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The F-Word is released bi-monthly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. (00:03:30) "A bridge is only as strong as its weakes...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 03:30
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Smash society and you create craven people. Craven, from the early English word meaning crushed, defeated, overwhelmed.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:30
Caption: Jeff Chang, Credit: Jeremy Villaluz
“From almost every kind of responsibility and tie from engagement and from faith. So the artist--our task is to move ourselves and the rest of us i...

Bought by KALW, KFAI Minneapolis, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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What does equine capital in a Grandpa farm have to do with Turing Pharmaceuticals and its bid to raise the price of a life-saving drug by 50 times?...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2016
  • Length: 08:57
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Is live theatre still relevant? Why do I spend my summers doing family-friendly theatre in small towns?

  • Added: Jul 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:27
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Katia Hauser explores the intricacies of teenagers having the legal right to make their own medical decisions.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
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Should any species be hunted to extinction?

  • Added: Dec 30, 2010
  • Length: 01:14
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
There are two major political parties

  • Added: Oct 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:57

  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 04:11
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
How many Illinois Governors have gone to jail?

  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Chinese philosophy passed on to you by a Swede

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: :36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you don't pollute, you can sell your clean-air credit to those who do.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2010
  • Length: 02:08
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When he felt the heart attack coming on he shot out the windows of the house next door.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2010
  • Length: 01:35
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Why do poor people vote for the party of billionaires?

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jun 09, 2010
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: May 24, 2010
  • Length: 02:37
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Superman got out in time.

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:32
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Stop me if you've heard this one before

  • Added: May 04, 2010
  • Length: :35
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A marriage is the smallest unit of government.

Bought by KUT and WTIP


  • Added: May 04, 2010
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When it applied to them, the bill passed.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2010
  • Length: 01:49
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The more popular the email, the more likely it is to be bogus

  • Added: Mar 06, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Can You Imagine An Election Where TV Ads Were Not Allowed?

  • Added: Mar 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:45
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Thanks to Coolidge and his friends, subsequent presidents have learned the danger in giving banks a free rein.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2010
  • Length: :55
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
It is necessary to offer great perks to our friends who serve in Congress

  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: :54
Caption: m, Credit: Janice Lang
homely politicians are the wave of the future

  • Added: Feb 02, 2010
  • Length: 01:18
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Where but in American could a man start a war that kills a million or so people and not be castigated as much as another man who cheats on his wife?

  • Added: Feb 01, 2010
  • Length: :28