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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
There are forces in the US that like to selectively bring up “states rights” from time to time – with the impending decision stripping the federal ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: May 12, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In his astute and timeless book, "How to Lie with Statistics," Darrell Huff writes, “The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-mind...
- Added: Apr 22, 2022
- Length: 29:00
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...
Bought by New England Public Media
- Added: Apr 02, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
The Psycology of the Covid-19 Health Crisis. A look at Mental Health and Media Use with Clinical Psycologist Dr Russell Bourne. In practice for ove...
Bought by WCNY
- Added: Feb 13, 2021
- Length: 27:00
- Purchases: 1
Memes have become an essential part of our daily humor. But have you ever thought of how your favorite memes travel to different countries and acro...
- Added: Jun 26, 2020
- Length: 06:57
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
March brings us Sunshine Week, an annual honoring of the ethical and legal obligation for Transparency of Public Records and the Freedom of Informa...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 07:22
In the not so distant past, Anonymous was usually a woman. a woman composer, artist, author, musician, writer unless she was an accused criminal, a...
- Added: Sep 07, 2018
- Length: 06:52
With lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook, a tribute to You Know Who and how his workday goes sometimes. Sung to "I've been working on the railr...
- Added: Sep 07, 2018
- Length: 03:53
A musical tribute to political appointees (at the cost of the Public trust) with lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook! which could be sung to th...
- Added: Aug 22, 2018
- Length: 02:07
Understanding the abandonment of civil liberties in this country, means looking at behaviors we ignore, passive handouts of yet another fat govern...
- Added: Aug 05, 2018
- Length: 05:58
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if the picture is a bar graph with a bunch of statistical notations? It may be worth a thous...
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 29:30
A musical tribute to a certain one hundred and thirty thousand dollars which it turns out a certain President did reimburse his lawyer for which ha...
- Added: May 04, 2018
- Length: 02:01
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
Today we show our support for women as we ask you to show your support for Interchange. We’ll hear clips that highlight the fight for women’s right...
- Added: Mar 28, 2018
- Length: 57:28
This American Life recently reminded us that the Democratic Party doesn't seem to get who it is anymore. Is it the Political Gamesmanship that's do...
- Added: Jan 24, 2018
- Length: 05:54
2017 was the 60th anniversary of the stand-off between Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and desegregation at Little Rock Central High School . Today ...
- Added: Dec 26, 2017
- Length: 58:59
Today, we confront the boots on the ground with political scientist and author, Christopher Sebastian Parker, who, along with his research partner ...
- Added: Aug 22, 2017
- Length: 58:11
Regardless of your politics, regardless of her politics, it’s hard to argue that Hillary Clinton hasn’t been on the receiving end of a constant and...
- Added: Jun 13, 2017
- Length: 01:28:01
Is the New York Times enabling a debate that most rational people think is long over? The latest conservative pundit to be hired by the New York Ti...
Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and XRAY.fm
- Added: May 02, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 2
Fourteen years ago this month, Maine Public Radio fired the host of a 30 year popular jazz program, The humble Farmer because he criticized the Ir...
- Added: Apr 29, 2017
- Length: 06:53
