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Caption: White text reading "Borders: What are they good for?" superimposed on top of a greyscale background showing the jagged border between two sides of a sand dune., Credit: Original photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash. Digitally altered by Lucy Kang.
What are borders, and why do we have them? And how is violent border enforcement at the US-Mexico border connected to Israel's brutal assault on Ga...

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  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Deerfield, 1963 , Credit: ART SHAY / @ART SHAY ARCHIVE, 2018
A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 14:55
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On this edition, we hear from Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton Universit...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Things we learn from Woody Guthrie and Native Americans ... and Donald Trump's dad?

  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 27:19
Caption: Janessa Gans Wilder
Janessa Gans Wilder was a CIA analyst stationed in the Green Zone during the first couple of years of U.S. occupation of Iraq. After 21 months work...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:39
Caption: Rich Austin, ILWU
Interview: Part 3 of a 6 part series called ‘War on the Workers’ starts off with Rich being interviewed about how working class Americans are getti...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:21
Caption: JP Sotille
Unspun takes a deeper look at Obama's State of the Union Address 2015, with JP Sottile, the Newsvandal.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 55:12
Caption: Cat Brooks
Mauro Oliviera, local activist and producer of Smallworldradio.net, co-hosts with me today. Our guest is direct action activist and organizer, Cat...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2015
  • Length: 58:54
Caption: Host Martha Burk
According to the latest statistics available, one teen or child is killed with a gun every 3 hours 15 minutes, many by their peers. It's time for ...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
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What India's latest space mission to Mars can tell us about the difficulties in reconciling the aspirations of the "haves" and the "have nots."

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
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What a suicide attack in Tiananmen Square can tell us about the Chinese government's struggle with dissent.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:07
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When China loosens the peg of its currency to the dollar, the U.S. will benefit--but it may hurt labor in China. While the looser Chinese currency ...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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In Rwanda, 92 percent of citizens have government-mandated health insurance, collectively owned by the policy-holders themselves. Does organizing h...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Governments have a moral responsibility to protect their citizens. How far does that extend? Is a "kill list" justified?

  • Added: Jun 29, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Should the U.S. be helping developing countries when it has its own dramatic domestic problems?

  • Added: Jun 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Will the next dominant international conflict be between state capitalism and free market capitalism? Will it supplant the war on terror? What do y...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2010
  • Length: 02:15
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How do we meet the massive global issue of fertility without being mired in the abortion debate?

  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Are babies born with the morality they need or do they learn it from society? Is morality a biological trait that builds communities through enligh...

  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:15
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Should the U.S. shed some global ambitions and responsibilities? Or, is America's global role simply too important, both to the U.S. and the world?...

  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:15
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Should election results accurately reflect public opinion or should elections promote effective governance?

  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Is it time to reform the U.S. electoral structure? Should more views be represented? Do narrow interests have too much power? What do you think?

  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Are nuclear weapons a necessary evil? Is it better to live in a world with nuclear deterrence or one that is free of nuclear threats? What do you t...

  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Is the role of the NCAA to help students succeed through sports, or to garner money for educational institutions? With the high drop-out rate of NC...

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  • Added: May 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Benefits from altruism include approval, enhanced image, and neural stimulation--feeling good. Yet if you act selfishly you will have more resource...

  • Added: May 19, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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What do you think maximizes individual benefits in the marketplace? Is it cut throat competition or altruistic norms of fairness and trust? Can you...

  • Added: May 19, 2010
  • Length: 02:00