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Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...
- Added: Apr 05, 2022
- Length: 59:00
Redistricting has the power to shape elections, and this year, it’s more controversial than ever. After a contentious 2020 census, the development ...
Bought by KWMR, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE
- Added: Feb 16, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
Today we discuss the work of the late Noel Ignatiev using the memoir that has just been published by Charles H. Kerr. It’s called Acceptable Men: L...
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- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 1
Disinformation, polarization, growing economic inequality, attempts to undermine elections and the rights of women and racial minorities—all of the...
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- Added: Sep 09, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
Amid national outrage over the police killing of George Floyd in May of 2020, and other police-shootings of Black people, the movement to "defund t...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 29:00
Alan Wald's Literary Left Trilogy investigates aspects of intellectual, literary, and cultural movements and figures associated with left-wing poli...
- Added: Mar 23, 2021
- Length: 59:03
The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn’t simply to “build back better.” COVID-19 didn’...
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- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 3
Today we highlight exemplars: A. J. Muste, Mister Rogers, and Benjamin Lay. These were men who lived lives that challenged the expectations of thei...
- Added: Dec 24, 2019
- Length: 59:01
Wartime. Disaster. Trauma. Charges of mutiny for 50 Black sailors in a Jim Crow courtroom. Discrimination and a battle for civil rights. Listen to ...
Bought by KSFR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KVSC
- Added: Jul 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Using their own words to condemn them, Rob Larson exposes these intellectual opportunists for what they are: defenders of cruel power systems. Men ...
- Added: Dec 19, 2018
- Length: 59:01
As with our recent show on the 1954 Salt of the Earth, here is another “forgotten film” that seems a kind of impossibility. Made by a Spanish filmm...
- Added: Jul 24, 2018
- Length: 58:31
Today begins a series of three programs on guns in the USA: A Targeted Divide. Our first show is “Gunning Down the Bill of Rights,” how the 2nd Ame...
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- Added: Jul 04, 2018
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 1
From: Out of Bounds
Civil liberties attorney, educator, author of "Madison’s Music: On Reading the First Amendment"
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 28:00
Social security, health insurance, and unemployment insurance help Americans through life’s ups and downs. Benjamin Veghte explains the benefits an...
- Added: May 19, 2017
- Length: 24:39
In the 1900s, dictators rose to power across Europe as democracies fell to fascists and communists. History Professor Timothy Snyder argues that de...
- Added: May 10, 2017
- Length: 29:53
Development efforts in American cities often push out long-term residents and communities of color. Zeroing in on Baltimore, Professor Brandi Bless...
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- Added: Mar 31, 2017
- Length: 22:05
- Purchases: 1
From: Democracy In Crisis
In the latest episode of the Democracy in Crisis Podcast, hosts Baynard Woods and Marc Steiner speak with Ron Rosenbaum. He is the author of "Expla...
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- Added: Feb 08, 2017
- Length: 18:54
- Purchases: 1
On October 2 India will mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. But his status as an icon of humanitarianism may be at risk.
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- Added: Sep 27, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
Adrian Schoolcraft blew the whistle on the NYPD. For his trouble they had him suspended and put into a mental ward. The NYPD Tapes author Graham Ra...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 01:00:00
As 2014 draws to a close, Political Junkie Ken Rudin remembers the lawmakers and newsmakers from the world of politics who passed away this year. K...
Bought by 90.5 WSNC, WEZU, WCQS, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNC & The Colorado Sound and more
- Added: Dec 16, 2014
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 20
Capital is a giant, data-packed tome on income inequality covering three hundred years of history by the French economist Thomas Piketty. Is there ...
- Added: May 02, 2014
- Length: 58:35
A call to arms to protect business from the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the 1960s.
Bought by WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, and WRPI
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 53:29
- Purchases: 4
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview author and political activist David George Ball about his book, A Marked Heart, and the historic day he...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 27:30
Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 58:59
Historian Howard Zinn reflects on the conditions necessary to support democracy.
- Added: Nov 12, 2006
- Length: 28:55
