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In this episode, we explore the persistent challenge of how to ensure that everyone has adequate housing. We discuss why the U.S. faces these issue...
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore the Bay Area housing market, and how mass corporate ownership of homes and apartments throughout the region affects com...
- Added: Oct 27, 2022
- Length: 29:30
It’s no secret that polarization is deepening divides across the US. Over the past few years, many people have started or joined what are called br...
- Added: Jul 21, 2022
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore the sharp increase in fentanyl deaths across the country, including in San Francisco and the Bay Area, which had thus f...
- Added: Jul 06, 2022
- Length: 29:30
This week, we cover carceral non-profits in an interview with Drs. Zhandarka Kurti, a professor of criminology and Criminal Justice at Loyola Unive...
- Added: Dec 11, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In this episode, we explore the debt ceiling - what it is, why it exists, and why it keeps coming up in Congressional negotiations and wrangling.
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- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we discuss the state of U-S tax policy, as well as some ideas for how to overhaul the system to make it more equitable, efficient,...
- Added: Sep 29, 2021
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore taxes in the US, including how tax policy has evolved and devolved over the course of U-S history, what taxes are meant...
- Added: Sep 24, 2021
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore the First Amendment aspects of voting, elections, and campaigns - in particular how voting and related activities might...
- Added: Sep 14, 2021
- Length: 29:30
On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we’ll continue our series on Healing a Country’s Wounds by talking about the strategy of Public Dialogues. ...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM
- Added: Aug 26, 2021
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Some of the most persistent myths about coronavirus and the vaccines developed to fight it have to do with women’s health. In this segment, we’ll h...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jun 24, 2021
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we explore the role and power of language - words and phrases - in how we discuss the issues that affect us and that drive our new...
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Two incidents of anti-Asian hate — the beating of an elderly grandfather in a San Francisco park and the harassment of a mourning son in a New York...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMPG
- Added: Apr 03, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
Domestic workers have been especially hard hit by the pandemic but have been consistently excluded from bills meant to help frontline workers. In t...
- Added: Mar 25, 2021
- Length: 04:10
Today, a divided nation experiences one of the most tumultuous presidential transitions in US history. Leaders from marginalized communities across...
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 29:00
In this episode, we talk with Glenn Kessler, editor… and chief writer of the Washington Post Fact Checker… and credited with doing the first offici...
- Added: Dec 17, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we talk with John Wood, Jr., national ambassador for Braver Angels, an organization also working to build relationships across the...
- Added: Oct 16, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we seek to make sense of the recent New York Times articles about the President’s tax returns. We also explore the U.S. tax system...
- Added: Oct 02, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we explore the influence and impact of framing - in particular how mainstream news tends to frame national issues as gamified, two...
- Added: Sep 11, 2020
- Length: 29:30
National polling in recent years has consistently reported that 2/3rds of those polled feel that there’s a major problem with civility in our natio...
Bought by KUNM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KCPW Salt Lake City
- Added: Jul 31, 2020
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 3
National polling in recent years has consistently reported that 2/3rds of those polled feel that there’s a major problem with civility in our natio...
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KWMR, and KUNM
- Added: Jul 30, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Today, witch hunts are still happening, in places like East Timor, India and Cambodia. Federici, who never really left the subject of witch hunts, ...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Apr 08, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Michelle Alexander, Mark Lamont Hill and Vonya Quarles discuss the modern prison abolition movement, what's changed in the past ten years, and the ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Jan 29, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy investigates the latest social media challenge and finds out what all this 'Rice' is about.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
We take a look at the results of the 2012 election, covering not just the presidential election but also significant state and local races and refe...
Bought by WVAS, RadioFreePalmer, and KVMR
- Added: Nov 08, 2012
- Length: 53:01
- Purchases: 3