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President Obama nominated D.C. Circuit Court Judge Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court following the death of Antonin Sca...

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


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 5
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With Bernie Sanders winning Michigan against the odds, and with Donald Trump having a great day despite the growing Dump Trump movement, the campai...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 5
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The battle for control of the Senate is starting to heat up, and this week's primaries gave us the first indication of what the voters are saying. ...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Greg Giroux of Bloomberg News and Al From, the founder and former CEO of the Democratic Leadership Council discuss the history of Super Tuesday and...

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 6
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Things have become decidedly negative in the GOP contest, which is not surprising. But it doesn't come close to what we've seen in past Palmetto S...

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  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Jerry Smith co-founded the Bemidji Area Mountain Bikers, also known as BAMB. In a couple of weeks, BAMB will host their second annual fat bike rall...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2016
  • Length: 07:21
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Most people have an overused word or two that drives them crazy when they hear it, and the folks at Lake Superior State University are doing someth...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 18:35
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The New Hampshire primary is over and the results are landslide victories for the so-called anti-establishment "outsiders" -- Donald Trump on the R...

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 3
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One candidate who once had dreams of being president was Gary Bauer, a Republican who made appeals to religious conservatives in 2000. Sixteen yea...

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  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Allen Ginsberg reading poetry, Credit: The New York Public Library Digital Collections
One of Allen Ginsberg's first publishers was taken to court for a book that an undercover police officer deemed "not fit for children to read."

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: :59
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On this episode of Wish We Were Here, we bring you the story of Ron Stallworth. In the 1970s, he became the first black detective ever to serve in ...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 45:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Just days to go before the 2016 Iowa caucuses and who better to bring us up to speed on what's going on than Kathie Obradovich, the political colum...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Throughout his long career Sargent Shriver was the ultimate optimist, seeing the good in people. He was the first head of the Peace Corps, architec...

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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What do acting, literature and philosophy have in common with branding, fascism and incarceration? How can the humanities confront the problem of t...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 58:22
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With a national debate raging about the 2nd Amendment, we went to meet a man who epitomizes the right to bear arms: Dragonman. Born Mel Bernstein i...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 58:13
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Jon Meacham joins the program to discuss his new biography of George H.W. Bush, the 41st president who soared in popularity in the aftermath of the...

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


  • Added: Jan 13, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Crying in politics is not as rare as it once was -- President Obama shed a tear or two this week discussing school children victims of gun violence...

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  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Former Vice President Walter Mondale talks about his run for president in 1984, everything from choosing Geraldine Ferraro as the first woman on a ...

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


  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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In the last Political Junkie for 2015, Abby Livingston of the Texas Tribune reviews last Saturday's Democratic debate in New Hampshire, where Hilla...

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 4
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We're just two months away from Iowa and New Hampshire, which leads to the question: Why do we care so much about Iowa and New Hampshire? And how ...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 3
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With the specter of homegrown terrorism and gun violence in the headlines, and some (one?) presidential candidates said to be employing tactics tha...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 3
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If you think the planet is heating up, wait until you see what happens when President Obama and the Republicans clash over the policy proposals aft...

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 5
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Former Vice President Walter Mondale talks about his run for president in 1984, including his decision to choose Geraldine Ferraro as the first wom...

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


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Kathie Obradovich, a political columnist for the Des Moines Register was one of the panelists at the second Democratic presidential debate and she ...

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  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 5
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For all the talk about dynasties and a potential Bush vs. Clinton match-up in 2016, Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution has a new book about ...

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 5