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Fentanyl-related deaths among teens more than tripled across the U.S. from 2019 to 2021. And the CDC reports that two thirds of teens who died had ...
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- Added: Dec 01, 2023
- Length: 29:30
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As overdose fatalities reach two to three deaths a day in San Francisco, demands for supervised consumption sites are getting more urgent. But city...
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- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 29:30
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Some San Francisco city officials are advocating jail for unhoused people who use drugs and murder charges for people who sell drugs. Critics say t...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
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San Francisco city officials have decided that arresting unhoused people for using drugs is the way to get them into treatment programs. Critics sa...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2023
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While San Francisco is on track to break records for the highest number of fatal overdoses in one year, health experts say the city is failing when...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 29:30
San Francisco is experiencing its worst rate of drug-related fatalities ever, and as city officials impose increasingly punitive measures against p...
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- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 28:12
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Over the past few episodes, we introduced you to the idea of what Shifting the Narrative is and what it looks like in gun sense, the war on poverty...
- Added: Sep 27, 2021
- Length: 15:01
Over the past decade, support for the death penalty has plummeted. In this episode, we look at why this happened and how one unexpected messenger, ...
- Added: Sep 27, 2021
- Length: 35:11
Gun violence is an issue that divides many Americans. But a theater company in New York set out to build a bridge by helping people with firsthand ...
- Added: Sep 27, 2021
- Length: 31:30
Fifty years ago, the Poor People’s Campaign took over a portion of the National Mall in Washington, DC. Their aim: change how Americans understand ...
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- Added: Sep 27, 2021
- Length: 37:10
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Narratives are all around us. These big meta-stories tell us who we are as a nation and the values we share. Narratives help us explain why things ...
- Added: Sep 26, 2021
- Length: 02:12
What's it like when a pandemic crushes your dream of playing a Division One sport?
- Added: Nov 21, 2020
- Length: 13:18
If you're trying to cover the pandemic in seven Midwestern states, where do you start? WNIN partnered with data scientists from the University of E...
- Added: Nov 21, 2020
- Length: 14:47
Education is more than job training, says Duke University professor Priscilla Wald.
- Added: Nov 07, 2016
- Length: 02:06
Norman Wirzba sees a moral vacuum at the heart of the presidential campaign: He says candidates are ignoring society's most vulnerable citizens. Wi...
- Added: Nov 07, 2016
- Length: 02:11
We could do a lot to improve public health and reduce runaway medical expenses if we focussed more on preventing disease and less on medical fixes,...
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 02:18
The word that best describes America's infrastructure is "crumbling," says Henry Petroski.
Petroski is Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engi...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 02:07
Rising sea levels are just one way climate change is reshaping the world's oceans, says Duke University oceanographer Susan Lozier.
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 01:40
New voter identification laws could sharply curb voter participation in N.C. and other states, says Duke University historian Gunther Peck.
- Added: May 18, 2016
- Length: 02:14
With our piecemeal coastal policies, "We're haphazardly geo-engineering a whole coast," says Duke University economist Martin Smith.
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- Added: May 16, 2016
- Length: 02:19
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National service is a winning issue with potential bipartisan appeal, says a professor at Duke University.
- Added: May 10, 2016
- Length: 02:05
Anton Treuer has been immersed in higher education for many years. Some of the most common barriers to higher education disproportionately affect s...
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- Added: Mar 30, 2016
- Length: 03:03
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"Criminal Justice System.” Those three words intimidate a lot of us. Megan Treuer is Associate Judge at Leech Lake. She voluntarily heads the Crim...
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- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 08:46
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A look inside the labs, treatment facilities, and homes of those closest to heart disease.
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- Added: Nov 02, 2015
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 6
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...
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- Added: Aug 05, 2014
- Length: 06:00
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