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The novelist David Foster Wallace once said, “Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” This week on Sea Change ...
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- Added: Aug 30, 2023
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In Part Two of my conversation with Chesa Boudin, we explore how his experiences as a child have informed his approach to criminal justice, and his...
- Added: Jun 29, 2023
- Length: 29:30
As the news that thirty year-old cryptocurrency baron, Sam Bankman-Fried‘s, FTX empire suddenly collapsed, the residual effects reverberated in the...
- Added: Nov 30, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick talks about polarization in the U.S. and his improbable American journey.
- Added: Sep 13, 2022
- Length: 31:26
What comes to mind when you hear the words “crime” and “safety?” For many, these words evoke images of poor people stealing things, or police enfor...
- Added: Aug 09, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Are you weary of having to care about where headline-seeking Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema land on important topics? Well, according to t...
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Applying a GOP history lesson to our current political moment
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- Added: Aug 02, 2022
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It’s no secret that polarization is deepening divides across the US. Over the past few years, many people have started or joined what are called br...
- Added: Jul 21, 2022
- Length: 29:30
If California progressives were a tortilla brand, they’d be delicious but expensive and inaccessible. By contrast, establishment Democratic tortill...
- Added: Jun 21, 2022
- Length: 31:46
A leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade has health care providers scrambling. We talk with an OB-GYN at the University...
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- Added: May 05, 2022
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In this episode, we continue exploring the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - or as our guest, political scientist Dr. Kathryn Stoner, clari...
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- Added: Mar 25, 2022
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In this episode, we explore the historical and geo-political context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as the role and actions of NATO.
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- Added: Mar 17, 2022
- Length: 29:30
In the film adaptation of The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss, the unscrupulous Aloysius O’Hare sells oxygen. The audience is shocked and dismayed by this want...
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- Added: Jun 29, 2021
- Length: 29:00
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We are on the brink of the hottest months of the year. For those of us in California this means getting ready for the nuisance of rolling blackouts...
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- Added: Jun 16, 2021
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In this episode, we explore the role and power of language - words and phrases - in how we discuss the issues that affect us and that drive our new...
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore the current state of news, and how the way news is presented in the U.S. has shifted during the pandemic, including a g...
- Added: Apr 09, 2021
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore how Asian Americans are framed in mainstream news and media, and how that framing informs our understanding and discour...
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- Added: Apr 02, 2021
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This has been a difficult stretch for the country with millions sick, out of work, or simply stuck at home. But the horrific murder of George Floyd...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 29:00
In part 2 of my interview with Dr. Boydstun, we explore social media and our own behavior as media audiences and consumers… AND people connected to...
- Added: Apr 16, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Amber Boydstun, Associate Professor of Political Science at UC Davis, and author of Making the News… about how me...
- Added: Apr 09, 2020
- Length: 29:30
What can all the money in the world buy you? Thanks to the Beatles, we already know it’s not love, but could it perhaps buy you the most powerful o...
- Added: Feb 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
A conviction of a protester outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic brings up the question: when will the severity of the violence that follows fr...
- Added: Aug 24, 2019
- Length: 08:49
Moral Development thinkers of the 1960's and 70's helped make sense of those polarized times. The "moral" twist of these times is often reduced to ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2019
- Length: 07:35
Musical tribute with Santa Claus paying attention to who's marginal and who's not!
- Added: Jan 05, 2019
- Length: 02:10
To the tune from Auld Lang Syne - for the Great American Wrongbook- a musical tribute to say farewell to the past and anticipate a more visionary ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2018
- Length: 05:46
