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70 Million: Punished and Persecuted for Being Unhoused, Part 1

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

On today's show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a community of unhoused people in Echo Park in Los Angeles and how they ...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KVSC and more

Militarization and Uvalde: the Context Media Coverage Omits

From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends

Whether it’s Buffalo, NY, Uvalde, TX or Philadelphia, PA — we are witnessing an unprecedented wave of terror at the muzzle of a gun. But all mass s...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more

How One Alzheimer’s Drug Is Changing the U.S. Drug Approval Conversation

From: Tradeoffs

After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the natio...

Call 311 about tents? Here’s what homeless people and advocates say happens

From: KSFP
Series: Civic

What happens in San Francisco if you call the authorities about a tent encampment in your neighborhood? We're told they will be offered shelter and...

Losing Touch: How Qanon is affecting families

From: Daniel Green

Over the past four years, Qanon has grown by spreading misinformation through the internet. While many dismiss the fringe movement, some people fin...

A Shortcut Through 2020

From: Peter Bochan
Series: Shortcuts

A final look at an impossible year, 12 months of incredible drama, played out over the world stage in an hour long retrospective

Bought by KMUN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., Mississippi Public Broadcasting, KKRN and more

Opposing Children's Detention Centers - Marina from the Rio Grande Valley

From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas

Marina is a pediatric nurse from Austin and the Rio Grande Valley who deeply opposes the detention centers for children crossing the Texas-Mexico b...

Political Junkie Special - Remembering John McCain

From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Specials)

Ken Rudin hosts a special reflection on John McCain's life and legacy, featuring interviews with several of McCain's friends and colleagues.

Bought by WRGY, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, RadioFreePalmer, 'The Sea' and more

The Conservative Case Against the Death Penalty

From: KUER
Series: More To Say

Doing away with the death penalty is usually thought of as a liberal cause, and the arguments are often about the morality of executing someone, or...

EP 7.1 — Universal Basic Income: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?

From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream

In part 1 of our 2-part series on UBI, we explore this highly contentious topic, speaking with scholars, activists, journalists, and folks on the s...

Bought by KUNM

EP 3 — Betrayal and Solidarity in Greece

From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream

In 2015, Greece held a referendum to free itself from a debt crisis. We traveled to Athens to bring you an on-the-ground exploration of the afterma...

Bought by KPIP-LP

Seeking Justice for Quanice Hayes

From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit

Caption: (Left to Right): Venus Hayes, two of her children, Teressa Raiford

The family of 17 year-old Quanice Hayes, who was shot to death by Portland police, seeks justice from the city of Portland.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS

Immigration and Incarceration

From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line

This week’s episode begins to explore the intersections of borders, documentation, and incarceration. We look at the history of U.S. immigration po...

Bought by KZYX

The Sharing Economy? (Short)

From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream

In this first episode of Upstream, a radio documentary series, we look at the darker side of the "sharing economy" and explore the conditions that ...

Bought by KPIP-LP

Physician Assisted Death in Colorado

From: Vero Balderas Iglesias

Caption: Reporter Veronica Balderas Iglesias interviewing Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosing physician assisted death.

KGNU's Veronica Balderas Iglesias brings us the story of Robert Mitton, a man from Denver with a failing heart who would like the option of choosin...

CRACK: The Drug That Consumed the Nation's Capital

From: Kellen Quigley

For years, powdered cocaine was D.C.'s drug of choice, but when crack hit the streets in the eighties, the city was afflicted by levels of addictio...

WINGS #47-11 Muslim Divorce in India

From: WINGS Women's International News Gathering Service

Caption: Kalpana Pradhan, Kolkata, India

A chaotic system of divorce by folk beliefs and text messages may be nearing its end.

Voice of a Young Voter: A Former Foster Youth Driven to Fix the System

From: KQED
Series: From the West Coast: Voices of Young Voters

Caption: Kashawna Williams, Credit: Ian Hill/KQED

Kashawna Williams, an administrative justice major at Ohlone College in Fremont, Calif., and a former foster youth, discusses her drive to fix the ...

How much is a life worth?

From: Grant Buhr

Through the voices of mental health care consumers/activists, this story briefly explores some of the impacts of, and responses to, the closing of...

Feature Report - Homlessness and Mental Illness in Bloomington

From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News

Among the leading causes of homelessness in single adults is mental illness. Study after study reiterates that up to a quarter of all those sufferi...

Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY

Feature Report - Plotting Section 5 of I-69

From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News

The development of Interstate 69 through Indiana is divided into six sections from the Indiana/Kentucky boarder up to Indianapolis. This week, the ...

Occupy Minnesota

From: KVSC
Series: St. Cloud Area Arts & Culture Collage

Inspired by the Egyptian Tahrir Square uprising and other revolutionary movements across the world, the Occupy Wall Street movement has just entere...