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19th Amendment: Part 2
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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How did the divides in the suffrage movement define the fight for women’s enfranchisement? And how did that amendment finally get passed?

  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 20:02
Freedom of the Press: Part 2
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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How can we learn the truth in an age of misinformation, "fake news" and media mistrust?

  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 14:20
National American Indian Heritage Month- Busting the Thanksgiving Myth: Native Sovereignty & the Red Road
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Pilgrims, Indians, the myth of the grateful colonized person — it’s been at the core of a persistent but false Thanksgiving narrative that has dist...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Nov 23, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Armed with Art: Taking Down the Wall of Whiteness
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“It's time to disrupt this wall of whiteness,” says interdisciplinary artist Favianna Rodriguez this week on the LF Show. From BLM and MeToo to col...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KWMR


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part II): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: From Episode 15: The Centennial of W.B. Yeats’ The Second Coming (Part 2): Things Fall Apart Today (Much Like A Century Ago). Featuring our discussion with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, Prize-winning documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish
Exactly one hundred years ago this month, at a time of political polarization and the Spanish Flu pandemic, William Butler Yeats published “The Sec...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 27:15
The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part I): A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Paul Muldoon (Princeton University)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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How does a century-old poem written in Ireland as European civil wars erupted in the aftermath of World War I still resonate in our own partisan er...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2020
  • Length: 22:36
Political Junkie - Great Moments in Presidential Debates (2020)
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin for a review of many great moments from the history of televised presidential debates, with commentary from several...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, WUWM, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WJCT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 13
Political Junkie - Great Moments in Convention History (2020)
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin on a journey through political history as we revisit memorable and historic moments from national party conventions...

Bought by WVPE, Vermont Public, KCPW Salt Lake City, and KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Aug 14, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Democracy: Past, Present... and Future?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Don't remember the past? Does that mean you're condemned to repeat it? What does our country's past tell us about our present— and how can it help ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 26, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Resistance: The Ballot and The Bullhorn
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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From no, I won't to yes, we will. It’s official, over a hundred women, more women than ever, were voted into Congress including New Mexico’s Deb Ha...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Nov 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kingston Calling: Making Media Into Action
From: Laura Flanders
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For many, mass movements have made them aware of media's failure to inform and represent them. Activists are now working to make their own media, a...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Cindy Garcia assesses GDPUD
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Welcome back to some more small town politics, this time it's the Georgetown Divide water district, and Cindy Garcia gets right to the heart of cur...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:21:35
Episode #4: "A Vandalized Voice"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
Caption: Rolling Stone book publisher Alan Rinzler at home in Berkeley., Credit: Marcos Nájera
The men in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers? You never know—some say Zeta was a constant chameleon in life, love, and the law. ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 16:59
Episode #3: "The Ladies in His Life"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
Caption: Betty Dowd, Marco Acosta & Anita Acosta at the SF Latino Film Festival , Credit: Marcos Nájera
The women in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers. The ladies speak up and out about Oscar Zeta Acosta. From his spark-light sister...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 31:40
Episode #2: "Hunting for Buffalo in Arizona"
From: Marcos Nájera
Series: ZETA PODCAST SERIES
Caption: ASU Professor Luis Mendoza holds up an original copy of Acosta's book., Credit: Marcos Nájera
Nájera travels home to the Southwest to visit Latino scholars from ASU’s Transborder Studies department. The first of its kind in the nation. Chica...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 22:40
Political Junkie Special - Great Moments in Presidential Debates
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin for a review of many great moments from the history of televised presidential debates, with commentary from several...

Bought by WVPE, KGOU, KSUT, WJSU, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 16
Political Junkie 2016 Democratic Convention Special
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join the Political Junkie for special coverage of the 2016 Democratic National Convention from Philadelphia! Ken Rudin hits the convention floor to...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
Political Junkie 2016 Republican Convention Special
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join the Political Junkie for special coverage of the 2016 Republican National Convention from Cleveland! Ken Rudin hits the convention floor to he...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
Political Junkie Special - Great Moments in Convention History
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin on a journey through political history as we revisit memorable and historic moments from national party conventions...

Bought by WFAE, MPR News Stations, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 11
The Lolligaggers and Lavoy Finicum
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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The Lolligaggers Band sets the stage. And the late Robert Lavoy Finicum educates us concerning our rights...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2016
  • Length: 02:27:24
Shh!: Life in a State of Surveillance
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Wiring Before, Credit: Flikr user Kelp
Who's watching you? Nowadays it seems everyone wants to get their hands on our personal data. From the FBI to the welfare department, to some of th...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting, KMUN, and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Mikie Show #60, Leslye
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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For our sixtieth (but far from the last) episode, we speak with Leslye Obiora, PhD, a person committed to community and women’s equality. Law profe...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
Politics 101 BC: Voter fraud in the ancient world
From: Oregon Public Broadcasting
Caption: Ellen Millender, Professor of Classics and Humanities at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Credit: Michael Clapp, OPB
How do we know that there was voter fraud in ancient Athens? Pottery shards tell the tale.

Bought by Listenwise


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #47, Kara
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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It’s another episode of The Mikie Show! I know, we were all hoping I’d say that. Well, I did. Join us as we speak with Kara Hartzler, an attorney w...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jan 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Mikie Show #39, Whit
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Episode thirty-nine! Just had to say it, hope you don’t mind. We speak with Whit Patten, a man who grew up on a farm in the country (he had to boar...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 23, 2011
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1