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Many Americans with white skin have begun to think explicitly about race and its consequences. What does it mean to be white in America?
- Added: May 24, 2024
- Length: 52:51
- Added: May 23, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Election season is still a few months away, but the scent of it is already on the wind. There is a lot at stake in the presidential election, of co...
- Added: Apr 24, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Turns out Americans don't feel great about the direction of our country. But what exactly are they upset about, and are things as bad as they think?
Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, KICI Iowa City, and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
In response to a surge in migrants and asylum seekers at America’s borders, the Secure the Border Act of 2023 aims to enforce stricter limitations ...
Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Dec 14, 2023
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 2
2023 marks the 75th anniversary of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What does it mean to commemorate Human Rights Day in a time of genoci...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMUN, KDNK, KWMR, and WNYE
- Added: Dec 13, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
This week we continue delving into community-rooted disaster relief in California. From building mutual aid networks, to translating emergency mess...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Dec 12, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In Part Two of my conversation with Chesa Boudin, we explore how his experiences as a child have informed his approach to criminal justice, and his...
- Added: Jun 29, 2023
- Length: 29:30
Originalism is a way of interpreting the Constitution that could help it be understood through either framer’s intent or what the public would’ve i...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 08, 2023
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
The US has more than $31 trillion in national debt. If it is breached, the government may go into default, leading to national and global consequen...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jun 01, 2023
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we explore the sharp increase in fentanyl deaths across the country, including in San Francisco and the Bay Area, which had thus f...
- Added: Jul 06, 2022
- Length: 29:30
A look at homeless encampment fires in the Bay Area with Three journalists at the San Francisco Public Press and Mission Local have been tracking f...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 22, 2022
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
We begin our episode with our monthly round up of prison disturbances contributed by Perilous Chronicle. We close out the episode with a call from ...
- Added: Dec 11, 2021
- Length: 29:00
This week, we cover carceral non-profits in an interview with Drs. Zhandarka Kurti, a professor of criminology and Criminal Justice at Loyola Unive...
- Added: Dec 11, 2021
- Length: 29:00
All across the country, life is inching towards a pre-pandemic normal, but the mental health impact of the pandemic will cast a long shadow. This s...
- Added: Jul 23, 2021
- Length: 04:26
In this episode of The Purple Principle, we wonder, what’s behind those red and blue maps of American political and social geography and our deepen...
- Added: Apr 06, 2021
- Length: 32:20
Does history create vulnerabilities that any number of populist politicians could seize upon? Or do exceptional populists create those opportunitie...
- Added: Mar 09, 2021
- Length: 34:19
The Year 2020 has not exactly been brimming with good news. Certainly in terms of public health and the economy, you could say it was the worst of ...
- Added: Dec 31, 2020
- Length: 28:06
Republicans say they hate debt. So why did they push for a tax bill that would add almost two trillion dollars to the country’s tab? Only one Repub...
- Added: Oct 01, 2020
- Length: 42:50
This is a story about potential rent strikes across NYCHA facilities in New York City. I talked with residents considering strikes (or in the midst...
- Added: Apr 23, 2020
- Length: 03:48
On today’s program:
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson explains why London thinks Russia is responsible for the nerve agent attack on a forme...
- Added: Mar 22, 2018
- Length: 58:59
This week on Life of the Law, our team meets IN-STUDIO with Wendy Weiser, Director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NY...
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 40:56
Residents are experts on their neighborhoods, but their voices often go unheard in local decision making. Professor Tia Gaynor discusses initiative...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Jul 26, 2017
- Length: 21:53
- Purchases: 1
Social Entrepreneur, Justin Dillon discusses his book, "A Selfish Plan to End the World: Finding Big Purpose in Big Problems.
- Added: May 27, 2017
- Length: 58:01
- Purchases: 2
The 2016 elections are over but what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and schol...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 55:48
