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How One Alzheimer’s Drug Is Changing the U.S. Drug Approval Conversation
From: Tradeoffs
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After Medicare’s decision to restrict coverage of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm, we look at how this one drug has forced the natio...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2022
  • Length: 22:11
Filibuster or Bust
From: Jennifer Bassett
Series: Talking Feds
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Senator Whitehouse, Bill Kristol, and Jennifer Rubin, join Harry to break down the most important and challenging topics on the Senate’s plate, inc...

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 50:29
  • Purchases: 1
Redefining Latino Identity
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Join co-host Ray Suarez and VICE's Paola Ramos for a conversation on how communities from New York to Texas and California are defining the controv...

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
What Biden Can Do to Secure Our Climate Future
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we discuss climate policy with former California Governor Jerry Brown, oceanographer Sylvia Earle and former Colombian pres...

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Lure of Authoritarianism + Biden’s Foreign Policy
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this episode, we’re looking at the Biden Administration’s foreign policy challenges and how Trump compares to past authoritarian leaders.

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Is Trump Setting Too Many Fires for Biden to Put Out?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, career diplomat Nicholas Burns talks with Ray Suarez about the Trump Administration’s recent maneuvers abroad and how to rebuild U...

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Biggest Threat to the US is Already Inside the Border
From: Mateo Schimpf
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According to the Department of Homeland Security, white supremacists pose the deadliest terror threat to the United States, and a growing number of...

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  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Future of US Global Leadership
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we consider different visions of what US foreign policy can look like and how the upcoming election will determine that path. We t...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
A Big Deal, Not a Peace Deal
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This month, Israel signed deals with two Gulf States on the White House South Lawn. These are the first Arab-Israel agreements in 25 years, known a...

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Facing Our Climate Future
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we’re launching an ongoing series about our climate future. We'll hear from activists and political leaders who discussed climate resili...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Will Democratic Capitalism Survive?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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As inequality rises around the world, citizens are losing faith in the free market democracy that emerged over the 20th century. Protests from the ...

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Coronavirus and Sub-Saharan Africa
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we’re looking at Uganda and Rwanda, two countries who have fought pandemics before and were ready for this one. Both countries have lost...

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  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
How Developing Nations Are Fighting COVID-19...And Winning
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Even with its close proximity to China, where the pandemic started, parts of Southeast Asia have managed to control the coronavirus far better than...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we revisit and update a program we recorded in January about the origins of El Salvador’s bloody gang war with journalist William ...

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fixing Law Enforcement from Within + Policing After Apartheid
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Black Lives Matter might be the largest social movement in American history. In the first half of the episode, we hear from Jinho “The Piper” Ferre...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
Why Hong Kong is Protesting Again
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Protesters are back in the streets in Hong Kong to fight against a new security law that tightens the Chinese government’s grip over the city. On ...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Global Economy After COVID-19
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we tackle these big issues and examine our new digital economy with James Manyika, Chairman and Director of the McKinsey Gl...

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  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Struggle To Test and Trace COVID-19
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we take a closer look at contact tracing in California and what it might look like in the future. We hear from San Francisc...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Fiona Hill and Putin’s People
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, Fiona Hill, who was a top Russia advisor under three presidents, talks with KQED’s Mina Kim about how Vladimir Putin uses o...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Fingerprints, Ballistics & Bite Marks Aren't Indisputable: The Case Against Failed Forensic Science
From: Megan Harris
Series: Criminal Injustice
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions declined to renew the National Commission on Forensic Science in April, effectively ending federal efforts to standa...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:19
Meet One Federal Judge Who Quit The Bench Over Mandatory Minimums
From: Megan Harris
Series: Criminal Injustice
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In May, Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a 2013 memo written by his predecessor, Eric Holder, that told prosecutors not only will they abid...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:14
Populism Against the Center
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today our guest, Thea Riofrancos, suggests populism is the not the problem, as so many in the “center” (left and right) fear, but the answer to the...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
Racist Revolutionaries: The Alt-Right Uprising?
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show today features three segments, produced and recorded by journalist and WFHB volunteer Dan Young, which examine what has been labeled the “...

  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:24
Free the Internet (in India)
From: KALW
Caption: Shreya Singhal
The Internet just became freer in India thanks to a young woman who decided to do something about it instead of just complaining.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
Modi and Nehru
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Narendra Modi
Narenda Modi is the 15th Prime Minister of India, and the first PM born after Independence.

  • Added: May 27, 2014
  • Length: 04:30