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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...

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Gender(s)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kathryn Bond Stockton
It’s a girl or a boy. That’s identifiable at birth. Binary. A biological inheritance. Today, however, when it comes to gender, we’re living in a fl...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption – Endangering Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frank Vogl
The average American knows corruption exists in every corner, but most of us are not aware of just how rampant it is. We know the tip of the iceber...

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  • Added: Nov 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Public Insult Playbook
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Ruth Colker
The rules of public discourse are not what they used to be. In fact, you can say, they are quite similar to what they used to be. Nevertheless, we ...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 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...

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  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Tax the Rich
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Morris Pearl
It’s in the tax code. And it’s the rich who manipulate that tax code. Over 70 percent of Americans believe that the economy is rigged to favor the ...

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  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
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
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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 ...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Are We the 99%: The Occupy Movement, Feminism and Intersectionality
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Heather Hurwitz
The Occupy movement of 2011 was thought to be unified. Although it created a foundation for future actions, the movement did perpetuate status-quo ...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Coastal Landfills Are No Match for Rising Seas
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dave Lindorff
It’s no longer out of sight out of mind. Many of our landfills have become a public health hazard. That’s especially true of those near a body of w...

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  • Added: Aug 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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Ross Barkan, THE PRINCE & Chuck Collins, THE WEALTH HOARDERS
From: Francesca Rheannon
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Governor Andrew Cuomo’s governing style isn’t just toxic—it’s incompetent. We talk with Ross Barkan about his book, The Prince: Andrew Cuomo, The C...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
Disruption: Why Things Change
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: David Potter
Throughout history governments rise and fall with varying degrees of success and failure. Democracies are not immune. It’s entirely unpredictable. ...

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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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...

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • 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
07-17: Backlash Moment: Converging at the Crossroads of Identity and Justice, 6/30/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Kimberle Crenshaw (foreground) with Eve Ensler
When Donald Trump rode a wave of white anxiety into the White House, it was part of a backlash to the Obama presidency, one that revealed an increa...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Period: End of Sentence
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Anita Diamant
When the book, Period: End of Sentence was brought to my attention, my first response was that this is a discussion between women. I have no busine...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
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Laura Eisenhower Discusses Covid-19, Vaccines and The Pandemic — Is there an alien agenda?
From: Ray Samuels
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Explore thought-provoking perspectives and insights on the pandemic with host Dr. Sam Dubé and special guest Laura Einsenhower.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:56:22
Tyranny of Experts
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: William Easterly
Around the world populist leaders or on the rise. The higher the poverty rate, the more likely a “benevolent autocrat” holds power. The problem is ...

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  • Added: Apr 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...

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  • 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...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Surmountable
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Surmountable, Credit: jacket cover
The American colonists sought a way of throwing off British rule so they protested. The struggle resulted in freedom for the people, the Bill of Ri...

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Abdul El Sayed & Micah Johnson, MEDICARE FOR ALL: A Citizen’s Guide & Norton Juster Remembered
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Dr. Micah Johnson and Dr. Abdul El Sayed about their book, Medicare For All: A Citizen’s Guide. Then, we remember Norton Juster, the ...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
American Awakening
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joshua Mitchell
As we examine the last four years of America’s political scene, there is a striking shift. To say that changes have occurred is an understatement. ...

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Education
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Critical Thinking is a set of skills that most students learn at a relatively early age. Even students who don’t do well in school are familiar wit...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1