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Ever Wonder The Reason It Took So Long for the IRS to Offer an Online Tax Preparation App? Big Money Lobbying.

From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute

Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report

Ever Wonder The Reason It Took So Long for the IRS to Offer an Online Tax Preparation App? Big Money Lobbying.

Bought by WUTC and KICI Iowa City

Top of Mind - How American Boys and Men are Falling Behind

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

American boys and men are falling behind. Have we accidentally overlooked their struggles?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KMXT, and RADIOLEX

Life after Parkland: A victim’s dad turns to art and activism

From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf

On this episode of Audacious, meet Manuel Oliver. He's the father of Joaquin, who was one of 17 murdered students and teachers in Parkland, Florida...

Bought by WGCU

Episode 166: Going Deep with Pete Buttigieg on Social Mobility, 11/12/2023

From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders

making a life that works

Of Parents and School Boards

From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned

Over the past few years, school board races have become more heated and more political — and books have become the center of that political storm. ...

Top of Mind - Benefits of Social Relationships: Mending Fractures and Widening Our Circles

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

We often hear about the mental and physical health benefits of social relations. But can relationships also be a way to heal our societal divisions?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, RADIOLEX, KOWS, WYAP and more

Top of Mind - Lost in Politics: Finding Ways to Stay Engaged When Neither Party Fits

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

How to stay engaged in democracy when neither major political party feels like home.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RadioStPete Florida, KOWS, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more

World in Progress 06/02/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: Latin America's struggle with abortion - Argentina made history by becoming the largest Latin American country to legali...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)

World in Progress 03/03/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: Making Cape Town's Hanover Park a better place - Unemployment in Cape Town's neighborhood Hanover Park is high, gun shots ...

Celebration & Polarization, Holiday Survival Kit (Part 1): Deflating Political Football

From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast

Our featured guest, social psychologist Tania Israel, thinks not and should know. Dr. Israel has been holding workshops over the past two decades t...

In Junction

From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor

Today we're headed to the Junction neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio to talk to Alicia Smith. She's the executive director of The Junction Coalition, a ...

Emotion Roadmap John Wood Braver Angels 2 10 21

From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel

Caption: Let's Work Together to Make Life Better

John Wood Jr. is National Ambassador for Braver Angels, volunteer citizens committed to respectful dialog and depolarization. He invokes elements ...

Broke in America

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Caption: Broke in Aemerica, Credit: jacket design by Pete Garceau

Approximately twelve percent of America’s population living in poverty. That’s not including those who barely make it month to month. Some see pove...

Bought by KCBX

Megan Lott Interview

From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio

Did you know that 40 million fellow Americans, or at least one in nine households experience food insecurity? (These numbers are before the impact ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

No Option But North

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

Most of us at one time or another ask the question, “Why would people walk hundreds of miles to the U.S. boarder knowing they will probably be turn...

Bought by KCBX

Mimi Lemay, WHAT WE WILL BECOME & Senator Sherrod Brown, DESK 88

From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice

We talk with Mimi Lemay about her powerful memoir of a family with a transgender child, What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Tran...

Powerarchy

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

An act of oppression comes in many forms. Government, household, work environment, and even friendships. It happens when one group or person exerci...

Bought by KCBX, KCBX, and KRZA

Nurturing Our Humanity

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

No matter where you are in the world, you’re confronted by violence. One study shows that over half of our population is very concerned about the c...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX

120: How to Fight Like A Mother-Shannon Watts, Moms Demand Action

From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

There have been over 200 mass shootings in this country since 2009. Shannon Watts, the author of a new book, "Fight Like a Mother" is the founder o...

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, Louisville Public Media, WNIN, KWIT and more

118: Paid Leave For All - Katie Bethell says “we can win this.”

From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller

America is one of only two countries in the world where you can be fired for taking a day off in order to give birth (let that sink in for a moment...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KKRN, KUT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

Sparking Prosperity

From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices

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

Strtong Women: Sandy Layman

From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Strong Women

Heidi Holtan talks with Representative Sandy Layman. In this interview we learn about the thread that ties Sandy's work in public service and in co...