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Unresolved: The Iran Threat
From: Open to Debate
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Iran’s regional role has changed post-October 7, but is Iran a bigger global threat than we think? In partnership with the Council on Foreign Relat...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
2023-11-24 Another Look at Bridging the Great American Divide
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Most Americans support climate action, but you wouldn’t know it from Congress or the courts – or from most of the media. People on both the left an...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WABE, WMUU-LP, KGUA, KALW and more


  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 13
231124: 2023-11-24 Another Look at Bridging the Great American Divide, 11/24/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Most Americans support climate action, but you wouldn’t know it from Congress or the courts – or from most of the media. People on both the left an...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
253: Indigenous Eco-Nomics: Ancestors of the Future, 9/14/2022
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
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In this episode, Indigenous scholar and organizer Nick Estes explores how Indigenous land-based and Earth-centered societies are advancing regenera...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
Architecture or Revolution: Part 3 of The State Made Visible
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: This St. Louis image was taken before 1954 when the small-scale buildings seen here would be leveled for park space and eventually become the Gateway Mall. The buildings in the foreground would be leveled after 1959 as part of Mill Creek Valley clearance.
Our focus is on the planning and architecture of our modern sites of resource extraction, the cities we live in, and how the design of parks and br...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Vonnegut on Tralfamadore: Billy Pilgrim and PTSD
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In today's show we explore the history of recognizing the trauma experienced by soldiers in war - PTSD is only the most recent iteration of this di...

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


  • Added: Jan 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 4
Part One of The State Made Visible: On the Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is Rasul Mowatt, author of Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence, published by Routledge, which shows us how the the state...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Teaching a Man to Fish in a Steel Mill in Gary, Indiana
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Aerial view of the Gary Works in 1973.
Today we discuss the work of the late Noel Ignatiev using the memoir that has just been published by Charles H. Kerr. It’s called Acceptable Men: L...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Sep 21, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Slavery’s Imperial Skein: Knitting Together the Capitalist Empire
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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While US Slavery established the template for the production of staples like rice, sugar, and cotton, it also troubled the imperial imaginary: how ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
From Another Country: Bill Mullen on James Baldwin’s Revolutionary Life
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: James Baldwin on the water of the Golden Horn, Istanbul © Sedat Pakay 1965. , Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
In his book Mullen shows how Baldwin’s life is “a bracing testimonial to being the first African-American radical to make his sexuality an integral...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:19
The Cunning Figure of the Virus: Elizabeth Povinelli on Late Liberalism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The fact that the Virus is a symptom of capitalism seems like a simple conclusion, but Povinelli explains that the Virus reveals how historic modes...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Tell It Slant: The Truth of the Bombs Bursting in Air
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: B-24J Liberators of the 579th Bomb Squadron drop incendiary bombs made from fighter plane drop tanks filled with napalm on targets near Royan, France, Apr 15 1945.
H. Bruce Franklin (Crash Course) returns to help us connect lots of dots. He’ll argue, among other things, that we need to learn what three particu...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Dec 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:53
  • Purchases: 1
Port Authority: Race, Labor, and Logistics on the Docks
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The docks of San Francisco and Durban, South Africa – two essential locations where a commitment to black internationalism and leftist politics spa...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Carceral Capitalism: An Interview with Jackie Wang
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her new book, Carceral Capitalism, poet and scholar Jackie Wang confronts mass incarceration in the US by delving into the processes that feed i...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2019
  • Length: 01:03:54
A Targeted Divide: Gunning Down the Bill of Rights
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Michigan Liberty Militia Constitutional Enforcement rally Capitol Lansing MI March 24 2018., Credit: Photo by Theresa Rosado.
Today begins a series of three programs on guns in the USA: A Targeted Divide. Our first show is “Gunning Down the Bill of Rights,” how the 2nd Ame...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jul 04, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Anne Helen Petersen - 319
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Anne Helen Petersen discusses her book, Too Fat, Too Slutty, To Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Jesus in the White House
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Gina Messina
If Jesus was President, how would his policies measure up against those of the Trump Administration? Would Christians of the Trump Era support a Pr...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Jan 14, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
LISA GRAVES, current political climate
From: Out of Bounds
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LIsa Graves, Executive Director of Center for Media and Democracy focuses on corporate money/ influence on our democratic system

  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
2016-12-26 2016: From Paris to Trump
From: Climate One
Caption: David R. Baker, Energy Reporter, San Francisco Chronicle
As we look back at 2016, the biggest news story of the year is arguably the presidential election, from the candidates’ “faux pas of the week” to t...

Bought by Capital Public Radio


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
To Overbuild or Underbuild? A Rural Policy Conundrum
From: Nick Stumo-Langer
Series: Broadband Bits
Caption: Made with Canva.com
Episode 91: Lisa Gonzalez and I, Christopher Mitchell, are back in studio for a short conversation about the implications of a municipal network or...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2015
  • Length: 13:15
Hacking Democracy
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Is American democracy broken — are we being well-represented, or not? If not, why not? And what’s to do about it?

Bought by WUFT, WMMT, and KZYX


  • Added: Sep 06, 2014
  • Length: 52:05
  • Purchases: 3
Lines in the Sand
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The borders that divide up our modern world hinge, sometimes, on decisions that have stopped making sense. The Middle East is still suffering from ...

Bought by KZYX, WRPI, KUOW, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 4
A Flailing State: Daron Acemoglu and Matt Taibbi on Economic Inequality
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We’re somewhere between the legend and the facts of the U.S. economy. The legend, still in our heads, is it’s a rough-and-tumble democracy and a c...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
  • Purchases: 1
Obama's 100 Days with Stephanie Robinson co-author of Accountable
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: Accountable
Stephanie Robinson's newest book is Accountable: Making America as Good as its Promise. She joins us to discuss President Obama's first 100 days in...

  • Added: May 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:28
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1