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The Wonky Policy That’s Got Hospitals on High Alert
From: Tradeoffs
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Medicare could soon pay hospitals much less for common outpatient services like x-rays and checkups. This week, we explain an old policy gathering...

  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 17:51
2022 California Primaries by Faction & Tortilla with Gustavo Arellano: These Not So United States (CA Part 2)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: 2022 California Primaries by Faction & Tortilla with Gustavo Arellano: These Not So United States (CA Part 2), Credit: The Purple Principle
If California progressives were a tortilla brand, they’d be delicious but expensive and inaccessible. By contrast, establishment Democratic tortill...

  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 31:46
Mr. Duterte talks to God, and God said...
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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President Duterte of the Philippines traveled to Japan last week, he talked to God on the way back and the U.S. is as confused as ever about where ...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2016
  • Length: 04:50
Rice Bucket Challenge
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Shiva Shankar from Hyderabad gets his niece Vaishnavi from Pune to donate rice to a woman who works there
Sandip Roy investigates the latest social media challenge and finds out what all this 'Rice' is about.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Political Junkie 8-13-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Hillary Clinton's not known as someone who says whatever she’s thinking, certainly not when it has the potential to make headlines … or create wave...

Bought by KCCU Radio, KUER, WRKF, WXXI Rochester, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 5
Political Junkie 6-4-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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Political Junkie host Ken Rudin and Washington Post political reporter Aaron Blake talk Tuesday's primary results in Mississippi, California, and N...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF, and KUER


  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 4
Political Junkie 5-21-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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The big primaries of the week were the Senate contests in Kentucky and Georgia. Al Cross of the Louisville Courier Journal talks about the Bluegra...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF, KUER, and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 5
Political Junkie 5-14-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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It's going to be a long primary season. So maybe we should decide right now that the strength and influence of the Tea Party should not be determi...

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


  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 5
Political Junkie 5-7-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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At long last, the 2014 primaries have arrived, in earnest. Judging by the results in Ohio and North Carolina, it was a great week for the GOP estab...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUER, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF and more


  • Added: May 08, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 6
Political Junkie 4-30-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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So how do you run your campaign in 2014 if you're a Democrat and your president's job approval numbers are not so good? That's the question host K...

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


  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 6
Political Junkie 1-29-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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The State of the Union is... strong. And so is this week's Political Junkie! Former Clinton speechwriter Paul Glastris joins us with an assessmen...

Bought by WRKF and WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Jan 29, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 2
Web Privacy 101: Entering the Deep Web
From: Liz Myers
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In Show 60, Air Occupy interviews Alan Pearce about ways that journalists, activists, and anyone who is interested in privacy on the web about simp...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2013
  • Length: 54:37