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Since its beginning in 1991, the Seattle Hempfest has become an international rallying point for marijuana legalization advocates, and never more s...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 07:41
On the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's resignation, Political Junkie host Ken Rudin chats with John Dean, former White House counsel ...
Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF, WXXI Rochester, and KUER
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 5
Stephen Downing is a retired LAPD Deputy Chief and an executive board member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition or LEAP. He spoke with CRN’s B...
- Added: Aug 06, 2014
- Length: 09:01
Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, discusses the status and prospects for the ongoing P5+1 talks in Vienna on Iran's nuclear pr...
- Added: Apr 16, 2014
- Length: 33:06
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...
- Added: Mar 11, 2014
- Length: 51:30
The controversy over Tibetan independence won't likely be over anytime soon, but is the Middle Way, promoted by the Dalai Lama himself, any way to ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2014
- Length: 04:30
For nearly a century we’ve been trying to read someone’s truthfulness by the way they act — through machine, or our own intuition. The police, the ...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 13:10
- Purchases: 4
What's the answer?
- Added: Nov 26, 2013
- Length: 03:25
Glenda Rike tells her son, Larry, how his father, Aubrey Rike, came to be one of the few present when President John F. Kennedy received his last r...
- Added: Nov 22, 2013
- Length: 02:55
- Purchases: 4
Well, we thought it might happen. Over at Automobile Behavioral Health they are cancelling managed car insurance policies because the new "required...
- Added: Nov 04, 2013
- Length: 03:39
Short interview with former Newark Mayor now Senator from New Jersey and his first days in Office in Washington
- Added: Nov 03, 2013
- Length: 02:29
Leading scholars from the field of Chinese public opinion research discuss the influence of public opinion on political reform, political trust, an...
- Added: Oct 26, 2013
- Length: 24:08
Having survived the most recent episode of Gridlock by the skin of the Nation's teeth, we beyond the Beltway need to put our collective relational...
- Added: Oct 19, 2013
- Length: 03:26
Some architects say there are just some buildings that should never have been built: buildings that violate human rights by design.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Oct 08, 2013
- Length: 04:29
- Purchases: 19
Upon entering the Eastside Arts Alliance in East Oakland, it’s clear that this a special kind of conference. On the welcome table is a stack of nam...
- Added: Jun 22, 2013
- Length: 08:42
- Purchases: 2
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill talks cover-ups, blow-back, and fun & games in Saddam’s Iraq.
- Added: Jun 19, 2013
- Length: 16:43
"Updating your truth" is a term not much used these days. We read that somebody "denied", "vetoed", "denounced", "maintained", "refused to consider...
- Added: Jun 15, 2013
- Length: 04:07
What many people outside Massachusetts don't know is that the brother of reputed Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, Billy Bulger, was similarly powerfu...
- Added: May 29, 2013
- Length: 02:24
Before Prohibition hit, the New York mafia had another racket that netted millions of dollars in profits. The name of the game? Sweet, sweet baby a...
- Added: Jan 10, 2013
- Length: 09:56
At the 1896 Democratic Convention, Bryan gave a speech that electrified his party and won him the nomination. His “Cross of Gold” speech is known t...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, The Story, PRX Remix, KUT and more
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:11
- Purchases: 7
Alben Barkley served in Congress for close to 40 years and was Harry Truman’s vice president from 1948-1952. Though he wanted to be President himse...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:25
- Purchases: 4
In his newest book, bestseller author Kurt Eichenwald chronicles the fast paced decisions, deceptions and delusions following the 9/11 attacks.
- Added: Sep 18, 2012
- Length: 28:58
PHOENIX - Opponents of Arizona's SB1070 law say Monday's Supreme Court ruling is a first step in defeating the entire law.
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 02:15
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - The North Carolina State Assembly is moving forward with a budget plan that includes some restoration of education funding los...
- Added: Jun 21, 2012
- Length: 01:45
ASHEVILLE, N.C. - A fresh push to pass a bill that would allow North Carolinians with concealed-carry permits to bring handguns into the state's re...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 01:40
