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Taxes are necessary for a civilized society, and most ordinary people pay their fair share. But there's one group that pays nothing at all, while ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 03:00
This week they celebrated “Teacher’s Day” in India, but this year a teacher is in the news for all the wrong reasons.
- Added: Sep 05, 2023
- Length: 06:00
A little reflected glory is probably innocuous enough, but DNA is not sufficient evidence of belonging to a particular culture.
- Added: Jul 13, 2021
- Length: 06:00
We cannot blame social media for our worst demons. But it is undeniable that social media has made it that much easier to create that alternate uni...
- Added: Jan 19, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Oct. 2nd is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, and in an angry toxic world, we would do well to remember a man who fasted, intermittently, to force us...
- Added: Sep 28, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Blu emerges in the City a second time, met by a monolithic entity, bringing fears back to life. Mechanical birds fly through the square, beckoning...
- Added: Apr 24, 2020
- Length: 14:08
Since October 2019, people in Lebanon have been protesting corruption, climate denial, big finance, and government ineptitude. Where does that work...
Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 25, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Katherine Eban's book "Bottle of Lies" exposes the criminal dealings of some of India pharma's drug producers
- Added: Feb 03, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Anne’s whisper became a long silk thread, spun around a butterfly. Caterpillar all too eager to wrap it from inside its body around like a cocoon....
- Added: Dec 05, 2019
- Length: 11:08
If the Pope had a reckoning with the sex abuse crisis, what would it sound like?
- Added: Feb 26, 2019
- Length: 06:44
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was convicted of killing a protected deer, but with the rich and the powerful it’s hard to tell where the buck real...
- Added: Apr 10, 2018
- Length: 06:00
The associate director for the California Innocence Project talks about the importance of working to address issues of evidence retention and prese...
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 02:00
The "MeToo" hashtag carries more weight than your average social media meme.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
A spate of lynchings in India has Sandip thinking that the U.S. and his home country are not so different.
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 06:00
The Scripps National Spelling Bee has a new winner. 12 year old Ananya Vinay. Another Indian American. That’s not news anymore.
But Ananya Vinay’s ...
- Added: Jun 06, 2017
- Length: 06:00
There have been other mob attacks in India before thre Nigerians were beaten in a mall in Delhi on March 27. Each time the government promises stri...
- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Perhaps an unwelcoming America is not such a bad thing for the rest of the world. It’s as if the American Dream itself is being outsourced back to ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Delicate Truth by John Le Carré.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 03:08
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Griftopia by Matt Tiaibi
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 02:18
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco about the roots of fascism in Europe.
- Added: Jan 12, 2017
- Length: 03:14
Rediscover a Creative and Artistic Modern Age
- Added: Sep 12, 2016
- Length: 10:24
The Je Suis slogan, once a stirring call for a moment of coming together in protest and solidarity, is well-meaning but has a long lost its meaning.
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 05:59
That most basic of human gestures of intimacy, a kiss, can still be deadly.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 14, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
A recent disaster in Kolkata brings out the lookie-loos - and much more.
- Added: Apr 04, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Kardava was doing what is her job as a journalist. The media is doing what they think is their job. The only person who has no choice in this is th...
- Added: Mar 28, 2016
- Length: 06:00
