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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Future of Democracy: Sec. Leon Panetta
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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It’s not unusual for a new president to find the adjustment from candidate to leader to be jolting but President Trump’s first week in office has b...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 26, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Right to Work
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cedric de Leon
The “right to work.” The phrase sounds fair and equitable. After all, who shouldn’t have a right to work if they wish to? Twenty-six states now hav...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
13-06: How Close Does It Have to Get?: The Open Space of Democracy, 11/2/2016
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Terry Tempest Williams
In her writing and her life, Terry Tempest Williams reflects an expression of something better and higher in each of us. Here she wrestles with th...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kathryn Smith
The Glass Ceiling: That’s a term that’s been bandied about for some time. Those women who reach the top of their field whether it’s in business or ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Missouri Poets of the Midwest Poets Series
From: New Letters on the Air
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Discover the poetic variety of Missouri in this special program featuring readings from the Midwest Poets Series by three very different Missouri p...

Bought by WNJR and WJCU


  • Added: Sep 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dan Barry
In the winter of 2009, a social worker with the Iowa Department of Human Services, received an anonymous tip: A couple dozen disabled men were liv...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
It's Even Worse Than It Was
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Norman J. Ornstein
Congress is at a standstill. They have been for several years. In 2010 political insiders Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein began searching for the c...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Integration Nation
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Susan Eaton
Immigration. That’s a major hot button issue. In recent years, a handful of states have passed laws designed to make it easier to deport unauthor...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
We Too Sing America
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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An increase in the acts of terrorism around the globe raises the fear levels in America. Islamophobia in the Bible Belt, and anti-immigrant, anti-M...

Bought by KVSC, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KCBX


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Cut Loose
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Victor Tan Chen
Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Evangelical vs. Ecumenical: The Protestant Two-Party System
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Religion & Politics
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Historian David Hollinger discusses the split between the Evangelical and Ecumenical branches of the Protestant church.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 12:13