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The Declaration Revisited: Native Americans
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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The anti-Native American sentiments within the Declaration of Independence, and where those same sentiments can be found today.

Bought by WRFA-LP and Boise State Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 17:43
  • Purchases: 2
The Big Myth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Naomi Oreskes
The Chicago school of economics lead to the phrase, there’s magic in the market. But, that magic, for many of those who invest, means an unrestrict...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Constitution
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: John R. Vile, Credit: newschannel5
The first clause of the First Amendment forbids Congress from adopting any laws tending to the establishment religion. Even with that definitive ve...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Compromise and Concessions
From: Rebecca McInroy
Series: American Compassion
Caption: American Compassion, Credit: Bonnie Siegler
Explore the complicated and rich history behind the compromises made in order to get the New Deal through, and what lasting consequences they have ...

Bought by KUT and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:38
  • Purchases: 2
Clash: Presidents and the Press in Times of Crisis
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jon Marshall
Former President Donald Trump attacked the press relentlessly before and after his term in office. A master at manipulation, he even admitted that ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, and KCBX


  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
2021 Producer’s Choice Awards – Part 2: The Poetry Show
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
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
AOC & Noam Chomsky: The Way Forward
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT profe...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Edward J. Watts
We’re hearing a lot of rhetoric about the decline of American society. Politicians cloak themselves in the need for a renewal to an America of the ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
All Societies Die
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Samuel Cohn
The adage: If one does not learn from the past, one is doomed to repeat it. Although that doesn’t mean people or their governments are going to rep...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
No Common Ground
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Karen Cox
Polarizing debates over the meaning behind Confederate monuments have intensified lately. There are legal battles to remove them. Legislative maneu...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
US Healthcare After Covid: What’s Next & How Could It Be Better?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Medicare for All Act was reintroduced into the U.S. House in March with a record number of cosponsors and public support. But while the idea of...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Confederate Monuments
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Connor Towne O'Neill
Separate but equal. That phrase came from the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896. It was a landmark decision known as Plessy v Ferguson that upheld the con...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joseph McCarthy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Larry Tye
On the evening of February 9, 1950, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy dramatically announced that he had a list of over 200 members of the Communis...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Island Stories
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Reynolds
The British and Americans have always had their similarities. More so now over the past four years. In 2016 The Brits voted to leave the European U...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Elaine Tyler May
Long before COVID-19, America emerged as the most armed, fortified, imprisoned and bunkered nation on the planet. Add to that, we’ve become tribal ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
You Don’t Understand the 2nd Amendment
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jonathan Hennessey
There’s a free, feature length documentary available online. Its purpose is to expose what the Founders of the American Constitution actually sai...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Crisis! When Political Parties Lose the Consent to Rule
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cedric de Leon
For a growing number of Americans, our current political realities are of increasing concern. Many are deeply puzzled about what we do in the near ...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fault Lines in the Constitution revisited
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Founding Fathers images
They are an unexpected husband and wife team: the Levinson’s. Sanford is a constitutional scholar. Cynthia is an award-winning author of children’...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Uncivil War on Richmond's Monument Avenue
From: Charles McGuigan
Caption: Protesters and counter protesters, Credit: Charles McGuigan
Pro-Confederates and white supremacists faced off with counter-demonstrators on America's largest outdoor Civil War museum on Monument Avenue in Ri...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 26:39
Exiled: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to California and Back
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Katya Cengel
Most of us have a basic understanding of events surrounding the Vietnam War. That understanding, however, is usually vague, and incomplete. Especia...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The End of Europe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: James Kirchick
Europe is in crisis. The continent we have known since the end of World War II is quickly changing.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Learning From a Master
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Richard J. Berstein
She didn’t like being called a philosopher, but that is how she’s recognized. And, as far as philosophy professor Richard J. Bernstein is concerned...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Luis Buñuel's The Young One: Anatomy of White Male Supremacy
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Actors Key Meersman and Zachary Scott in The Young One (1960)
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
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Serhii Plokhy
Twenty-five years before Fukushima the worst nuclear disaster occurred in the Soviet Union.

Bought by WUAL and KCBX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2