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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
- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 01:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 06, 2020
- Length: 01:02
- Purchases: 1
Immigration is a pressing topic in our political landscape right now, with concerns about ICE raids and immigration bans. In this episode, we liste...
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 21:11
Despite millions of dollars of pressure from Shell, Exxon, and the American Petroleum Institute, the small city of South Portland, Maine stops the...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KRZA
- Added: May 09, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
Fayetteville Arkansas and Buffalo NY stopped requiring off-street parking and found that walkable shopping districts boost local business. Its some...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KRZA
- Added: Feb 10, 2019
- Length: 27:59
- Purchases: 4
Gary Hankins is recruited from the air force during the Vietnam War to become a D.C. police officer.
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 15:30
- Purchases: 2
On the 45th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, hundreds imprisoned inside Michigan’s Kinross Correctional Facility refused to report to wor...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: Apr 19, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
2017 has been a terrible year for tens of thousands of people. Fires in northern California and record-setting torrential hurricanes and floods in ...
Bought by KVNF
- Added: Nov 14, 2017
- Length: 20:31
- Purchases: 1
It all started out as a plan to steal some comic books, sell them and split the cash. That was before a busted lip, a heart attack, and federal pro...
- Added: Aug 08, 2017
- Length: 29:34
In April of 2014, federal agents raided the studios of 106.1 TOUCH FM in Boston, Massachusetts. The reason was simple: the radio station was operat...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Feb 08, 2017
- Length: 41:13
- Purchases: 1
Bail is supposed to allow a person accused of a crime to put some money up as a type of collateral - a promise they will return for their court dat...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 27:06
France has been under a “state of emergency” since November, raising questions about the appropriate balance between security and civil liberties.
- Added: Jun 08, 2016
- Length: 25:50
When should a judge step aside? As more and more money floods into judicial elections across the nation, states are grappling with this question. P...
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 30:36
There are 28 judicial emergencies on federal courts throughout the country. A judicial emergency is when there's been a vacancy on the court for to...
- Added: May 03, 2016
- Length: 22:00
Domestic oil drilling offers private landowners the promise of riches in their own backyard. But what if you don’t want to live next door to an oil...
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 22:39
This edition of Making Contact is Part I of our special series examining how immigrants are responding and participating in elections and politics ...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Apr 16, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In "The White Elephant,” Yochai Maital walks us through the history of Tel Aviv’s ‘New’ Central Bus Station — a derelict eight-story behemoth and m...
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 32:00
In Kansas, public schools are at the heart of a debate about how much money the state should budget for education -- a debate that comes down to a ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 32:54
All over the country, critics argue that ID laws discourage voter participation--particularly among poor and minority voters. This is particularly ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 24:44
In the U.S., juries are often seen as democracy in action. Twelve men and women are asked to hear an entire case, and ultimately, decide another pe...
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 23:13
Amateur sleuths armed with their own laptops, public information and a lot of spare time are working alone and in groups to crack criminal cases. S...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KVNF, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 24, 2015
- Length: 32:30
- Purchases: 4
On the eve of the 2015 General Election in the UK, take a jaunt through the etymology of election-related words.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 06, 2015
- Length: 09:01
- Purchases: 1
At an extremely early age, Shavit Ben-Arie became the leading expert on the female members of the Israeli parliament and in many cases, he became t...
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 21:25
