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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...

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Plagues Upon the Earth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kyle Harper
They’re rooted deeply in our global past. Germs. They’ve always been with us. It’s our wealth, health, power and inequity that determine how well w...

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  • Added: Oct 05, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean Plastics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Seth Blaustein
Massive wildfires, flooding and natural disasters: It’s obvious to most observers now that climate change is no hoax. But, most of us feel that the...

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  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
At Home in the World
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Book Cover, Credit: N. Putens
When the Sierra Club was created in 1892, its original mission was to preserve the wilderness. The men who formed the group under the leadership of...

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter T. Coleman
Once a segment of the population becomes miserable, stabilization begins. That shouldn’t be a goal in American politics, but it certainly seems lik...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Election Insiders
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Gloria Shur Bilchik
The American election system took a hit in 2016 when there were accusations that Russia had interfered. As if that weren’t enough, 2020 suspicions ...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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...

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Myths Surrounding COVID-19
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Helen Lee Bouygues
Americans are in a strange and unusual news cycle. For example, someone can state that hydroxychloroquine is a potential cure for COVID-19. Fox New...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
In Defense of Public Service
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cedric Alexander
The folks who do the behind-the-scenes work that keeps our country running have been frequently disparaged by the Trump administration. The “Deep S...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Abandoned Youth
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Anne Kim
The transition we experience between the close of our teenage years, and the dawn of adulthood is memorable for most of us. But for four-and-a-half...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Combating Fake News
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Helen Lee Bouygues
There are more incentives to spread fake information than not. Money can play a big factor, but there’s also that immature need to feel that you ca...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Vote for Us
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joshua A. Douglas
Imagine an election in the future that boasted turnout at record levels. Better access to voter registration and polling places. District lines and...

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  • Added: May 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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...

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  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The New Roberts Court
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: U.S. Constitution
The framers’ of the US Constitution had a vision of a balanced system. The balance was to be between the public and private spheres, between govern...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
On Behalf of the President
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Lauren A. Wright
First ladies have been a vital part of American policy and politics since the election of George Washington.

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Direct Action
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Direct Action, Credit: Verso
You’ve probably noticed quite a number of protests across America in recent weeks. Activists everywhere are speaking up. This is not spontaneous ac...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Tactical Performance
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: L.M. Bogad
At one time, all of us have witnessed a protest that is also theatrical. Whether it’s a sit in for equal rights in the 1960s, or the Yes Men infilt...

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  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Boy With a Knife
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Piece image
Twenty-four hundred years ago Romans understood the difference between the mind of a child and that of an adult. Somehow, America forgot that basic...

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tales from the South 106: Tin Roof Project Featuring Senator David Pryor
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2012 Fall Season
Caption: Senator David Pryor
This month's Tin Roof Project, featuring Senator David Pryor reading his story "Nine Miles to Mustin Lake," followed by Q&A. True stories told by t...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2012
  • Length: 42:38
Here on Earth: The Wisdom of Whores
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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Preview "Here on Earth," Wisconsin Public Radio's international talk program and podcast. In this edition, author Elizabeth Pisani talks with Jean ...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2008
  • Length: 52:36
Here on Earth: Fair Trade - Who's Delivering Your Milk? (Full Show)
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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Preview "Here on Earth," Wisconsin Public Radio's international talk program and podcast. In this edition, find out why farmers are turning to fai...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 52:34
  • Purchases: 2
Here on Earth: Fair Trade - Who's Delivering Your Milk? (Billboard)
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders
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The billboard for the "Here on Earth" program "Fair Trade - Who's Delivering Your Milk?"

Bought by KXOT Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Dec 19, 2006
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 2
Nobel laureate and economist Amartya Sen on "Identity and Violence" -- on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Amartya Sen, the distinguished economist, philosopher, Nobel laureate and Harvard professor, talks with ThoughtCast about "Identity and Violence:...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2006
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 1
Gloria Steinem lecture Hour 2
From: KUOW
Series: Speaker's Forum
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Hour 2 of two-hour lecture "If Women Mattered" by Gloria Steinem

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  • Added: May 17, 2006
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gloria Steinem lecture Hour 1
From: KUOW
Series: Speaker's Forum
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Hour 1 of two-hour lecture "If Women Mattered" by Gloria Steinem

Bought by WCPN and KERA


  • Added: May 17, 2006
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2