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Noted feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the dawning of her feminist consciousness in waves. Daughter of a communist, Aptheker had to throw...
- Added: Mar 25, 2024
- Length: 57:00
Liz Cheney shares the enthralling details from her book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, of defending the Constitution while inside the Cap...
- Added: Mar 18, 2024
- Length: 25:14
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
In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT profe...
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- Added: Oct 28, 2021
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 4
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
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
Cynthia Canty talks with journalist Bob Giles, author of "When Truth Mattered."
Bought by WKAR, WCMU Michigan, WNMU-FM, and Michigan Radio
- Added: Nov 15, 2020
- Length: 54:30
- Purchases: 4
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
Francesca talks with Glenn Silber about the acclaimed documentary he co-directed, The War At Home. It’s about the anti-war movement in Madison, Wis...
- Added: May 07, 2019
- Length: 59:01
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
We talk with historian Timothy Snyder about his book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. The book is a kind of vaccine to inocul...
- Added: Jul 06, 2017
- Length: 01:58:02
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
Money and politics have never been like oil and water. We explain why on this edition of "History Talk."
- Added: Aug 27, 2015
- Length: 05:00
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
This week in history looks back to April 1987 and the Republican race to succeed Ronald Reagan. This week, Jack Kemp, a longtime Congressman and fo...
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 04:40
In his first Book former Newark Mayor Sharpe James write about his career as the leader of New Jersey's largest City and has good things to say abo...
- Added: Nov 13, 2013
- Length: 54:00
