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There is a litany of names for what is understood to be substitutes for jail or prison. Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment facilitie...
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- Added: Sep 15, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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Imagine the challenges of advising a president … any president … of the United States. Even in the best of times, it can mean a great deal of press...
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- Added: Jul 20, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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A myriad of issues have come to light as we deal with the COVID pandemic. We are discovering weaknesses in our health care and workforce. Neither i...
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- Added: Jul 14, 2020
- Length: 28:59
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On the evening of February 9, 1950, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy dramatically announced that he had a list of over 200 members of the Communis...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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Most of us wish to know our family history. Our ancestry. It’s part of understanding and coming to terms with our own identity. But, what if there ...
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- Added: Jun 23, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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The British and Americans have always had their similarities. More so now over the past four years. In 2016 The Brits voted to leave the European U...
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- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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Political historians see the last half of the 20th century as the golden age of democracy. In the last few years, however, there has been a remarka...
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- Added: May 19, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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On May 4, 1970, four Kent State University students were killed and nine were wounded by National Guardsmen. The students were unarmed. The Guard w...
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- Added: May 05, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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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...
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- Added: Apr 28, 2020
- Length: 29:01
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Long before COVID-19, America emerged as the most armed, fortified, imprisoned and bunkered nation on the planet. Add to that, we’ve become tribal ...
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- Added: Apr 21, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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Most of us at one time or another ask the question, “Why would people walk hundreds of miles to the U.S. boarder knowing they will probably be turn...
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- Added: Apr 14, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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There’s a free, feature length documentary available online. Its purpose is to expose what the Founders of the American Constitution actually sai...
- Added: Apr 08, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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The University of California Santa Cruz wildcat strike for a cost of living adjustment - an action that has been gaining traction across the whole ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2020
- Length: 59:01
One of the most important things about living in a democracy is the ability to vote. Yet, according to author and syndicated radio host Thom Hartma...
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- Added: Feb 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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It’s well understood that our environment affects our behavior. Realistically, though, it works both ways. Our behavior profoundly impacts our envi...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 29:01
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America is facing challenging times. This much chaos and confusion has not been witnessed since the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and ‘70s. As...
- Added: Jan 07, 2020
- Length: 29:00
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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...
- Added: Dec 30, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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We like to think of America as a country that, until recently, welcomes immigrants. In reality, that’s never been the case. You may have read abou...
- Added: Dec 22, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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A general tendency among those who study human behavior is to identify two separate groups of mental predators.
- Added: Nov 06, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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An act of oppression comes in many forms. Government, household, work environment, and even friendships. It happens when one group or person exerci...
- Added: Oct 29, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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Mixing history with poetic metaphor is not an easy task. Especially when the subject involves separate cultures, different languages, and vastly ch...
- Added: Sep 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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We spend the hour with science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist, Cory Doctorow. First, we talk with him about his terrific new boo...
- Added: Sep 06, 2019
- Length: 59:01
How we deal with the possibilities of tomorrow are very dependent on how we handle those possibilities today. Sounds simple, however, even when we ...
- Added: Sep 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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We think we know a lot. Perhaps we do. On the other hand, an ongoing study at Yale University finds that today’s society thinks it knows more than ...
- Added: Aug 27, 2019
- Length: 29:00
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No matter where you are in the world, you’re confronted by violence. One study shows that over half of our population is very concerned about the c...
- Added: Aug 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
