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Thousands of people are heading to Glasgow, Scotland for COP26, the annual U.N. Climate Change Conference, and among them are two local indigenous ...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
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Tenants who fell behind on the rent during the pandemic are able to get federal, state and local programs to pay directly to their landlord, but m...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
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The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most diverse in the U.S., but that diversity is rarely seen in the make-up of the region's political leade...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:27
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Our guest is Brett Story, author of Pison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America and award-winning filmmaker of The Prison in Twelv...

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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With as much as 85% of US jobs now classed in the service sector, where concepts like productivity are hard if not impossible to measure, can autom...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:05
  • Purchases: 1
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About 70 percent of Americans - Democrats, Independents and Republicans - say the election caused a significant amount of stress. That’s up from ab...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
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The 2020 campaign season has finally come to a close. And days after November 3rd has passed, the country is still reeling. About seventy percent o...

Bought by WDSE, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Map of the 17th District of the US House of Representatives
Project manager and software engineer Rick Kennedy is running for US House Representative for District 17 in Texas, in the 2020 Democratic primary....

  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 41:58
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In her new book, After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration, today’s guest Holly Jean Buck charts a possible course to a liveab...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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Humans are simply a catastrophe considered from the perspective of the non-human. We breed and kill at least 100 billion animals per year for food ...

  • Added: Jan 08, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
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The so-called Anthropocene continues to be caused by only a small portion of the people on the planet, following hierarchies of race, gender, class...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
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We talk with John McCutcheon about his album: To Everyone in All the World: A Celebration of Pete Seeger.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
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Using their own words to condemn them, Rob Larson exposes these intellectual opportunists for what they are: defenders of cruel power systems. Men ...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
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Red states, blue states – when it comes to our environment, are we really two different Americas? New Yorker writer Eliza Griswold spent time in so...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, Prairie Public, KWIT, KFOI Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: "Act for America" (anti-Muslim rally), Lansing, Michigan, Credit: Theresa Rosado
For our second show in our three-part series, A Targeted Divide, we bring you “Crime, Decline, and the Rise of the Citizen-Protector: How the Meani...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jul 07, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Logistics, the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption, logistics, has its origins in military ca...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:14
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Photographer and essayist Allan Sekula was a critic of capitalism and an influential theorist of documentary photography and photojournalism. In "S...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 58:19
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For this first Tuesday of LGBT Pride Month we bring you, “Straightening Gayness: Mainstream Representation Under the Male Gaze” about television’s ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The execution of Robespierre and his supporters on 28 July 1794.
What comes to the fore in this conversation with Rebecca Spang is that the French Revolution is likely best thought of as a civil war and in that ...

  • Added: May 02, 2018
  • Length: 58:37
Caption: Mark Zuckerberg at The Original Pat's King of Steaks in Philadelphia (9/24/17). Posted on Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page.
Will Davies, author of the Happiness Industry, has written in the London Review of Books that “Destroying privacy in ever more adventurous ways is ...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 58:18
Caption: Burawoy holds his class outside - lecturing on social theory to his students who wanted to show their support for protest against increasing tuition and fees in 2011.
The public University as we know it is in crisis, as business prerogatives overtake its values and executive-style leadership eats away at its budg...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: Mug shot taken in 1901 when Goldman was implicated in the assassination of President McKinley.
Our show today is Anarchy is Intersectional: Learning from Emma Goldman. Goldman, a feminist anarchist, was disdainful of what is now called “Lean ...

Bought by KBBI Alaska and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 2
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Across the globe it was a year of countless uprisings. In the US it was the year of police violence against protesters at the Chicago Democratic Co...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2018
  • Length: 58:56
Caption: "The Magnicent Five": (from left) Henryk Wujec, Lech Dymarski, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Jacek Kuro?, Jan Rulewski. , Credit: Photo by Jan Krzysztof Kelus.
Dance in Chains, traces the history of modern political imprisonment from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century and draws on examples from regi...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:28
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From within this crucible the revolutionary theorist, ruthless Red Army commander and plausible dictator in waiting, leader of the left opposition ...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:02