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Episode 51: In this week’s episode, Melanie sat down to talk with Lorel Donaghey, a former Program Director at a refugee resettlement agency in Tuc...
- Added: Dec 19, 2019
- Length: 04:31
- Added: Dec 05, 2017
- Length: 13:34
- Purchases: 1
The Living Well Show presents Dr. Marjorie J. Spruill, author of Divided We Stand: The Battle Over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized ...
- Added: Jul 21, 2017
- Length: 28:30
On this edition, we hear from Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton Universit...
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- Added: Jan 19, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Host Bob Kustra talks with Aaron David Miller about his book about the U.S. presidency.
- Added: Jan 13, 2017
- Length: 30:31
American is standing on the brink of an extraordinary revolution: an energy revolution.
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- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Investigative journalist Lou Freshwater writes:
"In the middle of the United States there is a landfill contaminated by nuclear waste which was lef...
- Added: Dec 09, 2015
- Length: 28:43
An urban studies professor explores some of the problems shared by cities around the globe.
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 10:00
- Added: Jan 17, 2015
- Length: 11:51
It’s the artists — from Orwell of Nineteen Eighty-Four, to Philip Dick and Margaret Atwood, to Trevor Paglen and Banksy — who raise the big questio...
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- Added: Jul 11, 2014
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill talks cover-ups, blow-back, and fun & games in Saddam’s Iraq.
- Added: Jun 19, 2013
- Length: 16:43
PHOENIX - Opponents of Arizona's SB1070 law say Monday's Supreme Court ruling is a first step in defeating the entire law.
- Added: Jun 26, 2012
- Length: 02:15
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. - The North Carolina State Assembly is moving forward with a budget plan that includes some restoration of education funding los...
- Added: Jun 21, 2012
- Length: 01:45
WASHINGTON - Monday was the first day for the Supreme Court to release its rulings for this term, but there's no ruling yet on the constitutionalit...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 01:46
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - An Obama administration policy announced Friday will stop the deportation of illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as childre...
- Added: Jun 18, 2012
- Length: 02:42
The U.S. Senate is taking up the Farm Bill, which will set the nation's food policy for the next five years.
- Added: Jun 06, 2012
- Length: 01:34
Can corruption be legitimized by common usage, legal process, or subsequent legislation? Should old crimes go unpunished by legislative amnesty? Or...
- Added: Jun 01, 2011
- Length: 02:00
Should you ever deal with dictators? Two American journalists held hostage in North Korea were released as a result of Bill Clinton's recent meetin...
- Added: Sep 16, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Should government supplement markets to increase the public good? Should it regulate markets to protect the public good? How much is too much regul...
- Added: Sep 16, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Policies are often debated along three dimensions: effectiveness, efficiency, and expediency. In place of a fourth dimension—applied ethics—we usua...
- Added: Sep 16, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Modern self-determination and the concept of nationality are closely linked, and have frequently led to instances of ethnic cleansing. Can national...
- Added: Sep 16, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Is it ever ethical to violate a democratic constitution? If the rationale for military intervention is to save democracy, does that make it legitim...
- Added: Sep 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Why can't the U.S. negotiate a domestic solution to health care? Individuals are certainly responsible for their health. A wealthy society can also...
- Added: Sep 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
French President Nicolas Sarkozy recently declared that burqas are not welcome in France. To some, the burqa represents the suppression of women. Y...
- Added: Sep 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
When are elections legitimate? What about Iran? Elections assume that losers accept results. Because many disagree, can they overturn an election? ...
- Added: Sep 12, 2009
- Length: 01:30
