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Why We Believe What We Believe (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Why do people believe weird things? That’s what Jason Hart wants to find out. He delves into the psychology behind ghost encounters, anti-vaccine ...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, WLIW, KVSC and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 13
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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The Fall of Saigon marked the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. This captivating NEH-funded documentary shares st...

Bought by WFAE, WPCA-LP, WCPN, Prairie Public, KVNF and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 16
“Building a Wall”: Church and State in America (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-When Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia’s central Rotunda, he set out to build a temple to the book, a stunning rebuke to the Ch...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
The New Minority (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A look at what's motivating Trump's most loyal base - The invention of immigration - Why getting facts on immigration is so tough - Inside one of V...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1
The New Minority (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A look at what's motivating Trump's most loyal base - The invention of immigration - Why getting facts on immigration is so tough - Inside one of V...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 14
The New Minority (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A look at what's motivating Trump's most loyal base - The invention of immigration - Why getting facts on immigration is so tough

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Census Problems (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The Justice Department has submitted a controversial request to add a question about citizenship status to the 2020 Census. Experts say the questio...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KYUK, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WOUB and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2018
  • Length: 03:15
  • Purchases: 6
The Bluff of the Century: Nixon, Alger Hiss, and the Cold War
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Congressman Nixon & Robert Stripling examine Pumpkin Papers microfilm
The conviction of Alger Hiss for perjury in 1950, continues to define the terms of what it means to American. But the definition seems always profe...

Bought by Radio Catskill, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WRGY


  • Added: Sep 05, 2017
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 3
Desperately Seeking Solutions: Fixing Economic Inequality
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Assuming the next president has no ability, vision, or desire to combat the staggering inequality of our new “gilded age,” we’re left with the ques...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
The Great Divide (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Are betting markets are a more accurate predictor than election polls? -The influence of Millennials on the upcoming election. -The vast majorit...

Bought by WCNY, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
Mapping the KKK (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-An animated, online map shows for the first time just how the Ku Klux Klan spread rapidly to all 50 states between 1915 and 1940. -Tracing the “e...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, KRDP, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
Hope In A Time of Endings: An Independence Day Recognition of Voice
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Speaking out about unjust events and atrocities that others passively accept segregates the outspoken, often. In their own time, they are often ...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2016
  • Length: 04:34
Political Party Karma: A Citizen's Guide
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The real meaning of the Buddhist concept of karma is murky, but the Republican Presidential campaign has become an explanatory sponge for it- fully...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
Great Heaps of Grain and People (and Diseases): On Being Domesticated by the State
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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My guest in this hour is James Scott whose writing is a trek through the history of state-making and resistance to being shackled to governance. Hi...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
Secrecy in the Sunshine Era (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In the 1970s, a series of laws ushered in a new “sunshine era” of unprecedented government transparency. A new book investigates how, despite these...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KVSC, KENW, and WLIW


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Secrecy in the Sunshine Era
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In the 1970s, a series of laws ushered in a new “sunshine era” of unprecedented government transparency. A new book investigates how, despite these...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, KKRN, and KPVL


  • Added: Mar 27, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 4
A Citizen's Guide to Entitled Derision
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
When politicians talk about "working across the aisle", they talk about it as if they are endorsing a great ethic. But working across the aisle is...

  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 07:04
Author Doris Kearns Goodwin, a biographer of presidents
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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In “Bully Pulpit” Doris focuses on the friendship and eventual falling out of Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft while describing t...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:00
  • Purchases: 2
What the Prez Reads Every Day: Author Eli Saslow
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Eli, a staff reporter for The Washington Post and author of “Ten Letters: The Stories Americans Tell Their President,” chronicles the personal stor...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
A Government Out of Sight
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Book Cover
With all the talk about Big Government, two scholars reflect on how the Federal Government and taxes have evolved since the founding era.

  • Added: Jan 28, 2010
  • Length: 28:59
"I do solemnly swear..."
From: With Good Reason
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A Presidential Historian plays clips from Inauguration speeches and tells us what to listen for in Obama's address. And Political Scientists reflec...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2009
  • Length: 29:00