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How Cultural Training Helps Doctors Treat Refugees
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Adam Paarlberg (left) and medical assistant Ngun Tial (right) demonstrate how the live interpreter Martti system works., Credit: CARTER BARRETT/SIDE EFFECTS PUBLIC MEDIA.
Across the United States, there’s a push to give new doctors cultural training to work with refugees and other immigrants. And some say it’s the di...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 3
How The Amish Live Uninsured But Stay Healthy
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: A horse and buggy drive through Holmes Co., the heart of Ohio's Amish community., Credit: PAIGE PFLEGER / SIDE EFFECTS PUBLIC MEDIA
One of the healthiest counties in the Midwest is also the least insured. About 40 percent of the people in Holmes County Ohio do not have health in...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Sep 13, 2019
  • Length: 04:05
  • Purchases: 3
The Feminist Case for Joining a Men's Group
From: Felix Poon
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What is an anti-sexist men’s group? And, if I’m a man who identifies as progressive with feminist values, isn’t that enough? What do I need a group...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 13, 2019
  • Length: 13:11
  • Purchases: 1
Abortion Stories: Mother, Daughter And A Clinic
From: Side Effects Public Media
Caption: Marilyn Evans stands outside the Women's Med Center of Dayton, where both she and her daughter got abortions., Credit: PAIGE PFLEGER / SIDE EFFECTS PUBLIC MEDIA
"This is the spot," Marilyn Evans says, standing in the empty parking lot of the Women’s Med Center in Kettering, Ohio. The Women's Med Center is ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:08
Why This Group Hands Out Free 'Morning After' Pills
From: Side Effects Public Media
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Rows of silver and pink plastic packages sit on the bathroom counter inside Bean, a Louisville coffee shop. Each package carries these words: emerg...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #97: A Fair Fight for a Fair Court: Election Year Special - Part 1
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The 2016 elections are over but what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and schol...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 55:48
Life of the Law #98: A Fair Fight for a Fair Court - An Election Year Special - Part 2
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The 2016 elections are over but what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and schol...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 59:57
Life of the Law #94: Courting Voters
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Never before has a sitting justice on the Kansas Supreme Court not won a retention election. But as we all bear witness, 2016 is a different sort o...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2016
  • Length: 18:42
Life of the Law #84: Liberité & Securité
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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France has been under a “state of emergency” since November, raising questions about the appropriate balance between security and civil liberties.

  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 25:50
Life of the Law #76: Juggalos
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: JUGGALO - COSTA MESA, Credit: Jared Eberhardt
In 2011 the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center released their Gang Threat Assessment, which listed Juggalos as a “loosely affiliated hybrid ga...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 22:45
Nicklesville Pushes Seattle Towards Acceptance of Tent Cities
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Nicklesville, Credit: Sara Bernard
Seattle is one of the only cities in the nation to have passed an ordinance formally sanctioning tent cities. A lot of that success can be chalked ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WABE


  • Added: Jan 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:13
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Law #74: Overruled
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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In the U.S., juries are often seen as democracy in action. Twelve men and women are asked to hear an entire case, and ultimately, decide another pe...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 23:13
Life of the Law Episode #69: Bit of an Edge
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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In real life, the business of jury selection is a 400 million dollar industry. So in a world of high priced jury consultants what does a jury of ou...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 24:42
Life of the Law Episode #67: The Stop
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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We all know this feeling. You're driving. Maybe you're speeding. Maybe you don't think you're doing anything wrong. All of a sudden blue lights fla...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 15:48
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law #66: Who's the Criminal?
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
Caption: After Emily Baxter interviews someone about getting away with a crime, she takes a photo that reflects the person's character and story., Credit: Emily Baxter/weareallcriminals.com
Ever committed a crime? Were you caught? Arrested? Maybe not. Between a quarter and a third of all adults in America were caught and arrested. Now ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 14:44
  • Purchases: 2
Life of the Law Episode #65: Commuting Cops
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Laws that required cops to live in the cities they patrolled were common in the early 1900’s and still exist in the United States today. However, s...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:08
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law Episode #62: No Lawyers Allowed
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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At disciplinary hearings in prison, inmates are not guaranteed the right to an attorney. In fact, they aren’t allowed to have one at all.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2015
  • Length: 21:22
Life of the Law Episode #61: Outside the Womb
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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The law isn’t actually written in stone. It morphs and changes with the times. What happens when laws change all of a sudden and people find themse...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2015
  • Length: 19:32
Life of the Law Episode #60: The Bear
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Bounty hunters are kind of like human bloodhounds. They’re dogged. They won’t stop until they get who they’re looking for. Frank Abramovitz is a bo...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 20:22
Life of the Law Episode #59: The Trauma Room
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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When prisoners act out, they get put in solitary confinement-- the penal version of 'go to your room and think about what you've done.' But for the...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2015
  • Length: 24:26
  • Purchases: 1
Life of The Law Episode #58: Oswald Is Still Dead
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Lee Harvey Oswald was murdered before he could stand trial for the assassination of JFK. But that hasn’t stopped people from trying to get him into...

Bought by PRX Remix, KPIK-LP, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jun 08, 2015
  • Length: 20:21
  • Purchases: 3