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Top of Mind - Political Primaries
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Why don’t more Americans vote in primary elections? Are open, partisan or closed primaries better for voter engagement?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KOWS, KMXT, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
Riding the waves of feminism: a conversation with scholar Bettina Aptheker
From: Suki Wessling
Series: The Babblery
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Noted feminist scholar Bettina Aptheker explores the dawning of her feminist consciousness in waves. Daughter of a communist, Aptheker had to throw...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
Top Of Mind - What Does Justice in Healthcare look Like
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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How do we determine justice in healthcare? Some people have worse health because of factors beyond their control; is that fair?

Bought by WXDU, KMXT, RadioStPete Florida, KSTK, KOWS and more


  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 6
Minnesota vs. Big Tobacco
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: MinneCulture In-Depth
Caption: Anti-smoking ad campaign, Credit: Minnesota Department of Health
Minnesota was the first state to take Big Tobacco to trial in the 1990s. Minnesota was also the first state to take the vaping company Juul to tria...

  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:53
StoryCorps: María de los Ángeles Vázquez and Rafael Cancel Vázquez
From: StoryCorps
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María de los Ángeles Vázquez and her son, Rafael Cancel Vázquez, remember his father, Rafael Cancel Miranda, one of four Puerto Rican Nationalists ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 03:16
Abigail Spanberger: Defending Her Country Yet Again
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Abigail Spanberger, Credit: Rebecca D'Angelo
Abigail Spanberger swore an oath at age twenty-four “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and d...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 21:33
Top of Mind - Is Government Transparency Essential in a Democracy?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Government transparency is a basic tenet of American democracy. But openness in government always has a cost. What’s the right balance?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, RADIOLEX, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 4
Top of Mind - How American Boys and Men are Falling Behind
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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American boys and men are falling behind. Have we accidentally overlooked their struggles?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KMXT, and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
Top of Mind - Many Students Lack Motivation to Learn. What Can We Do?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Between chronic absenteeism and shifting grading systems, we know many students lack motivation to learn. What can schools do differently?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, RADIOLEX, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Lost in Immigration
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Some things are temporary.

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


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Top of Mind - Common Ground in the Debate Over Teaching Kids About Race in School
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Should public schools in America teach kids about race and racism?

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
Top of Mind - Is Perspective-Taking the Key to Overcoming Polarization?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Is perspective-taking (the ability to see things from another’s point of view) the key to overcoming polarization in society?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, WXDU, KOWS, and KMXT


  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
In Good Faith - Haroon Moghul and Yelena Lembersky: How Does Religious Identity Help and Hinder Our Spiritual Growth?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Conversations about identity and faith.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 52:39
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - Is Sports Fandom Good for America?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Most Americans are sport fans. But is all of that obsession with wins, losses and rivals good for us? How sports fandom could be the antidote to is...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMXT, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 10
In Good Faith - Dan Groody and Yang Vang: Why Do Migration and Culture Matter?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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A conversation on immigration, theology, and how to make a home for yourself and others in a new place.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 52:42
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - How to Talk About Abortion
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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How to talk about abortion - and why it's crucial that we do, even if there's no chance we'll change our minds

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KMXT and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
Top of Mind - Why We Take Water for Granted – But Really Shouldn’t
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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It’s easy to take clean water for granted in America. But drought and decaying pipes mean it’s time to think differently about H2O.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KOWS, KMXT, KSTK, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 9
In Good Faith - Panel: Us vs. Them
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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An in-person discussion on maintaining religiosity without isolating those of other faiths.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 28, 2023
  • Length: 52:46
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - Righting Society’s Past Wrongs: How Late is Too Late to Repair?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Can righting society's past wrongs help us heal from historical harm?

Bought by KMXT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, KSTK, KOWS and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 10
In Good Faith - Benjamin Perry and Cantor Sharon Brown-Levy: How Do Our Emotions Draw Us Closer to God?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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This week's guests counsel us to come closer to God by feeling fully and engaging in powerful music.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 52:44
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - How Native Americans are Reclaiming Their Narrative
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Native Americans are reclaiming their narrative. A new wave of research, activism, and representation is changing the conversation.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, WXDU, KOWS and more


  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 6
The Challenge
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
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Student activists in York, Pennsylvania organized a silent protest when hundreds of books were banned from their classrooms, paving the way for las...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:10
Top of Mind - Immigration and America's Labor Shortage – Are Guestworkers the Solution?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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We are reframing the debate about immigration. We think of immigration of being exclusively a permanent thing. Most of it, in fact, is intended to ...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, and KMXT


  • Added: Dec 08, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 4
Top of Mind - The Hidden Cost of Fines and Fees
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Fines and fees have become the default way we punish people; deterrence is the ultimate goal, but do fines actually deter bad behavior?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
In Good Faith - Ganel-Lyn Condie and Marian Edmonds-Allen: What is Stewardship?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Guests Ganel-Lyn Condie and Marian Edmonds-Allen discuss responsibility and problem-solving in difficult challenges.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 22, 2023
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 1

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