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Is the US a democracy or a republic? And why do we only have two dominant political parties?

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:32
  • Purchases: 1
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The line between fairly splitting a state into voting districts, and purposely grouping voters to give one party an advantage.

Bought by WKSU and Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 2
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A wave of recent legislation across the country promised to make our elections "more secure." Where did this suspicion of our voting process come f...

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 1
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In preparation for the upcoming election, we’re going to talk about lies, manipulation, and confusion.

Bought by WHFR and Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 2
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We vote for our leaders, and those leaders represent our interests, but the impact of your vote isn't always so clear. Here's why you should vote a...

Bought by WKSU, KSKA, and Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 3
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A bold experiment is taking place among Black farmers in the Southeast — a story of hope in an area with a history of plantation slavery, land thef...

Bought by Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, WNYE, and KWMR


  • Added: Jul 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Message From RBG
A Supreme Court mashup highlighting the continuing struggle for Woman's Rights with music and history colliding once again--Statements on Roe versu...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 01:57:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Food justice is the notion that everyone should have access to healthful food as well as the opportunity to grow, market and serve it. It’s also th...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Nov 18, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Buffalo, New York, was once a booming industrial town fueled by cheap power from Niagara Falls, a center of commerce and trade, the first city in t...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Is being rural a pre-existing vulnerability in this crisis? Equipped with a mask and a selfie stick, Laura Flanders reports (from a responsible dis...

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


  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the inf...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Take a knee, and try to understand the politics of sports...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:20:18
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On the next More to Say, we’re picking up on a conversation we started last week about affordable housing in Utah. This time it’s all about tiny ho...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2018
  • Length: 14:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Goodbye Village Voice
A look back at the last twelve months, a retrospective of a truly transitional year with a disturbing loss of morals, constitution values and major...

Bought by 'The Sea', Indie3 Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KDUR, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 13
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Interview with Barbara Reynolds,founding editor of USA Today on her 2017 book My Life, My Love, My Legacy biography of Coretta King, condensed from...

Bought by WMMT and WVAS


  • Added: Feb 09, 2017
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Rewriting the Sentence: College Behind Bars
After an abrupt reversal 20 years ago, some prisons and colleges try to maintain college education for prisoners.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, Interlochen Public Radio, KUER, WSKG and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: What It Takes: Chasing Graduation in High-Poverty High Schools
The nation's high school graduation rate is at an all-time high, but high-poverty schools face a stubborn challenge. Schools in Miami and Pasadena ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KOSU, WAER Syracuse, NY, WSKG, WRIR and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 17
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A get-tough attitude prevailed among educators in the 1980s and 1990s, but research shows that zero-tolerance policies don't make schools safer and...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KOSU, WSKG, KUER, WRIR and more


  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: College students increasingly caught in remedial education trap, Credit: Lila Cherneff
A system meant to give college students a better shot at succeeding is actually getting in the way of many, costing them time and money and taking ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, KOSU, KFCF FM, WSKG and more


  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 21
Caption: A student hangs a flag outside the veteran’s center at Pasadena City College., Credit: Stephen Smith
The GI Bill of 1944 revolutionized the lives of millions of young veterans, America’s institutions of higher education, and American society at lar...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, WHRV, KAZU Seaside, Calif., KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
From: WAMU
Series: Latitudes
Caption: Commuting to Syria., Credit: Courtesy of Tom A. Peter
Moving up, moving home, and moving your body. In Latitudes’ On the Move special we’ll sample many varieties of mobility. From self-deportation to ...

Bought by KUOW and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 51:28
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: A resident of Chicago's 49th Ward., Credit: Melissa Beck
A timely one-hour special, hosted by NPR's Scott Simon, that tells stories of American democracy at the local level. We listen in as people wrestle...

Bought by KPIK-LP, XRAY.fm, Nevada Public Radio, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KRCU Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 30, 2012
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 79
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Here it is, another new show! This time we speak with George Bradley. He is a master of herpetology, meaning he collects, manages, identifies and p...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 28:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rising sea levels and extreme weather conditions threaten the nation's coastal towns, Credit: Jan Sturmann
The San Francisco Bay is a place of beauty and biological diversity. But sea level rise and extreme weather will change human life along its coastl...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 20
Caption: Steve Mello is a farmer on Tyler Island in the San Francisco Bay Delta, Credit: Jan Sturmann
Rising waters threaten the lands of a farmer and of a developer, yet they and their families dismiss all warnings of danger. Why are so many of us ...

Bought by WHRV, KAAD-LP, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WHRV, WRIR and more


  • Added: Sep 09, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18