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Living Planet 08302019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Living Planet: Environment Matters ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Living Planet: Jumping in the green end - DW's Neil King, Gabriel Borrud and Vanessa Fischer drop by the studio to talk...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WRGY, and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 29, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
2019-08-09 Land of Dreams and Drought
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In his new book The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California, author Mark Arax reveals the tumultuous history behind the myth of abund...

Bought by WJCT, WMUU-LP, WLPR , KFCF FM, KBBI Alaska and more


  • Added: Aug 07, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 7
Starter Kit: How a Bill (Really) Becomes a Law
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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4% of bills become laws. 90% die in committee. Here's why.

Bought by WFHB, WNYO, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 24:42
  • Purchases: 3
Starter Kit: Federalism
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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One big government and the fifty little governments that comprise it.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 24:20
  • Purchases: 3
Starter Kit: Judicial Branch
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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They used to meet in a basement.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 20:54
  • Purchases: 2
Starter Kit: Checks and Balances
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The glue that slows us down and holds us together.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KWMR, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 06, 2019
  • Length: 15:34
  • Purchases: 3
World in Progress 07/11/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: In some parts of the world, access to water is as simple as turning on the tap. But for many people that's not an option. T...

  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Special Report: Whose Economy Is It? Ours
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Our city's economy – what is it for? New York's has been very good at piling up profits and building tall buildings. But all that private profit ha...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 28, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
190517: Republicans and a Democrat on Climate, 5/17/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The Green New Deal is shaking up climate politics in Washington. The resolution’s ambitious clean energy goals are championed by several leading De...

  • Added: May 16, 2019
  • Length: 58:57
World in Progress 05/09/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The war in Yemen has pushed millions to the brink of famine. There's a cholera epidemic looming. Despite a fragile truce in ...

  • Added: May 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
World in Progress 04/25/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Brazil's new President Jair Bolsonaro has been vocal in not caring much about protecting the world's largest rainforest. M...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
World in Progress 04/04/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: we zoom in on North and South Korea. For more than 70 years, the Korean peninsula has been divided. And many hope the two c...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Founding Documents: The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The all-out op-ed battle over the U.S. Constitution.

Bought by KMUN, PRX Remix, and KRZA


  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 3
Would You Be My Neighbor?
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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Sociologist Ariela Schachter investigates how Americans think about race, immigration, assimilation, and what it means to be ‘similar.’

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 12:15
  • Purchases: 1
Creators and Copycats: The Business of Fashion in Guatemala
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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In an indigenous Mayan community in highland Guatemala, sociocultural anthropologist Kedron Thomas noticed a trend that led her to investigate inte...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 18:47
Charter School Myths
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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A sociologist of education breaks down some common myths about charter schools and offers her advice for newly appointed education secretary Betsy ...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 15:08
Inequality at Work
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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Sociologist Adia Harvey Wingfeld documents the pervasive and often subtle ways that successful black men – people like doctors, lawyers, and engine...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 12:48
  • Purchases: 1
Making Sense of Klansville
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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When conducting research for his acclaimed book "Klansville, USA," sociologist David Cunningham encountered the work of a journalist who, in the 19...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 16:45
Right to Work? Unions & Income Inequality
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Inequality
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Sociologist Jake Rosenfeld discusses the growing wealth gap between rich and poor Americans, decreasing labor union membership, and considers what ...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2018
  • Length: 13:42
Vision Action Network
From: John Shuck
Series: Beloved Community
Caption: Glenn Montgomery, Executive Director, Vision Action Network
Glenn Montgomery, Executive Director of Vision Action Network (Washington County, Oregon--Portland Metro) discusses its work in bringing diverse st...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 52:01
Anti-Intellectualism
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Conspiracy theories, propaganda, social media, and the denial of scientific theory are all playing a role in the rise of anti-intellectualism in th...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2018
  • Length: 26:14
2017-12-31 Ai Weiwei: Human Flow
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Ai Weiwei, artist, filmmaker
Ai Weiwei is an artist who uses many canvases to express himself. From art installations to architecture, social media to the big screen, Ai is one...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, KCRW, KWIT, WUTC, WLPR and more


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 6
2017-08-06 Al Gore and An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
Caption: Al Gore, former vice president of the United States
Former Vice President Al Gore joins Climate One to talk about his tireless fight, training an army of climate champions and influencing internation...

Bought by WGCU, KAAD-LP, KSFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 14
Oh, Give Me a Home | Episode 3 | Born Free
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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Many cattle ranchers view wild bison as a threat to their livelihoods. But some think cattle and bison can coexist. On episode three of Threshold, ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, Prairie Public, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
2016-01-08 The Sixth Annual Stephen Schneider Award: Naomi Oreskes
From: Climate One
Caption: The Stephen Schneider Award, Credit: Ed Ritger
Science historian Naomi Oreskes, author of “Merchants of Doubt,” has had her share of hate mail from climate deniers. But she insists that “we can'...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2017
  • Length: 59:00