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70 Million - Highway Robbery: How a Small Town Traffic Trap Became A Legal Black Hole
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sandra Harris, photographed in her home. , Credit: Amarr Croskey
On today's show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a small town in Alabama, where an eager new police chief, unsuspecting m...

Bought by WUWM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Unveiling Injustice: America's Flawed Justice System - Stephen B Bright
From: Roifield Brown
Series: MidAtlantic
Caption: logo
In today's episode, we delve into America's Flawed Justice System with esteemed lawyer and justice advocate Stephen B. Bright. Exploring his book '...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 58:39
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for August 23, 2023
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Campaign to Disqualify Trump from 2024 Election Ballot Gains Traction; Geo...

Bought by WFHB and WETS


  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Nukes in Utah – the past is present as Oppenheimer opens on Big Screen and Northrop Grumman seeks state tax incentives to build next-gen ICBMs
From: KRCL
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This is a 4-way interview with Inkstick military industrial complex reporter Taylor Barnes, and Scoville Peace Fellow and KRCL History Project Co-D...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 25:21
Mutinies, Memes and Mind Games
From: Mateo Schimpf
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What do Tetris and Twitter have in common?

Bought by Classic107.3, GCR (Global Community Radio), WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Global Players Behind Poverty and Peace
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Can a single gathering of world leaders really pull billions of people out of poverty?

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin on Meaningful Reform of Our Criminal Justice System
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In Part Two of my conversation with Chesa Boudin, we explore how his experiences as a child have informed his approach to criminal justice, and his...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Why Black San Franciscans Are Fighting for Reparations
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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San Francisco is considering reparations for Black San Franciscans. To understand why advocates are pushing for reparations in the city, we dive de...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KALW


  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
IE: Inside Europe, 6/16/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: Eyes on the skies: NATO stages practice maneuvers in Germany, and diplomacy in the Indo Pacific. Fractured factions: DW's p...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
The Patriarchy Trap
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Can a crisis of masculinity explain why men are falling behind?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Nakba: 75 Years On
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Palestinians fleeing from their villages as Israeli troops approach on October 30, 1948., Credit: David Eldan, National Photo Collection of Israel, Government Press Office, under the digital ID D275-120
This week marks the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, or the "catastrophe" in Arabic. It refers both to the events starting in late 1947 when Zionist ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:56
  • Purchases: 1
Conversations: Philip Zelikow
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Emily speaks with historian, attorney, and diplomat Philip Zelikow about the investigative report Lessons from the Covid War, authored by the COVID...

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:08:16
Namrata Chowdhary: Three (50) Is A Magic Number
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Namrata Chowdhary
In the first decade of this century many of us learned that the threshold for keeping our planet healthy was 350 parts per million of carbon dioxid...

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
IE: Inside Europe, 4/28/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show - It’s official: the AfD’s youth-wing is a right-wing extremist organization. Low turnout: urgent questions are raised about...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
The Latest Threat to the Affordable Care Act
From: Tradeoffs
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The Affordable Care Act faces yet another in a long string of legal challenges. Last Thursday's ruling, by a conservative federal judge who has tar...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 14:07
IE: Inside Europe, 4/14/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week 25 years of peace, but will Biden's call for a return to power-sharing in Northern Ireland be answered? Turks are still feeling the pinc...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
NC Newsline Editor Rob Schofield on Elephants, Donkeys and Leopards
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Rob Schofield
They say a leopard doesn’t change its spots, but last week, North Carolina state representative Tricia Cotham switched from the Democratic Party to...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
The Lisa Show - Loving Every Change
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Lisa Show
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Good things get better with age. So do we.

  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
The Treacherous Transition Awaiting Millions Losing Their Medicaid
From: Tradeoffs
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We dig into three research papers to make sense of what will happen to 15 million people set to lose their Medicaid over the next year.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 16:55
  • Purchases: 1
IE: Inside Europe, 3/31/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: Hungary votes to let Finland into NATO, but what about Sweden? Home at last: what lies in store for Norway’s Islamic State...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
IE: Inside Europe, 3/24/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: Extraordinary scenes in France as President Macron forces through deeply unpopular pension reforms. Reckoning time for Lon...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
How to Save Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Eli Merritt
We constantly hear that America’s democracy is in peril. Corruption is running amuck. Authoritarianism is on the rise. And very few in the hall of ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pandemic and Profit
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Alt text: Four homemade masks made from patterned cloth sitting on top of a fabric cutting mat, Credit: Mai-Linh Hong
To mark the three year anniversary of the official start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we'll be looking at two alternative supply chains for masks that...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
How Long Can Ukraine Hold On?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we look at the remarkable resilience of Ukraine, and the complex geopolitical stakes for Russia, the US, and China as Putin’s war drags on.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
John Stoehr: What the Right Gets Wrong on Race
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: John Stoehr
If you tend to get annoyed when you hear pundits criticize politicians for "politicizing" an inherently political issue, then this week’s show may ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00

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