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Turns out Americans don't feel great about the direction of our country. But what exactly are they upset about, and are things as bad as they think?
Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, KICI Iowa City, and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
In a two-part series, we look at how COVID-19 has torn through prisons and how organizers are trying to push state and local governments to release...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Mar 16, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Some years back The House of Representatives' healthcare bill denied maternity care and denied health insurance to 18 to 25 year olds. Back then...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 12, 2020
- Length: 01:07
- Purchases: 1
On today’s program:
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson explains why London thinks Russia is responsible for the nerve agent attack on a forme...
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 58:59
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...
- Added: Feb 09, 2018
- Length: 16:26
Why haven't pharmaceutical companies and oil corporations been asked to make health insurance lower by reducing drug costs or refusing federal subs...
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 02:43
The Senate and House Healthcare bills will replace Obamacare subsidies with tax breaks for the wealthy. Meanwhile oil and gas companies continue to...
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 02:54
Some places, for example, the Intelligence Committee of the United States Senate serve as our country's moral proving ground. But this week‘s testi...
- Added: Jun 18, 2017
- Length: 02:57
FBI Director James Comey is being queried about whether President Donald Trump asked him to drop the investigation of former National Security Advi...
- Added: Jun 09, 2017
- Length: 04:10
Everyday the world can ask again what’s right or wrong , not just smugly proceed, go along on its merry path, answers tucked under its arm, as proo...
- Added: Jun 07, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Selling whatever this country has, for money, of course, at every turn, even at the highest echelons of government, has become the highest priorit...
- Added: Feb 11, 2017
- Length: 07:05
Like the Defense Industry, Obamacare was created to keep America strong. Like the Defense Industry, Obamacare government stipends are paid to priva...
- Added: Jan 06, 2017
- Length: 01:12
There is always, someone, somewhere who "like a bird on the wire" from Leonard Cohen's song, is trying “in [his or her] way to be free“.
Since 1...
- Added: Nov 13, 2016
- Length: 07:40
Today's Sixty-second Moral inquiry brings quotations from the Republican Bible on Adultery which ask 'Why Shouldn't the GOP Presidential Candidate...
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 01:18
Opioids are Pitched as the Wonder Drug: Profit vs. Health
- Added: Sep 19, 2016
- Length: 21:54
This US Presidential campaign has been characterized by a striking absence of empathy. No empathy between candidates and a Social Code that defines...
- Added: Sep 13, 2016
- Length: 07:05
When Mitch McConnell and the Republicans snub a duly elected President and the American people who want a Supreme Court nominee to be vetted throug...
- Added: Sep 02, 2016
- Length: 07:13
As the battle wages on between the unarmed and the armed, the armed and the armed, the open carry armed and the concealed carry armed, the proble...
- Added: Jul 30, 2016
- Length: 05:19
Today’s sixty-second Moral Inquiry asks ‘What’s the difference between verbal abuse, which uses words to hold power over others by intimidating, th...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 01:09
The lessons of D.L. Rosenhan's study of imposters pretending to have psychiatric illness on psychiatric units have not been lost on the world of me...
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 07:32
In the mid-90’s, Dr. Mark Rosenberg was leading gun violence research at the CDC. Republican Arkansas Congressman Jay Dickey, the NRA’s so-called '...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and XRAY.fm
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 37:50
- Purchases: 3
Joe Bevilacqua hosts an hour with Bernie Sanders, Spike Lee, Susan Sarandon, Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, Sarah Silverman, Lorie Kellogg, and Tim...
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 59:36
The local chapter of the League of Women Voters hosted a conversation with
local legislators over the weekend.
- Added: Jan 11, 2016
- Length: 07:54
DMC closed on April 21, 2015 with a remembrance for the hospital at the county board meeting.
- Added: May 02, 2015
- Length: 03:09
The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that Arizona’s 2000 law which created an Independent Commission to determine Congressional Re-d...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 07:04
