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  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the coun...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 19:17
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Trump was President from 2016 To 2020, but he’s never won an election. He lost the nationwide popular vote in 2016, but still made it to the White ...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Steven Petrow (R) and Jay Petrow (L) kiss their sister Julie Petrow-Cohen. Julie used New Jersey’s medical aid in dying law after a six-year battle with ovarian cancer., Credit: Courtesy of the Petrow family
A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 21:12
Caption: Host Martha Burk
January 22 marks the 51st anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, when the court ruled abortion was legal under U.S....

  • Added: Jan 19, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Precious Mae Clark reviews her medical bills.
Congress banned most surprise medical bills back in 2020, with one major exception: ambulance rides. Most people agree that patients should be shie...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2023
  • Length: 29:50
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Nov 7 marked the one year countdown to the 2024 Presidential election. It was both a kick in the pants and clown show on the Republican side, and a...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
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Employers are facing a big dilemma: How do they pay for the new highly effective and popular obesity medications without breaking the bank? This we...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 21:56
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Ashish Jha shifted from the role of academic theorizing about health policy into a calm, reassuring voice leading the White House’s COVID response....

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  • Added: Jul 21, 2023
  • Length: 16:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Medicare could soon pay hospitals much less for common outpatient services like x-rays and checkups. This week, we explain an old policy gathering...

  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 17:51
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The Affordable Care Act faces yet another in a long string of legal challenges. Last Thursday's ruling, by a conservative federal judge who has tar...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 14:07
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We dig into three research papers to make sense of what will happen to 15 million people set to lose their Medicaid over the next year.

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 16:55
  • Purchases: 1
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The lack of affordable housing in the U.S. has contributed to a homelessness crisis and has forced people to move farther away from urban centers. ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
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One year of health insurance premiums for a family of four now costs as much as a car. Nine states are trying to lower those costs in an aggressive...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 17:45
Caption: One Golden State, Two Democratic Parties: These Not So United States (CA Part 1), Credit: The Purple Principle
Has the California dream given way to a cost of living nightmare? NPR veteran and LA resident Barbara Bogaev co-hosts with Rob Pease for an in-dept...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 35:03
  • Purchases: 1
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The country’s high rates of pregnancy-related deaths and complications, and the potential impact Biden’s push to expand Medicaid coverage for pregn...

  • Added: May 26, 2022
  • Length: 17:33
Caption: Georgia On All Our Minds: These Not So United States, Credit: The Purple Principle
All political roads lead to Georgia these days. The Peach State was so pivotal in the 2020 election of Joe Biden and the 2021 runoff election of tw...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 32:50
Caption: Politically Persuadable But Focused on Jobs? Hispanic American Swing Voters (Part 1), Credit: The Purple Principle
Is a large and growing segment of Hispanic American voters now leaning independent? That’s the operative question in this first episode on Hispanic...

  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 30:51
Caption: Is Texas the Future of America? These Not So United States (TX Finale), Credit: The Purple Principle
The Purple Principle brings its seven-part series on politics and identity in the already huge, yet fast-growing Lone Star State to a conclusion wi...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 27:16
Caption: Growth, Diversity & One Party Politics? (TX Part 3), Credit: The Purple Principle
Is democracy still democracy when one party wins all the elections? That’s a question we’ll be asking around the country on our state level identi...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 32:57
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In an episode originally aired in April, we look at what happens when you think you know what you’re doing… and don’t listen to the people you are ...

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


  • Added: Dec 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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In this episode, we look at democracy movements fighting to survive in the shadow of a Russian government that’s determined to consolidate power.

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


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Renters impacted by the pandemic face eviction now that a moratorium on evictions has ended. Tenant, legal and public health advocates are urging r...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
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Monopoly capitalism may be on its last legs! Economist Michael Hudson joins us to say his predictions on the Trump budget have come true and seem t...

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  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Laura Everett
The problem of outsourcing of education and mental health services in prisons to evangelical Christian ministries and the challenge transit violenc...

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  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 2