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The Mount Polley taililngs pond breach happened a couple of weeks after Liz returned from the Action Camp. She speaks to author Arno Kopecky about ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2014
- Length: 18:40
Legislative ethics exist to put the brakes on political gamesmanship- whether it’s trading votes to pass a bill, get a fat salaried new Federal job...
- Added: Aug 20, 2014
- Length: 10:07
The vision of Gorbachev now is destroyed by Vladimir Putin. A sonnet will remind us of what Gorbachev made possible and what is now lost by Putin's...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: :57
- Purchases: 1
When politicians talk about "working across the aisle", they talk about it as if they are endorsing a great ethic. But working across the aisle is...
- Added: May 01, 2014
- Length: 07:04
Jonathan speaks with Inna Shevchenko, a leader of the radical feminist protest organization FEMEN, whose manifestations have garnered her equal mea...
- Added: Feb 24, 2014
- Length: 25:58
The protesters in Ukraine are showing us on a very public stage that criticism free from harassment and ridicule of the actions of public elected ...
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 06:47
How may speech affect your perceived level of intelligence? Dr. John Baugh describes research that sheds light on linguistic profiling.
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- Added: Feb 17, 2014
- Length: 12:31
- Purchases: 1
Winning is the short view of Political gamesmanship.Fake news creation is part and parcel of it. Environmental contamination is the long view when ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 07:50
A special hour-long documentary, where host Martina Castro and reporter Ali Budner trace the path of a 9-1-1 call in Oakland, California to figure ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 56:30
- Purchases: 1
Millions of Americans have received letters from insurance companies in the last few months, cancelling their health plans. It’s part of the transi...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 10:58
- Added: Nov 02, 2013
- Length: 01:44
Boys' State is an experiment in Democracy that a select group of high school boys attend in Maine this week. We can hope they will learn about the...
- Added: Oct 17, 2013
- Length: 06:00
Sonnets are a way to find optimism in difficult times. This is a sonnet that acknowledges that the first fish is the best fish and can provide f...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KMXT
- Added: Oct 13, 2013
- Length: :51
- Purchases: 2
On every city block, there are rules. Some are unspoken, some require friendly reminders, some are enforced by the law. Is it ever OK to break the ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2013
- Length: 12:16
What do we really know about death row in California? When we don’t know we create, we imagine.
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 2
Red Hook is an isolated neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, once known as the “crack capital of America.” In 2000, residents banded together to create a ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 3
You’ve just been arrested, charged with a felony and can’t afford to pay your bail, let alone hire a lawyer. You know you have the right to a trial...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 13:00
- Purchases: 1
Is the law ever a laughing matter? We present to you a brief history of attempted comedy in the toughest room in the country—the Supreme Courtroom.
Bought by KALW
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 12:16
- Purchases: 1
George F. Johnson was the owner of the Endicott Johnson Corp. — at one time the country’s leading shoe manufacturer — and one of the nation’s leadi...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZMU Moab Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 16:09
- Purchases: 4
I am a licensed psychologist. One question routinely asked is; "Do you have guns in your home?" If they say yes, I ask, "Are they in a locked cabi...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 03:35
The riverbank is a public space open for everyone. But people do not always agree on how to best spend a hot summer day.
- Added: Oct 13, 2012
- Length: 16:17
- Purchases: 2
In California, there are hundreds if not thousands of people practicing criminal law though they’ve never passed a bar exam. They don’t wear suits....
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 14:10
- Purchases: 2
Juries have a little known power that allows them to ignore the law and vote with their own instincts. This piece explores how juries have used tha...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, WJCT, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 11:47
- Purchases: 5
The Republican attack on women, a not- so thinly veiled attack on credibility, the females, that is, is not new. Women, you may remember, require ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 04:46
December 2011: a hundred Occupy protesters have been camping out in the centre of London's financial district for 2 months. Who are they? Do they a...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 29:04
- Purchases: 1
