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The Twitter Presidency
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Brian Ott
No president has used social media quite like President Trump. Twitter is his instrument of choice, and more often than not, he uses the popular pl...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Prison (March 8, 2019)
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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The prison experience reflected in poetry and music.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2019
  • Length: 01:00:50
Raising White Kids
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Jennifer Harvey
America is one of the most racially diverse nations in the world. We’re also a country full of racial tension. These conflicting truths make it esp...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 01, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Southside Aces Play for Wild and Crazy Mardi Gras
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Southside Aces, Credit: Jonathan Hankin
The Southside Aces specializes in New Orleans music, and that means they prepare big time for Mardi Gras. Interviewer Phil Nusbaum sat down to talk...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
End Medical Debt
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jerry Ashton
Nearly 2-million people will be declaring bankruptcy this year. It’s not because they are careless with their expenses. The cause is unpaid medical...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Defense of Freedom
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Peter L.P. Simpson
Illiberalism. Now that’s a word you just don’t hear very often. If it sounds like a play on liberalism, you’re right. It’s the lack, or even oppos...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 08, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
How Democracies Die
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Steven Levitsky
Democracies around the world are struggling. Autocratic regimes are on the rise. Now, America’s democratic structures are showing signs of stress.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 03, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Yohannes Tona’s Music About Immigrating from Ethiopa this Weekend in St Paul
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Zeitgeist, Credit: Zoe Prinds-Flash
Zeitgeist, the St Paul new music group presents Yohannes Tona’s music and poetry reflecting on Yonannes’ journey from Ethiopia to the United States...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2019
  • Length: 08:00
Green New Deal, Yellow Vests
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Activists at all levels of the climate justice movement discuss how inter-generational, cross-coalition, and global organizing is taking control of...

Bought by KDNK and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Sparking Prosperity
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Robert E. Friedman
The financial crash of 2008 hit middle and working class families especially hard. They are still struggling.

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and KCBX


  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
How Fascism Works
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Jason Stanley
When the people of a country become severely divided, it becomes easier for power to fall into the iron grip of fascism. All it takes is well-desig...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poets and NEA Fellows Hadara Bar-Nadav & Kathryn Nuernberger
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poets Hadara Bar-Nadav and Kathryn Nuernberger, who were both chosen as 2017 NEA Literary Fellows, talk about their work in this interview at the K...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Snap 1001: This Is Not A Drill, 1/10/2019
From: Snap Judgment
Series: Snap Judgment Weekly
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On the next all-NEW Snap… “This Is Not A Drill”. For 38 minutes in 2018, Hawaiians thought their world was about to end.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
Ensuring Poverty
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Felicia Kornbluh
A central idea of feminism is “Looking at the world as if women matter.” Yet, during the most important public policy debate about women and povert...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
11-14: Art As Social Change: Birthing the Dawn Of A New Day, 1/9/2019
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Climbing Poetree & John Densmore, Credit: Jan Mangan
“Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it,” as Bertolt Brecht said. Shoot the rapids of art and social change wi...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
Hoaxer: Young Veteran Modern Jazz
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Hoaxer, Credit: Lee Tran
Hoaxer is a band made up of Edmund Catlin, Peter Goggin, Will Kjeer and Charlie Lincoln. The band formed when all the players were Twin Cities high...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
The Write Question - Jim Williams - 357
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Wildlife biologist and author, Jim Williams, discusses his book, "Path of the Puma: The Remarkable Resilience of the Mountain Lion." He also reads ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KRZA


  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
National Writers Series: Diana Gabaldon
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Diana Gabaldon talks about her "Outlander" series of books with Deb Leonard.

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Dec 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2
National Writers Series: Richard Clarke
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Long-time presidential adviser Richard Clarke talks about his latest book, "Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes" with retired diploma...

Bought by WCMU Michigan, Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WDET Detroit Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 4
America First
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Bradley W. Hart
In September 1941, a hero-celebrity stood before a crowd in Iowa and emphatically stated the words, “America First.” Charles Lindbergh was the spea...

Bought by KFCF FM and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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The home ownership gap continues to widen.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Discussing the Largest Event on Planet Earth
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Catherine Shakdam and Hanan Al-Zubaidy
John Shuck speaks with Hanan Al-Zubaidy and Catherine Shakdam about his recent trip to Iraq for Arbaeen

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Nov 12, 2018
  • Length: 56:02
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Sharon Akabas, PhD, Dir. of MS Program, Columbia Institute of Human Nutrition
From: Louis Erlanger
Series: Scientists Are Human
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Dr. Sharon Akabas, PhD, Director of the MS Program at the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition, talks about her early interest in educa...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2018
  • Length: 34:02
Sivertson Gallery Inuit Premiere guests join The Roadhouse
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Caption: Throat singers Nina Segalowitz and Taqralik Partridge, Credit: Sivertson Gallery
Some of the featured guests at the 2018 Sivertson Gallery Inuit Premiere included throat singers Nina Segalowitz and Taqralik Partridge, artist and...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 24:47
This is an Uprising
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paul Engler
Central Coast Bioneers held its first conference in San Luis Obispo in 2010. Looking at their mission statement, It reads … To create a resilient a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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