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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
Are We A Democracy Or A Republic?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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Is the US a democracy or a republic? And why do we only have two dominant political parties?

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:32
  • Purchases: 1
How Secure Are Our Elections?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: 2024 Election Toolkit
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A wave of recent legislation across the country promised to make our elections "more secure." Where did this suspicion of our voting process come f...

Bought by Vermont Public


  • Added: Jan 08, 2024
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 1
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
The Costly, Confusing Medicare Choices Facing 62 Million Americans
From: Tradeoffs
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It’s Medicare open enrollment — the one chance each year that all 62 million beneficiaries have to shop for better coverage. But choosing a new pla...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 22:50
Women Rising Radio: Women Challenge Capitalism
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Women Rising Radio #40 explores the global women's movement to resist the violence and greed of capitalism. A women-led village in Kurdish Syria e...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
When The State Stopped
From: WITF
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Documenting the first two months of unprecedented events due to the coronavirus pandemic in Pennsylvania.

Bought by 90.5 WESA and WLVT


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 52:27
  • Purchases: 2
Vaping: What You Don't Know Can Kill You - Hour Special
From: KRCB 104.9
Series: Vaping: What You Don't Know Can Kill You
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We investigate the dangers of vaping, while listening to the voices of high school administrators, health professionals and students. One thing is ...

Bought by KOSU, WHYY, Prairie Public, WXXI Rochester, WRVO Public Media and more


  • Added: Dec 03, 2019
  • Length: 01:05:51
  • Purchases: 12
Sierra Leone's Conflict Diamond Trade (2004 NPR's Day2Day)
From: Hechtech
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David Hecht reports on the condition of Sierra Leone's diamond trade

  • Added: May 08, 2018
  • Length: 05:07
Using Social Media for Wildlife Monitoring
From: Betsy Brown
Caption: Instagram Hashtag Search for #monkseal
Learn how scientists are using social to monitor endangered monk seals and the people who see them in the wild.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: 04:25
Keeping Teachers
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Teacher Christopher McFadden is a member of The Fellowship, a group in Philadelphia trying to recruit and retain black male teachers. Only 2 percent of teachers in American public schools are black men., Credit: Emily Hanford
(8/28/2017) There may be nothing more important in the educational life of a child than having effective teachers. But the United States is struggl...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUER, Georgia Public Broadcasting, KOSU, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Aug 28, 2017
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 10
Episode 10: Big Fish, Big Science
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Biochemist Dana Wetzel dissects a fish exposed to oil in the lab., Credit: David Levin
Scientists at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, are leading a new experiment that will help uncover the effects of oil spills on fis...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 08:20
Episode 9: Mapping Oil Spills by Satellite
From: David Levin
Series: The Loop: Stories from the Gulf
Caption: Chuanmin Hu, an optical oceanographer at USF, points to a map of the Ixtoc-1 spill made from archival satellite data.
The 1979 Ixtoc-1 oil spill spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, but has since been largely forgotten. More than 35 years late...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2017
  • Length: 09:50
The Sharing Economy? (Short)
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In this first episode of Upstream, a radio documentary series, we look at the darker side of the "sharing economy" and explore the conditions that ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 1
EP 1 — The Sharing Economy?
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In this first episode of Upstream, a radio documentary series, we look at the darker side of the "sharing economy" and explore the conditions that ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: Feb 13, 2016
  • Length: 59:44
  • Purchases: 2
Sleepy City 01: Marijuana Borderlands
From: Liz McArthur
Series: Sleepy City Podcast
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Marijuana dispensaries in Victoria, BC occupy legal borderlands. Their very existence is contrary to the law of the land, but the law isn't crackin...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 27:51
Teaching Teachers
From: American Public Media
Series: APM Reports: Focus on Education
Caption: Teachers in Chicago doing "lesson study," a teacher improvement practice borrowed from Japan., Credit: Emily Hanford
This documentary what it would take to improve American teaching on a wide scale. We meet researchers who are trying to understand what makes teach...

Bought by WMUU-LP, Prairie Public, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 10, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Wildlandfire
From: Whitney Henry-Lester
Caption: The view from Stehekin
Recorded on an iphone while on vacation 2 miles away from a wildfire. Recorded for KCRW's 24 Hour Radio Race.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2015
  • Length: 04:35
  • Purchases: 1
The Future of Coal
From: The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment
Caption: A coal terminal in Eastern Kentucky., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
Can the Appalachian Mountains recover from centuries of mining? What will happen to the thousands of coal miners projected to lose their jobs in th...

Bought by Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 28, 2015
  • Length: 51:59
  • Purchases: 1
In Kentucky, a Prairie Made by Coal
From: Reid Frazier
Caption: Up to a million acres of strip-mined land have been de-forested., Credit: Photo: Reid Frazier
More than a million acres of strip-mined land—an area the size of Rhode Island—are now deforested in Appalachia.

Bought by WMMT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:18
  • Purchases: 3
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
From: Anna Hamilton
Series: Watershed
Caption: Fossilized coral lies under foot in the pine rockland ecosystem., Credit: Anna Hamilton
In Florida's Miami-Dade County, tensions are mounting over a fragment of endangered pine rockland.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 13:31
When Oregon's Fort Stevens was shelled during WWII, Why didn't They Fire Back?
From: Ron Johnson
Series: Because It Matters
Caption: The 10-inch guns at Battery Russell that weren't fired.
The US mainland hadn't been attacked since the War of 1812 until a summer evening during 1942. And when Battery Russell on the Oregon coast was sh...

Bought by WSLR and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 08, 2014
  • Length: 15:47
  • Purchases: 2
The Making of the Disease Detectives, Or the Case of the Nutty Dish
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: Disease Detective Badge, Credit: CDC
They’re called disease detectives – the nation’s medical eyes and ears on the lookout for disease outbreaks and bioterror attacks. They’re the Epid...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, and 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 25, 2014
  • Length: 09:04
  • Purchases: 3
Strong-armed
From: Neena Pathak
Caption: Danni Jesudowich and Paul McClanahan instruct Keely Ahlstrom on how to shoot a full vent ribbed 20 gauge Benelli semi-automatic shotgun with adjustable chokes.
The National Rifle Association started its Women on Target program in 2000. According to their website, they’ve trained over eighty thousand women...

Bought by KUER and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 2
Shadows of Innocence: Sexual Assault Among Indiana’s Youth
From: WFIU
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An hour-long radio documentary examining sexual assault on high school-aged girls in Indiana, featuring stories of sexual assault survivors, as wel...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 53:59