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The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic led to a rise in fatal overdoses among the tens of thousands of Indigenous Mayans living in the Bay area. That...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
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What impact is social media having on the way we see ourselves?

  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
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This week on Inside Europe: “History made” as the EU’s asylum and migration pact is passed. Nicaragua drags Germany before the International Cour...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Michigan Case Which Used the ‘Independent State Legislature Theory’ to Challenge Voting Rights Ballot Questions is Thrown Out

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
National Study of Elections Officials Confirms Turnover from Harassment, But Also Finds An Aging Workforce and Increasing Workloads are Factors

Bought by Angelica Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Trying to Game the System, Missouri Legislature Proposes Ballot Question Rule Changes to Head Off Reproductive Rights Question in November

Bought by Angelica Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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This month on Climate Connections schools in coal country are going solar, some anglers say Rhode Island’s Block Island wind farm has improved fish...

Bought by KWSO, WTJU, Mountain Streams Radio WKYW-LP, WNIN, KTSW 89.9 and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 18
Caption: Steven Price served in the Army in the Panama Canal Zone. He says he was exposed to Agent Orange, DDT, and other toxins. He later developed chronic B-cell leukemia., Credit: Courtesy Steven Price
People who served in the Canal Zone were left out of a law that made it easier to get care and benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Bought by WRFA-LP, KTEP, and WHRV


  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Nonpartisan Report Recommends Ways Local Officials Can Expand Voter Participation and Recruit Election Workers Using Public/Private Partnerships

Bought by Angelica Community Radio and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 07, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
True the Vote’s Claim of Evidence of 2020 Ballot Stuffing in Georgia Were . . . Not True

Bought by Angelica Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Give your A.I. a personality, spend 10 hours experimenting, and other practical tips from Ethan Mollick.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 21:30
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The biases embedded in technology are more than mere glitches, argues Meredith Broussard in her new book, "More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Ge...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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"Tech companies have abused their power and it is time to resist them." Oxford professor Carissa Véliz describes why privacy is so important, and h...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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The Flat Earth conspiracy got a huge boost from Facebook and YouTube, as Kelly Weill explains in her book "Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Many tech employees in Silicon Valley are pressured into joining a new religion, worshiping work and taking spiritual direction from their companie...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Amazon took over books, Spotify and Google took over music, and musicians and authors are struggling as a result. Cory Doctorow talks about what we...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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A few years ago, Douglas Rushkoff was invited to speak to a group of billionaires. Rather than asking about current tech trends, the billionaires w...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Alec MacGillis discusses his book "Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America" – about how Amazon has had drastic effects on the economy,...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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The tech industry is launching new brain-surveillance devices intended to monitor your mental state and, yes, even read your thoughts. Nita Farahan...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
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Internet addiction is a growing problem, thanks to the intentional design of Silicon Valley platforms to "hook" users. The ITAA can help: Internet ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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All sorts of systems are getting hacked - in finance, law, and politics, as well as software - usually for the benefit of already-powerful people. ...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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This week on Inside Europe: The electoral tide turns on Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Taking stock of NATO at 75. The war in Gaza cast...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
Survey Finds Strong Support from Americans for Early Voting & Election Day Holiday Reforms, But Also Restrictive Government-Issued ID Requirements

Bought by KTSW 89.9, Angelica Community Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6