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Caption: Terry Tempest Williams
In her writing and her life, Terry Tempest Williams reflects an expression of something better and higher in each of us. Here she wrestles with th...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
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A short form version of the non-narrated ARRVLS feature "Orthodox". What happens when your religious faith and sexual identity directly contradic...

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2016
  • Length: 23:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kathryn Smith
The Glass Ceiling: That’s a term that’s been bandied about for some time. Those women who reach the top of their field whether it’s in business or ...

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  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Discover the poetic variety of Missouri in this special program featuring readings from the Midwest Poets Series by three very different Missouri p...

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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First hand accounts from women in prison

  • Added: Sep 11, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:03
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On Labor Day, let’s consider the Rodney Dangerfield theory of labor. Coined after the now-deceased comedian, this theory along with a winner-take-a...

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2016
  • Length: 06:20
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Where along the bifurcated Red-Blue conservative-liberal political continuum does one place Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump? Is h...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2016
  • Length: 05:27
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A new era began on September 11, 2001 - one marked by an unending War on Terror, dragnet surveillance, and attacks on people perceived to be Muslim...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Castles in the sky and in the sand, Bahrain, Credit: Hebah Fisher
It's 2011, and Bahrain is a divided society.

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 42:13
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Caption: Dan Barry
In the winter of 2009, a social worker with the Iowa Department of Human Services, received an anonymous tip: A couple dozen disabled men were liv...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Khizr Khan at the DNC Convention
Khizr Khan did something few have been able to do in this bitter and vulgar presidential election.

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Since 2014 the department of justice and President Obama have been working to right the wrongs of the war on drugs. Through Clemency, Obama has com...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 15:28
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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
Caption: Anthony Merkerson (left) and Charles Jones
Two fathers of children on the autistic spectrum talk about the concerns they have for their sons — two young black men growing up with autism.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2016
  • Length: 02:57
Caption: Mark Gerzon
A commentary in a series of commentaries looking at moving beyond partisanship.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 04:03
Caption: James Hoggan
James Hoggan, author of I’m Right and You’re An Idiot : The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up, Chair of the David Suzuki Found...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:03
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That most basic of human gestures of intimacy, a kiss, can still be deadly.

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
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Michael Goldfarb tells the story of how the God Intoxicated Man, Benedict Spinoza, seeded the Englightenment and became the philosopher for today.

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  • Added: May 23, 2016
  • Length: 53:38
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Caption: Brad Friedman
Brad Friedman of The BradBlog and The Bradcast radio show joins us again to help make sense of these primary elections and electoral politics in th...

  • Added: May 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:45
Caption: Norman J. Ornstein
Congress is at a standstill. They have been for several years. In 2010 political insiders Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein began searching for the c...

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  • Added: May 11, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
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Caption: Community March Against Islamophobia December 13, 2015, Credit: Under CC Misha Voloaca
On this edition of Making Contact we’ll meet people confronting racist depictions of Muslims and Arabs in pop culture and politics; and two young w...

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  • Added: Apr 23, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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Caption: Jim Collins
Unspun honors local environmental advocates, Peggy Rebol and Dr. Jim Collins, as we look at our relationships with Mother Earth and current environ...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
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Caption: Viridiana Hernández lobbying at the Arizona State Legislature against the bill that would ban cities from creating their own city ID if that is extended to undocumented immigrants., Credit: Valeria Fernández
This edition of Making Contact is Part I of our special series examining how immigrants are responding and participating in elections and politics ...

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  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
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My guest in this hour is James Scott whose writing is a trek through the history of state-making and resistance to being shackled to governance. Hi...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 59:02
Caption: Virigina State Colony for the Feebleminded
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 22:29
  • Purchases: 1