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Should Congress Stop Funding the War in Ukraine?
From: Open to Debate
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The U.S. has provided more than $75 billion in aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia. Some Congress members question whether we have done enough...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pete Seeger's Early Years: Music, Politics, and the Banjo
From: Adam Morse
Series: There Is A Season: The Pete Seeger Podcast
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This episode delves into Pete Seeger's early years growing up in upstate New York and at boarding school; his political worldview as channeled thro...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2024
  • Length: 48:39
Has Citizens United Undermined Democracy?
From: Open to Debate
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The landmark Citizens United Supreme Court case is in the news again in this high-stakes election year. Those who agree with the decision say it up...

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


  • Added: Feb 29, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Is the Republican Party’s Refusal to Raise Taxes Fiscally Irresponsible?
From: Open to Debate
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Whether to extend four trillion dollars in tax cuts or raise them next year is in question, with 34.1 trillion dollars in federal debt hanging in t...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Mock Trial: Is Trump Guilty in the January 6th Case?
From: Open to Debate
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After the 2020 election, former President Trump discredited the election results. The January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and Trump’s federal indi...

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


  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Josh Paul Reveals The Truth Behind US Arms Supply to Israel
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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After 11 years in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs — the entity most responsible for arms transfers to allies and partne...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
War and Peace
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Songs about war and peace

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Does America Need A Third Party?
From: Open to Debate
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While the two-party system has been the standard in the US government, third parties have often challenged this status quo and now advocates to be ...

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


  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Sally Mauk on the state of Montana politics and journalism
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week's guest is journalist Sally Mauk, senior news analyst and news director emerita at Montana Public Radio. Sally has covered Montana politi...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 02, 2023
  • Length: 27:44
  • Purchases: 1
Should Prosecutors Pursue Minor Crimes?
From: Open to Debate
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In the US, misdemeanors count for 80% of cases filed annually, but district attorneys around the country are implementing policies stating they’ll ...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Should the Government Raise the Retirement Age?
From: Open to Debate
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The age of eligibility for full Social Security benefits is currently 67, but the cash reserves behind it are expected to run out by 2034. Those ar...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Politcal Satire and Presidential Politics
From: KRCL
Caption: Book Cover
This is a 2-way interview with Sophia A. McClennen, a scholar of satire and politics and author of Trump Was a Joke, How Satire Made Sense of a Pr...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 20:53
Celinda Lake & Ed Goeas - A Bipartisan Friendship
From: Justin Angle
Series: A New Angle
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This week’s guests are Celinda Lake and Ed Goeas, award winning political pollsters and strategists who came together to write A Question of Respec...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 1
V (formerly Eve Ensler): Reckoning with Our Past, Transforming the Future (Suggest- Women's History Month)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“Reckoning” is the new best-selling book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), author of “The Vagina Monologues” and founder of V-Day/One Billion Rising, ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KVNF, KDNK and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Democrats Stave Off Disaster, For Now?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Were grassroots activists able to defend democracy in 2022? For this post-election roundtable, Laura convenes organizers to discuss some of the cri...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
As 2022 Election Results Roll In: Concern, Context, & Perspective
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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Our best guest insights to keep in mind during these polarizing 2022 midterm elections

  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 17:36
The Response: Heatwaves and Energy Poverty in the Mediterranean
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We visit southern Europe with our partners at The Response podcast to see how communities are tackling the problem of energy poverty.

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
For the Many or the Few?
From: Jenna Spinelle
Series: When the People Decide
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The final episode of the season explores whether ballot initiatives can withstand the challenges they’re up against, and some groups are looking to...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 24:47
A Matter of Life and Death
From: Jenna Spinelle
Series: When the People Decide
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A referendum on the death penalty in Nebraska draws our attention to some of the thornier questions about direct democracy.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2022
  • Length: 25:35
Congressman Jamie Raskin On January 6th: After a Failed Coup, a Successful One?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, intended to stop the certification of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States of America, “...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, WNYE and more


  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Lisa Graves: The Extremist Revolution & Democracy Hanging by a Thread
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The American Right is embracing a dangerous extremism, challenging elections, packing courts and aligning with Hungarian prime minister and Putin-a...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, KVSC and more


  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Women's History Month: Changing the Narrative, Women War and Peace II
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Making the future while surviving a war. In humanity’s never ending war stories, combat makes the news, but the macho gaze misses the complex reali...

Bought by KWMR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Women's History Month: Women's Choice is More Than Roe vs Wade
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipeline to prison for the vulnerabl...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
UPDATED AUDIO: Freedom for Women Requires Abolition Feminism: Suzanne Pharr & Beth Richie
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court could overturn Roe v Wade, imperiling all women’s freedoms, and creating a new pipeline to prison for the vulnerabl...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, and WNYE


  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Celebration & Polarization, Holiday Survival Kit (Part 2): When Anti-Science Makes the Menu
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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In this Purple Principle Part Two of our Holiday Survival Kit, we learn from Lee McIntyre how artful pushback must be to reach skeptical counterpar...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:09