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Caption: Runaway Inequity , Credit: Labor Institute Press
It’s become a critical fact of life in America: Runaway inequality.

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ken Geiser
We are surrounded by chemicals every day. They’re in our clothing, cosmetics, household products, electronics, and even our children’s toys.

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Professor Eve Spangler
This is a follow up interview with sociology professor Eve Spangler on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestine.

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Rev. Steven Greenebaum
Interfaith. What does it actually mean to have dozens, or even hundreds of different religions come together under one roof?

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
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When Allan Johnson asked his dying father where he wanted his ashes scattered, his father replied, it didn’t matter. So began the journey. A journe...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Ira Chaliff
When you’re given instructions that you feel are morally wrong, do you speak up? A number of studies over the past 50-years conclude that the major...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Professor Victor Tan Chen
Victor Tan Chen, sociology professor at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has studied the plight of the American worker … from successf...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Joel Westheimer
All schools teach citizenship. But, the question becomes, “what kind of citizens are the schools trying to shape?”

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Martha M. Ertman
The ongoing controversy of same sex marriage reflects the dramatic impact the rule of law has on intimate partnerships. Today, those involved in fa...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: David Niose
According to author and attorney David Niose, American politics and public policy have been sliding in the direction of unreason. But, he says, a n...

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  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Susan Greenhalgh
America is in the midst of an obesity epidemic of catastrophic proportion. Today, two-thirds of adults, and one-third of children and adolescents –...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dr. Rob Garfield
For much of the past century, men have operated under “Male Code,” a rigid set of rules guiding their behavior that equate to masculinity with stoi...

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  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Professor William Damon
Over the past decade a science of morality has emerged. Its basic premise is that we have no choice with our moral actions. Our responses are built...

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  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Burt Neuborne
One of the nation’s foremost civil liberties lawyers challenges our understanding of how our democracy works with a radical new reading of a foundi...

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  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Book cover, Credit: Lyon Press
One Sunday afternoon in August 1965, on a day when baseball’s most storied rivals, the Giants and Dodgers, vied for the pennant, the national pasti...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 21:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Stephen Kurkjian
In March of 1990, the art world awoke to some shocking news. Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum was burglarized. The thieves were anything b...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Laurence J. Brahm
We have problem. Over 40-percent of the world’s population lives in poverty. Add to that our natural resources are quickly disappearing. Now mix in...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Christina Crook
Most of us can’t throw away our smartphone or cut ourselves off from the Internet. But we can rethink our relationship with the digital world.

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Eric Kingson
Americans’ pensions are gone. Housing is down and 401k are unreliable. But our Social Security system is totally funded for more than two decades.

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  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: School Violence, Credit: jacket cover design by Emily Osborne
More violence is committed in America than any other industrialized nation. Nowhere is that sad fact more prevalent than on our school grounds.

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Political Classroom jacket, Credit: Routledge Press
When politics is polarized, so is American Society. That, in turn, makes things more difficult for educators and students. It becomes riskier for t...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dr. Norman Doidge
Bestselling author Dr. Norman Doidge describes how neuroplasticity leads to healing in his newest book.

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2015
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Kathryn Miles
In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy smashed into the Eastern seaboard. A monster nobody was prepared to deal with.

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Janet Cheatham Bell
In her collection of essays, author and publisher Janet Cheatham Bell emphasizes our mutual dependency. It’s about identifying and using the power ...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: John Dominic Crossan
At the heart of the Bible, says New Testament scholar John Dominic Crossan, is a moral and ethical call to fight unjust superpowers, whether they a...

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  • Added: Dec 29, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1