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Is San Francisco a Sanctuary When You Don’t Have Housing?
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Increases in the number of migrants arriving in San Francisco have stress-tested the city’s shelter system, revealing the dire need for more housin...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
Unheard: The Plight of Mayans Struggling with Addiction in SF
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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The impact of the COVID 19 pandemic led to a rise in fatal overdoses among the tens of thousands of Indigenous Mayans living in the Bay area. That...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
Forgetting the Lessons and Losses of Covid
From: KSFP
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The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 21:30
In a Game of Chicken with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, GOP Legislators Pass Somewhat Competitive Redistricting Maps in Effort to Avoid Truly Fair Maps
From: Brian Beihl
Series: American Democracy Minute
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
In a Game of Chicken with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, GOP Legislators Pass Somewhat Competitive Redistricting Maps in Effort to Avoid Truly Fair M...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Gerrymandering
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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The line between fairly splitting a state into voting districts, and purposely grouping voters to give one party an advantage.

Bought by WKSU and Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 2
Disinformation, Misinformation, and Propaganda
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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In preparation for the upcoming election, we’re going to talk about lies, manipulation, and confusion.

Bought by WHFR and Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 2
Why Vote, And How To Do It
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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We vote for our leaders, and those leaders represent our interests, but the impact of your vote isn't always so clear. Here's why you should vote a...

Bought by WYPR, WKSU, KSKA, and Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:30
  • Purchases: 4
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 11
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: David Mivasair canoes Cootes Paradise, Credit: David Kattenburg
The roots of the US anti-abortion movement — misogyny, racism and hatred of immigrants. On the edge of a big Canadian city, an oasis of calm where ...

  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 58:33
Too Healthy for the Hospital, Too Sick for the Streets
From: Tradeoffs
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Why are a growing number of private insurance companies starting to invest in medical respite — a decades-old way of caring for homeless people?

  • Added: May 17, 2022
  • Length: 18:14
Medicare’s Unprecedented Alzheimer’s Drug Decision
From: Tradeoffs
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In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 22:47
Why A Major Immigration Law Might Be Unconstitutional
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Emily Green tells us the story of Edgar Lopez, a grandfather of four who was killed trying to make his way back hom...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 22, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Embrace Complexity To Overcome Polarization? Discussing a Way Out with Dr. Peter Coleman of The Difficult Conversations Lab
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Embrace Complexity To Overcome Polarization? Discussing a Way Out with Dr. Peter Coleman of The Difficult Conversations Lab
Police reform, gun violence, global warming... When did you last have a civil, informative, productive conversation with someone of differing opini...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:10
When you see a barricade, do you feel safe?
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Slow Streets' hit a bump in Oakland and turned into something better.

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Jun 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Declaration of Independents, Alaska Style: Ballot Question Two Takes on Political Partisanship
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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The great state of Alaska is different in many ways – its vast size, low population, and great distance from “the lower 48” (states). Politics in A...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 25:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Outlook from Dead Center: Former U.S. Representative Jason Altmire on the Rise of Congressional Partisanship
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Episode 7
Did you hear the one about bipartisanship? Two opposing congressmen walk into a town hall…and civil discussion breaks out.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 26:08
A SUDDEN LOSS - A Memorial To Lives Lost To COVID-19 (59:00 / 54:00 / 29:00/ plus optional 2nd hour)
From: Paul Ingles
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Popular public radio hosts, past and present, read short eulogies to just some of the tens of thousands lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the las...

Bought by Hawaii Public Radio, MPR News Stations, KAAD-LP, Boise State Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 42
S2 Ep 2: Treating acute pain to prevent opioid dependence
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season Two
Caption: Megan and Scarlett coming home from the hospital, Credit: The Swarners
Washington State law around opioid prescribing has recently changed. Reporter Eilís O’Neill follows a couple, Megan and Ben, through the birth of t...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2020
  • Length: 19:04
Ep 3: Treating the opioid epidemic like a natural disaster
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
Caption: Sheriff Ty Trenary, Credit: Leah Nash for Finding Fixes
Addiction hits home for the top dog of a disaster-prone county. An old-school cop gets a wake-up call and learns “handcuffs and a trip to jail” jus...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 26:39
Ep 1: Fighting the opioid epidemic with Suboxone and telemedicine
From: Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
Series: Finding Fixes Season One
Caption: A patient video conferencing with a medical provider at Ideal Option the clinic in Everett, WA., Credit: Leah Nash for Finding Fixes
At a clinic in Everett, Washington, a nurse pushes his patients to work hard, and the patients embark on their road to recovery. This episode we're...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 15, 2019
  • Length: 25:34
  • Purchases: 1
Willful Acts
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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We look at the question of whether addicts have free will, as it played out in a case in the Supreme Court in 1987, and the Massachusetts Supreme C...

  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 47:10
Sacrifice Zones - Part 2 (Encore Edition)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mosier Fire , Credit: Image by: Paloma Ayala
On this encore edition of Making Contact, we present the final installment in a two-part series on the pressure to transform a region of iconic lan...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Cost of War: A Reflection on the United States and Iraq Conflict
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War present at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, GA. , Credit: Photo by flickr user Brooke Anderson.
Almost 4,500 American soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqis have died since the start of the Shock and Awe campaign. Fourteen years later, we asses...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, XRAY.fm, and WXDU


  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Oh, Give Me a Home | Episode 4 | Tatanka Oyate
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
Caption: Robbie Magnan of the Fort Peck Tribes, Credit: Amy Martin
In episode four of Threshold, we meet Robbie Magnan of the Fort Peck Tribes. He believes his community can prosper in the future by reconnecting wi...

Bought by KPIP-LP, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, Prairie Public, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Ep. 1: The Death of Kollin Elderts
From: Honolulu Civil Beat
Series: Offshore
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Honolulu Civil Beat reporter Jessica Terrell introduces the deadly events of Nov. 5, 2011 when a white off-duty federal agent shot and killed a Nat...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 36:35
  • Purchases: 1
Interrogators Without Pliers
From: Matt Thompson
Caption: Hanns Scharff "Master Interrogator" of the Luftwaffe, Credit: Scharff Estate
Why torture doesn't work. How to trick the enemy into revealing secrets. Lessons from the Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe. The British Poli...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 27:31
  • Purchases: 2