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Jehmu Greene on Good Citizen
From: Madison Brown
Series: Good Citizen with Ted Roosevelt V
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Jehmu Greene encourages us to listen intentionally and have uncomfortable conversations. She was a progressive Political Analyst at FOX News for ov...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2024
  • Length: 30:56
Yale Panel: An Emotionally Intelligent Approach to Understanding and Managing Polarization
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
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A Council on Academic Freedom launched at Harvard March 2023 and has some similar goals to a panel I helped create with Yale President Peter Salove...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 35:37
BIPOC Media Covered the Elections Differently
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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When it came to the midterms, mainstream white pundits got a lot wrong that local, Black, Brown and BIPOC media got right, and they're still missin...

Bought by KWMR, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK and more


  • Added: Nov 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
D.A. Larry Krasner Facing Impeachment: Criminal Justice Reform in the Crosshairs
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can a predominantly white state legislature overturn the votes of a predominantly Black city? Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s District Attorney was e...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Going For Broke, Part One: Change Of Address
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
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In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke," all about the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Many of us would consider it a basic...

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WGBH Radio Boston, WKSU, WGUC/ WVXU, Iowa Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 12
691: Living With Loneliness / 692: More Than Just A Game, 5/21/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Living With Loneliness" - In countries all over the world, rates of loneliness are skyrocketing. How did it become a condition of modern...

  • Added: May 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:00
States Newsroom: A Novel Approach To State-Level News
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Chris Fitzsimon
There are forces in the US that like to selectively bring up “states rights” from time to time – with the impending decision stripping the federal ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Like Family, Like Nation: A Braver Angel Mediates Polarization at Home & Nationwide
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Like Family, Like Nation: A Braver Angel Mediates Polarization at Home & Nationwide, Credit: The Purple Principle
Mónica Guzmán of Braver Angels is a fascinating conversationalist who knows how to stop a conversation, particularly among blue-leaning Seattle fri...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:15
World in Progress 02/24/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: For many coca Farmers in Colombia, it is far from simple to stop producing coca for drugs. Why protecting wildlife clashes...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Secret IRS Files
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Jesse Eisinger, Credit: ProPublica
According to sociologists, one of the primary keys for predicting societal unrest is inequality. The deeper the monetary divide the higher the like...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Ocean Plastics
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Seth Blaustein
Massive wildfires, flooding and natural disasters: It’s obvious to most observers now that climate change is no hoax. But, most of us feel that the...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
IE: Inside Europe, 7/9/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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This week on the show: European leaders condemn the shooting of a Dutch journalist as as attack on democratic values. Spain moves to tighten its l...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter T. Coleman
Once a segment of the population becomes miserable, stabilization begins. That shouldn’t be a goal in American politics, but it certainly seems lik...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 02/25/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Defying censorship - Censorship comes in many forms. You might have heard that Facebook blocked news coverage in Austra...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
555: Hope: How Do We Make It? / 556: Filtering Free Speech, 1/30/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Caption: Hope (A Three Part Series)
HOUR ONE: "Hope: How Do We Make It?" - We continue our three part series on hope. Can you create it through activism, faith, music or some other ac...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:58
Myths Surrounding COVID-19
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Helen Lee Bouygues
Americans are in a strange and unusual news cycle. For example, someone can state that hydroxychloroquine is a potential cure for COVID-19. Fox New...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
473: Living In Skin / 474: Making Waves (Live), 4/18/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Living In Skin" - All over America, people have stopped touching faces and hugging friends. This hour, explore the inner life of your sk...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
In Defense of Public Service
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Cedric Alexander
The folks who do the behind-the-scenes work that keeps our country running have been frequently disparaged by the Trump administration. The “Deep S...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 24, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Combating Fake News
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Helen Lee Bouygues
There are more incentives to spread fake information than not. Money can play a big factor, but there’s also that immature need to feel that you ca...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Vote for Us
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Joshua A. Douglas
Imagine an election in the future that boasted turnout at record levels. Better access to voter registration and polling places. District lines and...

Bought by KRZA and KCBX


  • Added: May 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Building Power Through Media: Radio Kingston and DeRay Mckesson
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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This week, we re-visit radio Kingston, a station connecting communities and lifting up voices. Than joining Laura in studio, activist DeRay Mckesso...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Nov 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Learning From a Master
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Richard J. Berstein
She didn’t like being called a philosopher, but that is how she’s recognized. And, as far as philosophy professor Richard J. Bernstein is concerned...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Hell Is Other People
From: Popula
Series: Radio Sermon with Brother Layne
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The first will be last.

  • Added: Jul 18, 2018
  • Length: 05:00
281: Beyond The Echo Chamber / 282: Getting Jazzed, 6/16/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Echo Chamber" - Conservative pundit Charlie Sykes criticized Donald Trump, becoming a left-wing darling. How'd that happen? Welcome ...

  • Added: Jun 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:59
Our Search for Belonging
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Howard Ross
It wasn’t that long ago political pundits were expressing concern that our politics were becoming too centrist … too middle of the road.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1