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We all deserve clean air and clean water.
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- Added: Jan 22, 2024
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 2
How much are our most personal rights threatened by abortion cases now before the U.S. Supreme Court? For example, in addition to abortion, our ri...
- Added: Jan 14, 2022
- Length: 29:30
Narratives are all around us. These big meta-stories tell us who we are as a nation and the values we share. Narratives help us explain why things ...
- Added: Sep 26, 2021
- Length: 02:12
In this episode of The Etiquette Show, Ronny Dawson discusses an alien home invasion and his close encounter experiences.
- Added: Jun 16, 2021
- Length: 27:08
Are you a New Yorker who is somewhat confused about who you should support in the upcoming mayor election?
In this interview, Professor Lachmann p...
- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 50:34
What does "21st Century policing" actually mean, and how would a forward-thinking department be different than what most jurisdictions have now? Ro...
- Added: Jul 26, 2017
- Length: 04:25
James Comey wasn’t the nation’s embattled former FBI Director in 2002; he was the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan. It was around then that he g...
- Added: Jul 26, 2017
- Length: 04:05
The federal government doesn't track how often or what happens when police shoot civilians, and there's no official national database to show how b...
- Added: Jul 26, 2017
- Length: 04:22
The Trump administration has promised a return to "tough on crime" criminal justice policies, including a recent memo that instructs federal prosec...
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- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 04:39
- Purchases: 1
Attorney General Jeff Sessions declined to renew the National Commission on Forensic Science in April, effectively ending federal efforts to standa...
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 04:19
In May, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a 2013 memo written by his predecessor, Eric Holder, that told prosecutors not only will they abid...
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 04:14
DNA tests have proved something surprising: people sometimes confess to terrible crimes that they definitely did not commit. One reason seems to be...
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 03:35
We could do a lot to improve public health and reduce runaway medical expenses if we focussed more on preventing disease and less on medical fixes,...
- Added: Oct 21, 2016
- Length: 02:18
The word that best describes America's infrastructure is "crumbling," says Henry Petroski.
Petroski is Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engi...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 02:07
Rising sea levels are just one way climate change is reshaping the world's oceans, says Duke University oceanographer Susan Lozier.
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 01:40
We live in extremely violent times. Words can provoke aggression, insult and personal harm very quickly. Politicians spend much time trying to r...
- Added: May 30, 2016
- Length: 04:26
In the 1970’s, a series of laws ushered in a so-called “sunshine era” of government transparency. A new book examines the dark side of the Sunshine...
- Added: Mar 27, 2015
- Length: 03:53
- Purchases: 3
Home prices are higher than ever before in the Bay Area. So it begs the question: are we in a housing bubble or a housing crisis?
- Added: Jan 06, 2015
- Length: 06:18
Bennett and Porter do their cooking in a shared kitchen that’s part of a transitional house in West Oakland. But they met many years ago.
“Well, w...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 10:42
It all started a couple of years ago, when a happy-go-lucky guy I swim with named Joe Omran showed up at Aquatic Park one day in a foul mood. Thirt...
- Added: Nov 03, 2014
- Length: 14:18
Arthur Streeter is taking me to meet an inmate who’s going to be released from jail today.
“So we’re going to pick him up and get something to eat...
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- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 12:49
- Purchases: 1
After years of struggle, the Oakland Police Department is finally getting some positive news. Crime rates are down in all major categories, includi...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 07:24
Just over the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County, a few miles from Muir Woods, lies Muir Beach. The beautiful and peaceful waterfront is a favorite...
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 06:13
Tenants are facing a tough time in San Francisco. The city has some of the nation’s highest rents and laws like the Ellis Act have made evictions f...
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- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 08:29
- Purchases: 1
Four people have been killed by cars on Van Ness Avenue in 2014 – more than half of the pedestrian deaths in San Francisco this year.
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 05:58
