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Presidential Leadership (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency marked the beginning of United States imperialism. Matt Oyos explains how Roosevelt modernized the military to bols...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRDP and more


  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Presidential Leadership (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency marked the beginning of United States imperialism. Matt Oyos explains how Roosevelt modernized the military to bols...

Bought by KXCV, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 29, 2020
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
WorldCanvass: Pursuing Racial Justice
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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A wide-ranging discussion about the pursuit of racial justice in a historically white institution like the University of Iowa; racial barriers that...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 01:27:08
Voting in Indian Country
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jean Reith Schroedel
When we hear about voter suppression, we usually think of the multiple attempts at preventing blacks from voting. What we seldom hear about are the...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Pandemic Election (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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If you think poll taxes and literacy tests are voting barriers of the past, think again.

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 13
The Pandemic Election (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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If you think poll taxes and literacy tests are voting barriers of the past, think again.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KRDP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WJCT, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
The Pandemic Election (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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If you think poll taxes and literacy tests are voting barriers of the past, think again.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 4
2016: Climate Ambition with Gina McCarthy, Annie Leonard, and Tamara Toles O’Laughlin, 10/16/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Environmental groups like NRDC, 350.org, and Greenpeace helped move climate onto the presidential agenda last year, pushing Joe Biden and other Dem...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
Patriots of Two Nations
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Spencer Critchley
A well run democracy takes a lot of work on the part of the citizenry. People need to be informed. In America today, there is a rising brand of lib...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Independents
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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What prevents someone from affiliating with a political party? What is the ideology of an independent? And how can these voters exist in a two part...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 19:21
  • Purchases: 1
The New Republican Party - a Reagan-era Republican reflects on Trump
From: Brian Bahouth
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Greg Brower became a Republican while a student at the University of California Berkeley, during the Reagan era. Brower has served in both the Neva...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2020
  • Length: 20:52
Prison By Any Other Name
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Maya Schenwar
There is a litany of names for what is understood to be substitutes for jail or prison. Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment facilitie...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Returning Civility to Political Discourse
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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National polling in recent years has consistently reported that 2/3rds of those polled feel that there’s a major problem with civility in our natio...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Jul 31, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Returning Civility to Political Discourse (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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National polling in recent years has consistently reported that 2/3rds of those polled feel that there’s a major problem with civility in our natio...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KWMR, and KUNM


  • Added: Jul 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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
Say I'm Dead
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: E. Dorolas Johnson
Most of us wish to know our family history. Our ancestry. It’s part of understanding and coming to terms with our own identity. But, what if there ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Industrial Strength Denial
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Barbara Freese
Corporations have a very long history of denying wrongdoing. Think Wells Fargo, Volkswagen, Exxon Mobile. The list is lengthy. In fact ,the persist...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • 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
Decline of Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Shawn Rosenberg
Political historians see the last half of the 20th century as the golden age of democracy. In the last few years, however, there has been a remarka...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kent State
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Deborah Wiles
On May 4, 1970, four Kent State University students were killed and nine were wounded by National Guardsmen. The students were unarmed. The Guard w...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: May 05, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
News In Context: News Coverage of COVID-19, with Ed Beebout & Anne Belden
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: COVID 19 Word Cloud, Credit: EpicTop10.com
In this episode, we explore how the news media is doing in covering COVID-19 – including the responses of public officials… the data on infections ...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
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
No Option But North
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: book cover
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


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

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