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Capital is a giant, data-packed tome on income inequality covering three hundred years of history by the French economist Thomas Piketty. Is there ...
- Added: May 02, 2014
- Length: 58:35
We’re somewhere between the legend and the facts of the U.S. economy. The legend, still in our heads, is it’s a rough-and-tumble democracy and a c...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 58:35
- Purchases: 1
Harvey Milk, first gay elected official in San Francisco, was assassinated in 1978. The Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus, which has been performing for...
- Added: Mar 22, 2014
- Length: 05:02
President Obama wants the minimum wage raised to $10.10 an hour. Conservatives claim it will destroy entry level jobs for new workers. They're wro...
- Added: Mar 13, 2014
- Length: 02:30
Bobby Righi, Tom Lux, and Kristen Biefus of Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action (PSARA), Just Transition, Part 3
- Added: Jan 17, 2014
- Length: 28:10
It's been forty-one years since the landmark Roe V. Wade decision legalized abortion in the U.S. But foes have never stopped in their quest to ove...
- Added: Jan 16, 2014
- Length: 02:30
On November 19th citizens of Albuquerque, New Mexico, will vote on the first city-level 20 week abortion ban in the U.S., with no exceptions for r...
- Added: Nov 13, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Two and one half minute commentary on why House Republicans took their 40th meaningless vote to repeal Obamacare before getting out of town for a 5...
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 02:30
As Burma transitions from dictatorship to democracy, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed after decades behind bars. On this edition, we...
- Added: May 02, 2013
- Length: 29:00
The 2013 South By South West Film Festival, in Austin, Texas, is the setting for this Fresh Talk feature. Cathy Byrd meets filmmakers Mike Lerner a...
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 12:24
Curious about how the Dept of Energy is spending your money? Where did all those billions in Recovery Act money go? What financial incentives are t...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 21:26
A call to arms to protect business from the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the 1960s.
Bought by WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, and WRPI
- Added: Dec 04, 2012
- Length: 53:29
- Purchases: 4
This election felt divisive and strident and the feelings today are those of the victors and the losers, joyous and excitement for those that won, ...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 49:10
In her new book, Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how US election reforms have been manipulated for partisan advantage and establishes a ne...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
The premier of Beyond the Spin, a new weekly program focusing on issues relating to the 2012 elections with community radio hosts and reporters fro...
Bought by KRCB 104.9, WVAS, KVNF, KVMR, and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Aug 09, 2012
- Length: 55:13
- Purchases: 5
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview author and political activist David George Ball about his book, A Marked Heart, and the historic day he...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 27:30
Northeast Ohio is considering building a new gasification plant. don't call it trash burning.
- Added: Mar 12, 2012
- Length: 28:38
News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.
- Added: Nov 11, 2011
- Length: 29:00
John Hickenlooper discusses his efforts to use the arts to revitalize Denver and promote economic development and increased livability.
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 23:37
Sharp-talking political economist Mark Blyth is back in the Glasgow pub, so we say, and he's expounding on the melt-down that's still melting down ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 02, 2011
- Length: 08:56
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 06, 2011
- Length: 29:00
This hour we sit with Lydia Davis as she reads her beautifully honed, firecracker prose. She writes in the company of Montaigne, Emerson, Proust, B...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 58:59
This week we're talking with the soldier-turned-author of Washington Rules, Andrew Bacevich. Then we sit down at the piano with the jazz improv sta...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Sep 23, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 30, 2010
- Length: 28:22
- Purchases: 1
