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Lost in Immigration
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Some things are temporary.

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
What White House COVID Coordinator Ashish Jha Learned on the Job
From: Tradeoffs
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Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 16:54
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - A Deeper Look at Wrongful Convictions in America
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Wrongful convictions happen all the time in America, and they could happen to anyone. How do we stop innocent people from going to prison?

Bought by KSTK, KMXT, RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, KOWS and more


  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Top of Mind - Finding Our Way Out of Toxic Polarization
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Many Americans feel anger at fellow Americans right now. How can we bridge our differences?

Bought by KMXT, KSTK, RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, WYAP and more


  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Top of Mind - Starting Over After Life in Prison
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Nearly half of people who leave prison will end up back behind bars. Why don't they stay out? And how would their lives be different if no criminal...

Bought by KMXT, RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 15, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 7
Top of Mind - Harm Reduction-Saving Lives or Enabling Drug Use?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Do harm reduction methods prevent drug use long-term? Are they supposed to?

Bought by KSTK, KSTK, KNCT FM, RADIOLEX, and KOWS


  • Added: Mar 21, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
WRM10 - Will and Congress
From: KRSC
Series: The Will Rogers Minute
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Will Rogers loved to poke fun at Congress. Now he keep an eternal eye on them.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Panicked Purchases
From: Sandra Tsing Loh
Series: The Loh Down on Science: Special Pandemic Edition
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Why would a pandemic lead to toilet paper hoarding? Uncertain times result in irrational decisions when faced with the aisle of a grocery store. Th...

Bought by KSQM 91.5 FM


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Small Town Whups Big Oil: "You don't threaten Mainers"
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Citizens celebrate passage of Clear Skies Ordinance, Credit: Dan Wood
Despite millions of dollars of pressure from Shell, Exxon, and the American Petroleum Institute, the small city of South Portland, Maine stops the...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KRZA


  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Money, Machines, and More
From: Pius Wong
Series: The K12 Engineering Education Podcast
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Educator Rachel and engineer Pius introduce Season 4 and brainstorm about what interests us in K-12 engineering education today. We talk about scho...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2019
  • Length: 31:25
People Over Parking Lots
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
Caption: Half empty lot on Black Friday, Credit: Strong Towns
Fayetteville Arkansas and Buffalo NY stopped requiring off-street parking and found that walkable shopping districts boost local business. Its some...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KRZA


  • Added: Feb 10, 2019
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 4
Specters of Attica: Reflections from Inside a Michigan Prison Strike
From: Making Contact
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On the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, hundreds imprisoned inside Michigan’s Kinross Correctional Facility refused to report to wor...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Frozen River Film Fest 2018, Making Noise: The Story of a Skatepark
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of Art Beat, Logan Erickson takes us to the Frozen River Film Festival to speak with filmmaker Cecilia Cornejo on her new documenta...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Apr 06, 2018
  • Length: 27:11
  • Purchases: 1
California Innocence Project: Evidence - episode 6
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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The associate director for the California Innocence Project talks about the importance of working to address issues of evidence retention and prese...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
Life of the Law #123: The Battle Over Your Right to Vote
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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This week on Life of the Law, our team meets IN-STUDIO with Wendy Weiser, Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NY...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 40:56
Life of the Law #122: Government Ghost
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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2017 has been a terrible year for tens of thousands of people. Fires in northern California and record-setting torrential hurricanes and floods in ...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Nov 14, 2017
  • Length: 20:31
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #121: In-Studio: Brutally Ruthless
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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This week, our team goes IN-STUDIO with Jose “Chito” Vela, the young man’s immigration attorney and now candidate for the Texas State Legislature,...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 52:54
Life of the Law #116: In Studio: Prosecuting Discretion
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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This week on Life of the Law, our team met up in the studios of KQED to talk about the law, moral luck, and prosecutorial discretion in America.

  • Added: Aug 31, 2017
  • Length: 48:12
Life of the Law #115: Ten Hours to Twenty Years
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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It all started out as a plan to steal some comic books, sell them and split the cash. That was before a busted lip, a heart attack, and federal pro...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2017
  • Length: 29:34
Jesus Was A Communist
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Roman Montero
Biblical Scholar shows that the early Christians were communists.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 2
Reno plans to learn from early start cannabis sales
From: Brian Bahouth
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Nevada voters approved Ballot Question 2 last November by a 54 to 46 percent margin, and according to the initiative, the Nevada Department of Taxa...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2017
  • Length: 08:47
Prison Justice and Transit Justice
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Laura Everett
The problem of outsourcing of education and mental health services in prisons to evangelical Christian ministries and the challenge transit violenc...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Law #101: In Studio: Knowledge in a Post-Fact Era
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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At Life of the Law, we’re going to shake things up a bit so our team can jump into the national conversation that’s taking place about the law. We’...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 41:52
Life of the Law #97: A Fair Fight for a Fair Court: Election Year Special - Part 1
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The 2016 elections are over but what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and schol...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 55:48
Life of the Law #98: A Fair Fight for a Fair Court - An Election Year Special - Part 2
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The 2016 elections are over but what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and schol...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 59:57