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Caption: Host Martha Burk
Okaay, April Fools Day is upon us, so let's have a little fun and nominate some of your national leaders for the biggest fool prize, and of course...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 02:59
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Congress is wrangling over the Farm Bill, which includes over $3 billion for giant agriculture corporations and multimillionaire "farmers" who don'...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 02:57
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This is a 2-way interview with Sophia A. McClennen, a scholar of satire and politics and author of Trump Was a Joke, How Satire Made Sense of a Pr...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2023
  • Length: 20:53
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Port Arthur Texas is home base for the largest oil refinery in North America and a dizzying toxic array of fossil fuel and chemical facilities. But...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
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Carol Anderson, a professor at Emory University, discusses her book, “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy.” John...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 53:58
Caption: Myq Kaplan
Ok, Comedians, make America laugh with surprising, original jokes that offend absolutely no one and work equally well in our very blue, very red an...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 21:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Straight Pride"
August 1, 2019 - OutCaster Alex takes a humorous look at the "Straight Pride" parade planned for later this month in Boston.

  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 05:59
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Join Political Junkie Ken Rudin and an all-star lineup of political reporters, commentators and special guests for a full hour of analysis of the 2...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WJSU, Spokane Public Radio, KVNF, and KAZU Seaside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 5
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Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...

Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, joins following the release of her new book, "What Happened," to discuss the tragic mass shooting ...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2018
  • Length: 40:12
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about Communism as a quasi-religious faith that might ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
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Donald Trump has finally decided on a nominee for secretary of state, but it turns out that this may be the most controversial Cabinet appointee of...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KCCU Radio, WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 14, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Jeff Tiberii, a political reporter North Carolina public radio station WUNC, talks about the belated concession this week of Republican Governor Pa...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Even though it was Donald Trump who said he might not accept the results of the presidential election, it turns out that Jill Stein -- the Green Pa...

Bought by KCCU Radio, KSFR, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 5
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John Dickerson, the host of "Face the Nation," has a new book that is filled with his favorite political moments in history. He brings many of the...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Ray Suarez, formerly of the PBS NewsHour, remembers his friend and colleague Gwen Ifill, who passed away this week after battling cancer. She was...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 16, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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The election is over and, in case you missed it, Donald Trump won. Lisa Desjardins of the PBS NewsHour and Greg Giroux of Bloomberg explain what ha...

Bought by KSFR, WRFA-LP, KCPW Salt Lake City, XRAY.fm, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 5
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The election is over and, in case you missed it, Donald Trump won. Lisa Desjardins of the PBS Newshour and Greg Giroux of Bloomberg explain what h...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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The polls have tightened and both camps are pulling out all the stops. NPR political correspondent Mara Liasson and Aaron Blake, a political report...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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In the aftermath of the anti-war protests at the 1968 Democratic convention, several protesters were arrested and tried for conspiracy. We revisit ...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Oct 26, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Former congressman Russ Carnahan reflects on the unimaginable tragedy that claimed the lives of his father, then Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan, an...

Bought by KCCU Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 2
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The most surreal and vicious presidential debate is now in the history books, and it came in the wake of some lewd comments Donald Trump made in 20...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Oct 12, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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NPR's Ron Elving makes a special visit to the Political Junkie to assess the presidential campaign, the media coverage and how much he misses worki...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRST-FM Oshkosh, WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 5
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The first presidential debate is in the books. Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post offers a complete analysis of the debate's high and low moments...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRST-FM Oshkosh, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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With the first presidential debate just days away -- and anticipation growing -- we hear from communications specialist Ruth Sherman as to what Hil...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4