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Is Putin a Tyrant?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Fiala
The question, “Is Putin a Tyrant” is a loaded one. After all, over the centuries leaders of all strips have been called tyrants. Realistically, the...

Bought by KFCF FM and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Standing Up to China: How a Whistleblower Risked Everything for his Country
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Ashley Yablon, Credit: Podcast
The life of a whistleblower is not easy. Just ask Dallas lawyer Ashley Yablon. In 2011 he landed what he thought was an ideal job: General Council ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Health Care’s Climate Change Contradiction
From: Tradeoffs
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The U.S. health care system is responsible for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. We discuss how health care contributes to climate ch...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 15:11
  • Purchases: 1
Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Stephen Zunes
Russia invades Crimea in 2014. Eight years later they attack Ukraine. In the meantime, President Biden emphatically states “any use of force to cha...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tyranny from Plato to Trump: Fools, Sycophants, and Citizens
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Fiala
Bullies are everywhere in all societies and at all levels. The worst of the bullies are those who hold power over the state and its people. They be...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Off the Edge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kelly Weill
It’s an age-old conundrum. Getting the facts to the people. Think of the telephone game. As the story passes through several tellers, distortions a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
13-15: Ecstatic Revolt: The New Mythos of Eve, 3/16/2022
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Eve Ensler, Credit: Brigitte Lacombe
As the creation story of Judeo-Christian beliefs, the biblical recounting of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden has long had profound influence aro...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Where Are the Books for Boys? A Conversation With Teacher Misty Jobe and Writer Will Weaver
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
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Who is being represented in new books? We are celebrating and lifting diverse voices in new books, those that have long been silenced but in doing ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 14:21
05-15: Archetypes in Every Woman: Renaissance of the Feminine, 3/9/2022
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Jean Shinoda Bolen
Archetypal stories guide our lives in profound and largely unconscious ways. Through reframing classic mythologies, we explore the resurgence of th...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 28:31
Coronavirus Criminals
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: John Nichols
Since the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak, one in five Americans have been infected. Nearly one million have died. Nurses, doctors, bus drive...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Secret IRS Files
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jesse Eisinger, Credit: ProPublica
According to sociologists, one of the primary keys for predicting societal unrest is inequality. The deeper the monetary divide the higher the like...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Beyond Knowledge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: William Halal
For the past 20-years or so, our society has been deep in the Knowledge Age. Now, it’s about to be replaced by the digital revolution and artificia...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cutting Edge Musical Performances Coming to the Cedar
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Robert Lehman, Credit: Robert Lehman
The Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis and the Jerome Foundation partner each year to present the Cedar Commission, two nights of performances fe...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2022
  • Length: 08:00
Your Neighborhood in your Hands: A Model from the South Bronx
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Real estate development conjures up images of gentrification with sleek buildings and polished store fronts often built under the guise of urban re...

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


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
70 Million: Taking Mental Health Crises Out of Police Hands
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Asantewaa Boykin, co-founder of the Anti Police-Terror Project, program director for MH First Sacramento, and an ER nurse, poses for a photo at her home in Sacramento., Credit: Photo by Sara Nevis.
Police encounters during a mental health crisis have a greater chance of turning deadly if you're Black. New response mechanisms bypass law enforce...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
Born in Blackness part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Howard W. French, Credit: Guardian
It’s just possible that our understanding of history is seen through a distorted lens. We think we know how the modern world was made. But, keep in...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
WorldCanvass: The Global Implications of MeToo
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Prominent feminist scholars join WorldCanvass host Joan Kjaer in a discussion of “The Global Implications of MeToo.” With expertise on MeToo in th...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Feb 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:26:10
  • Purchases: 1
Born in Blackness
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Howard W. French
Most of us know very little about the history of the African American. Their contribution to our culture and society is rich and multilayered that...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Mind of the Censor and The Eye of the Beholder
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Robert Corn-Revere
When you think about it, we’re all censors in one form or another. Then there are those who make a profession of it. For many of those, it becomes ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dismantlng Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Donald Cohen
Unprecedented concentrations of wealth. Fundamental changes in the economy. A weakened institutional government, making it more difficult to meet p...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 17, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations: Michele Harper, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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The emergency room is a place of intensity—a place of noise and colors and human drama. This is the setting of Dr. Michele Harper's memoir, The Bea...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 36:02
The Tailored Brain
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Emily Willingham
It’s a conundrum. A puzzle. A very strange thing if you think about it. But, there in itself lies the problem. We’re thinking about and studying th...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Privatization of Everything
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Donald Cohen
Democracy is more efficient, and equally distributed when public goods are created. Things like free education, public health, open parks, clean wa...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrea Press
The #MeToo movement burst into the headlines in the fall of 2017. What kept people gravitating to the stories was the list of celebrity sexual pred...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
An Illustrated Business History of the United States
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Richard Vague
The story of American business is the story of real estate. More than two hundred years of seizing, claiming, settling and developing. And, the col...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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