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This Asian American Life
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How are Asian-Americans fighting back against accusations of divided loyalties and the sense of “perpetual foreignness”?

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Three Health Policy Stories to Watch in 2023
From: Tradeoffs
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A congressional ban on removing anyone from Medicaid will expire early next year. What will happen to people who lose their coverage, and how are s...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 18:50
10: Refugee Chefs: Empowering and Educating Through Food, 07/14/22
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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In this episode, we meet refugee chefs who now call the United States their home. In Milwaukee, Tables Across Borders brings the community together...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KRPS, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 14, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
New York's Hunter College is falling apart
From: Julian Abraham
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Students at CUNY's Hunter College in New York City are complaining about mice running the halls, broken windows, and leaky ceillings. But, the scho...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:43
Peter Lee on Obamacare, Covered California and Where We Go Next With Healthcare
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Peter Lee, outgoing Executive Director of Covered California, Credit: Photo used with the permission of Covered California
This week, we speak with Peter Lee who has led Covered California, the state’s Affordable Care Act health benefit exchange, for a decade. As he pre...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 18:08
Plessy v Ferguson & Brown v Board of Education
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101: Civil Rights
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The Supreme Court case that said racial segregation was constitutional, and the landmark decision that, decades later, overturned it.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, WYAP, WCMU Michigan, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 51:31
  • Purchases: 11
10: Refugee Chefs: Empowering and Educating Through Food, 7/8/21
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Eat Your Heartland Out
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In this episode, we meet refugee chefs who now call the United States their home. In Milwaukee, Tables Across Borders brings the community together...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 08, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
Vaccines Prevent Viruses; What Combats COVID Vax Skepticism? An Interview with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of VCU’s Health & Media Lab
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Vaccines Prevent Viruses; What Combats COVID Vax Skepticism? An Interview with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of VCU’s Health & Media Lab
In this episode, the Purple Principle speaks with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of the Media and Health Lab at Virginia Commonwealth University, on ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KSFR, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: May 18, 2021
  • Length: 31:52
  • Purchases: 3
Portrait of the Arsonist As Young Congressman: Historian Julian Zelizer (Burning Down the House) on the inflammatory influence of Newt Gingrich
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Episode 1: Portrait of the Arsonist as a Young Congressman
Does history create vulnerabilities that any number of populist politicians could seize upon? Or do exceptional populists create those opportunitie...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 34:19
2020 Polling in Hindsight: Someone Please Answer the Phone
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Episode 21: Natalie Jackson and Brian Schaffner
How was so much polling inaccuracy possible again in 2020 at nearly all levels? Episode 21 of the Purple Principle, “2020 Polling in Hindsight: Som...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2021
  • Length: 35:08
Democracy & Elections Under Stress: A Discussion with Trevor Potter of the Campaign Legal Center
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Democracy & Elections Under Stress: A Discussion with Trevor Potter of the Campaign Legal Center
The 2020 election has revealed the partisan state of American politics and society like no other event in recent history. How did we get to this po...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2020
  • Length: 41:13
A Discussion with Non-partisan Candidate for Congress Krucoff: David vs. the Washington D.C. Voting Goliath
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
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Independent candidate David Krucoff is running for the non-voting D.C. Congress position without much hope of unseating incumbent Democrat Eleanor ...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2020
  • Length: 18:02
IE: Inside Europe, 3/23/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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On today’s program: British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson explains why London thinks Russia is responsible for the nerve agent attack on a forme...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
Longing for a Poem, Getting MPBN Numbers Instead
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
I hope you’re in the mood for some numbers. Or at least I hope you’re not in the mood for a poem. In Maine, the daily poem we all could feast on fo...

  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 07:35
Dr. Larry Chu, Founder and Executive Director of Stanford Medicine X
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Larry Chu, anesthesiologist and Professor at the Stanford School of Medicine whe...

Bought by WJCU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 3
http://kalw.org/post/evolution-affordable-housing
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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To make sense of this new era in low-income housing in San Francisco, we’re going to travel back in time and follow the story as it unfolds into th...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 28, 2014
  • Length: 10:01
  • Purchases: 1
Lynn Quincy, Sr. Health Policy Analyst for Consumers Union
From: CHC Radio
Series: Conversations on Health Care
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She talks about her recent report on design architecture for state-by-state insurance exchanges being set up under the Affordable Care Act - and ho...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2012
  • Length: 24:59
Who will be displaced in the new healthcare economy?
From: KALW
Caption: California Pacific Medical Center is negotiating with San Francisco to build a new hospital at Van Ness and Geary.
May 11 marked the two-month anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake. The 9.0 quake set off a devastating tsunami, taking the lives of more t...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 10:08
PG&E reveals missed opportunities at review hearing
From: KALW
Caption: A police officer monitors a resident checkpoint in San Bruno after the gas line explosion., Credit: Flickr photo by Thomas Hawk
Energy giant PG&E has been under close scrutiny since its gas pipeline burst in San Bruno last September, killing eight people and leveling 37 home...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2011
  • Length: 05:50
Race Manners with Bruce A. Jacobs Part 1
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Bruce A. Jacobs, Credit: www.aliasbruce.typepad.com
Today on a very special Culture Clique we cover a topic that some people approach timidly: Race Manners. We visit with Bruce A. Jacobs, author of R...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 23, 2010
  • Length: 39:24
  • Purchases: 1
Sustainability
From: 90.1 WFYI Public Radio
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Hosted by Barbara Bogaev, and produced by Richard Paul, Sustainability looks at what is being done to address our energy needs and environmental c...

Bought by WFHB, WNIJ, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUOW, KGNU Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 59:08
  • Purchases: 27