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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
Radio Curious discusses police misconduct, accountability and the Black Lives Matter movement with Dr. Joseph Marshall, a member of the San Francis...
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- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Bail is supposed to allow a person accused of a crime to put some money up as a type of collateral - a promise they will return for their court dat...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 27:06
There are 28 judicial emergencies on federal courts throughout the country. A judicial emergency is when there's been a vacancy on the court for to...
- Added: May 03, 2016
- Length: 22:00
Domestic oil drilling offers private landowners the promise of riches in their own backyard. But what if you don’t want to live next door to an oil...
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 22:39
March 17th is Arts Advocacy Day in Minnesota. Laura Seter and Holly Alcott make up the staff of the Region 2 Arts Council in Bemidji. They’ll be he...
- Added: Mar 16, 2016
- Length: 10:19
In Kansas, public schools are at the heart of a debate about how much money the state should budget for education -- a debate that comes down to a ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 32:54
"Criminal Justice System.” Those three words intimidate a lot of us. Megan Treuer is Associate Judge at Leech Lake. She voluntarily heads the Crim...
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- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 08:46
- Purchases: 1
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
Given their significance to global economies, corporate leaders' influence reaches beyond the walls of their businesses. How do they use that power...
- Added: Aug 04, 2015
- Length: 29:39
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 5 candidates for the Democratic nomination to run for the Bloomington City Council seat in November.
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 58:36
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
We're asking the $64,000 question: can we build a more crash-proof, less leveraged, more equitable financial system? Our guest Jeremy Allaire would...
- Added: Mar 31, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
We’re revisiting the Attica prison revolt in 1971. It began as a civil rights protest and ended in a massacre when Governor Nelson Rockefeller orde...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZYX
- Added: Mar 15, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
On this Kickstarter-launch week we’re diagnosing America’s healthcare woes with the meta-journalist and heart patient, Steve Brill.
- Added: Jan 25, 2015
- Length: 58:37
Starting last month, the American freeze-out of Communist Cuba, which long outlasted the Cold War, began to come to an end. It may have been a smal...
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- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
To make sense of this new era in low-income housing in San Francisco, we’re going to travel back in time and follow the story as it unfolds into th...
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- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 10:01
- Purchases: 1
The news from the big-money midterm is: meh!
Democrats are out, the Republicans are in, and the country’s feeling bluer than ever. Six years after...
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 58:37
Host Doug Storm offers selections from two previous shows on the state of public education in Indiana and the nation.
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 59:11
The shooting at Seattle Pacific University marks the latest gun-related tragedy in the U.S. It follows the attacks in Isla Vista at UC Santa Barbar...
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- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 09:14
- Purchases: 1
As of the latest national elections, it costs approximately $1 billion to become president, $10 million to become a Senator, and $1 million to beco...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 21, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
David Bromwich introduces us to the conservative hero Edmund Burke, the 18th-century British statesman who befriended the American Revolution, hate...
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- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 58:36
- Purchases: 1
In an unprecedented event this Spring, the Sunflower Student Movement occupied Taiwan's Legislative Yuan for over three weeks in protest against a ...
- Added: Apr 23, 2014
- Length: 26:20
