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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
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: 59:57
The Living Well Show presents Greg Palast, investigative journalist, who tells us about the "New Jim Crow" efforts to deny the vote to millions of ...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 28:41
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
She speaks to us about her "Her latest book They Take Our Jobs and 20 Other Myths about Immigration, she dismantles common assumptions and beliefs ...
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 27:30
Host Doug Storm is joined by District 1 candidates for the Democratic nomination to run for the Bloomington City Council seat in November.
- Added: Apr 15, 2015
- Length: 58:54
As authorities searched for one of the Boston Marathon bombers, the city of Boston and its suburbs were put on lockdown. Was this action justified?...
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 02:09
From Spain to Scotland to even the United States, separatist movements are making headlines. Do any of these have a chance to succeed? Or all they ...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 02:02
Is it time to reform the U.S. electoral structure? Should more views be represented? Do narrow interests have too much power?
- Added: Nov 08, 2012
- Length: 02:03
Anti-gay legislation is garnering support in Ukraine and many other countries are backtracking on equal rights for homosexuals. Is there anything i...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 02:05
- Purchases: 1
The gun control debate in the United States has been revived in the wake of the Aurora massacre. With thousands of firearm-related homicides each y...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 02:00
CHINOOK, Mont. - Border control powers under the Department of Homeland Security would be expanded under a bill approved by the U.S. House of Repre...
- Added: Jun 21, 2012
- Length: 02:09
ASHEVILLE, N.C. - A fresh push to pass a bill that would allow North Carolinians with concealed-carry permits to bring handguns into the state's re...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 01:40
