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Civics 101: The True Story Of Reconstruction
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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Reconstruction has long been taught as a lost cause narrative. We talk about what that narrative leaves out.

  • Added: Jan 09, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
A primer for discussing Israel and Gaza and our divided American political landscape: John Donvan in discussion with author Mónica Guzmán
From: Open to Debate
Caption: PRX default Piece image
How can you have meaningful conversations in increasingly divided times, whether it’s against the backdrop of American politics or the Israel-Gaza ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Nov 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 3
The Untold Story of Main Street Economics with MN Auditor Julie Blaha
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks once again with MN State Auditor Julie Blaha. T...

  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 29:54
Forget Everything You Know About Texas
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Red, Republican, anti abortion, anti trans — Texas has certainly been a testing ground for backlash policies and politicians, and that could be wha...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK and more


  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
13-14: Inalienable: Belonging to the Earth Community, 10/27/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Joanna Macy
Deep Ecology extends an inalienable right to life to all beings. Yet as the naturalist Aldo Leopold observed, “One of the penalties of an ecologica...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Democracy: A National Temperature Check
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Disinformation, polarization, growing economic inequality, attempts to undermine elections and the rights of women and racial minorities—all of the...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
03-11: Beloved Community: Hello My Other Self, 1/6/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Ilarion "Larry" Merculieff
In today’s radically shifting world, the name of the game is resilience – the capacity of both human and ecological systems to absorb disturbance, ...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:30
The Untold Story of the ABILITY International Event Hosted by SCSU's Rehabilitation Counseling Program
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Dr. Amy Knopf and Graduate Assistant Kaitly...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
National Writers Series: Elaine Weiss and William Kent Krueger
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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Interviews with authors Elaine Weiss and William Kent Krueger

Bought by WCMU Michigan and WKAR


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 2
Industrial Strength Denial
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Barbara Freese
Corporations have a very long history of denying wrongdoing. Think Wells Fargo, Volkswagen, Exxon Mobile. The list is lengthy. In fact ,the persist...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Witch Hunts and Enclosures: Bodies, Land and Women
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Silvia Federici
Today, witch hunts are still happening, in places like East Timor, India and Cambodia. Federici, who never really left the subject of witch hunts, ...

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Christian Evolutionary Biologist reconciles his faith with science
From: Free Epistemology with Mark Solomon
Series: Being Reasonable
Caption: Being Reasonable
David Remington, associate professor in the Dept. of Biology at UNCG, is challenged to reconcile his Christian faith with his scientific endeavors....

  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:00
F-Word: The Global Corruption Rebellion Americans Don't Know They're Part Of
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"In a system that's unequal, corruption is not just the way we swim, its the water we swim in..." The F-Word, Laura Flanders' bi-monthly commentary.

  • Added: Oct 07, 2019
  • Length: 04:00
Queerness
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is queerness just a marker of sexual orientation, or is it a political and social identity?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KQED, CHSR-FM 97.9, WFHB and more


  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
Fault Lines in the Constitution revisited
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Founding Fathers images
They are an unexpected husband and wife team: the Levinson’s. Sanford is a constitutional scholar. Cynthia is an award-winning author of children’...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fandango at the Vote: SURJ & Arturo O'Farrill
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Looking back on the midterm elections, we ask the tough questions about white women voters and race, then get introduced to the hi-pinky salute acr...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Pond #05: Thomas Buergenthal – A Lucky Child
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Thomas Buergenthal saw the Nazi concentration camps through a child’s eyes. Luckily, he survived and later became a lawyer and eventually a judge o...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, and KRZA


  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 22:54
  • Purchases: 3
Dig Deep - Rural Questions for our Next Governor part 1
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Dig Deep
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All year we had been meeting the people running for Governor on KAXE/KBXE and had planned a Governor's forum in Grand Rapids one week after primari...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2018
  • Length: 19:13
National Suicide Point?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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Smash society and you create craven people. Craven, from the early English word meaning crushed, defeated, overwhelmed.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:30
What if Ida B Wells Depended on Facebook?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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After Ida B. Wells published a column on May 21, 1892, denouncing “the old threadbare lie,” that lynching was used to “protect white womanhood,” a ...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:30
Bodies, Borders, Resistance, Rebirth: Arundhati Roy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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India in the throes of a fascism that echoes what we have in America. The country is undergoing a political upheaval with PM Modi at its front, and...

Bought by Radio Catskill and KDNK


  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 28:09
  • Purchases: 2
The Untold Story of the Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast at St. Cloud State University with ISAIAH Members Pastor James Alberts and Justin Lewandowski
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In this timely installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage producer Jeff Carmack talks about the Martin Luther...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2018
  • Length: 30:45
Delta Epiphany
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ellen Meacham
In the spring of 1967, Senator Robert F. Kennedy had an experience that changed his thinking about America, and his own responsibilities. His awake...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
California Innocence Project: Interns - episode 5
From: KHSU
Series: California Innocence Project
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The California Innocence Project relies on interns to go through thousands of requests for assistance. In this episode, interns share some of their...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
The late Puerto Rican Poet & Fiction Writer Judith Ortiz Cofer
From: New Letters on the Air
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National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with a look at Puerto Rico’s culture and stories through the eyes of the late Judith Ortiz Cofer. In the...

Bought by New England Public Media


  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1