck navigating two separate insurance programs — Medicare and Medicaid — to get the care they ...

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2023
  • Length: 24:12
  • Purchases: 1
GLOBAL ISSUES come to BURNING MAN
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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As the media portrays 2023's Burning Man as a hellscape, THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man revists the work of a group of Burners at the 2019 event. ...

Bought by KFCF FM, WVTF, Nevada Public Radio, KUNM, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:37
  • Purchases: 6
Politcal Satire and Presidential Politics
From: KRCL
Caption: Book Cover
This is a 2-way interview with Sophia A. McClennen, a scholar of satire and politics and author of Trump Was a Joke, How Satire Made Sense of a Pr...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 20:53
The Meteoric Rise of Private Medicare Advantage Insurance
From: Tradeoffs
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Medicare is in the midst of a pretty dramatic transformation. Before long, two out of every three enrollees will likely have a private Medicare Adv...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Jun 16, 2023
  • Length: 24:09
  • Purchases: 1
‘That Rotten Spot’
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900, the public health department singled out Chinatown—as if Chinatown were the problem.

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 51:34
Return, Rebury, Repatriate
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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Activists were angry that a museum held the skulls of enslaved people. Then they discovered it also had remains of Black children killed in 1985.

  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 56:58
Yale Panel: An Emotionally Intelligent Approach to Understanding and Managing Polarization
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
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A Council on Academic Freedom launched at Harvard March 2023 and has some similar goals to a panel I helped create with Yale President Peter Salove...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 35:37
SCOTUS Weighs Medicaid Recipients Right to Sue
From: Tradeoffs
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Later this year the Supreme Court is set to decide whether to close a legal pathway that Medicaid recipients have used for more than 50 years. This...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 11:27
70 Million: Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On today's show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles and how they ...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KVSC and more


  • Added: Jan 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 14
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories about climate change.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 09, 2022
  • Length: 50:44
  • Purchases: 1
The Response: Heatwaves and Energy Poverty in the Mediterranean
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We visit southern Europe with our partners at The Response podcast to see how communities are tackling the problem of energy poverty.

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
What Happens When the People Decide?
From: Jenna Spinelle
Series: When the People Decide
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Learn about the basics of the ballot initiative, the history of how it caught on in the United States, and the pros and cons that she will explore ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 32:45
Save the Planet, Go Solar With A Friend
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Solar United Neighbors is building a movement by helping neighbors go solar.

Bought by KZYX, WFHB, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
How One Doctor Is Prepping for a World Without Roe
From: Tradeoffs
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A leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade has health care providers scrambling. We talk with an OB-GYN at the University...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 05, 2022
  • Length: 12:53
  • Purchases: 1
How One Alzheimer’s Drug Is Changing the U.S. Drug Approval Conversation
From: Tradeoffs
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After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the natio...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 22:11
70 Million: When a State Treats Drug Addiction Like a Health Issue, Not a Crime
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Miracles Club
A year ago, Oregon became the first state to decriminalize drug possession. The goal is to reverse some of the negative impacts of the War on Drugs...

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A New Era in the Fight Over Medicaid Premiums
From: Tradeoffs
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The impact of charging people to use Medicaid and how phasing out premiums could threaten one state’s Medicaid expansion.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 20:23
She's Beautiful When She's Angry (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We present the documentary, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, a reflection on the rise of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, bet...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
But Next Time Part 1: Toward the Fire
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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As fires ravaged California's world-famous wine country in 2017,a community radio station, emergency dispatcher, and tenant organizers helped the m...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Mallory Moench - San Francisco Reporter Discusses "Rampant Shoplifting"
From: Ray Samuels
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Mallory Moench, City Hall reporter for San Francisco, California, discusses the alarming trend of "rampant shoplifting" in the city.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 11:40
New York city elections 2021: Kristin Richardson Jordan and Art Chang
From: Ray Samuels
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Kristin Richardson Jordan is our featured LGBTQ candidate.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
NYC mayoral candidates Paperboy Love Prince and Stacey Prussman plus author Sam Kumar
From: Ray Samuels
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Paperboy Love Prince, Stacey Prussman (New York City mayoral candidates and author Sam Kumar. Paperboy Love Prince discusses LGBTQ issues.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 58:01
The Pseudo-Science of Whiteness: Biology as a Social Weapon
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting white supremacy in the U.S. She...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
70 Million: How the Asylum Process Became Another Carceral Matrix
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Back in Guatemala, María and her niece have returned to an environment where they say their lives are in danger, Credit: Grecia Ortiz.
The Trump administration has issued numerous policies to systematically dismantle asylum as a legal right. They're also locking up asylum seekers f...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
The Deep: Rising Sea Levels and Corporate Control of Water (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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On this episode of Making Contact, we look at the privatization of our earth’s most precious resource – water. People around the world have been or...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:59