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“OK Boomers” Get Back to Work
From: Mateo Schimpf
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While many Baby Boomers have already left the workforce behind, almost half are considering coming out of retirement in search of a new purpose in ...

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


  • Added: Oct 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Medical Apartheid and the COVID-19 vaccines (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The world is struggling to contain COVID-19, as variants continue to emerge in countries where the virus is spreading unchecked, killing thousands....

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
When Your Country Doesn’t Trust You (AAPI Heritage Month Story)
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we hear from US Congressman Andy Kim about how the power competition between China and the US creates fear and anxiety on the home...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Democracy in Peril + A Resurgent Russia
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we’re partnering with the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University to talk about the state of dem...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Feb 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Brexit: What Happens Now?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we talk with Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole and two political activists on opposite sides of the Brexit debate.

Bought by Classic107.3 and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
How White Supremacy Fueled the Attack on the Capitol
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, former FBI special agent Michael German explains why the bureau deprioritized the threat posed by white supremacists. Then, historian Ne...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Strongmen: From Mussolini to Trump
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat has spent her career warning about the stealth strategies authoritarian leaders use to gain power. In her new book, Strong...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Global Economy After COVID-19
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we revisit a conversation about the future of the global economy with James Manyika, Chairman and Director of the McKinsey ...

Bought by Classic107.3, WHRV, WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Anand Giridharadas: Are Elites Really Making the World a Better Place?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Anand Giridharadas, author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, compels us to take a deeper look at elite leaders, their i...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
We Have the Power to Stop World Hunger
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week we’re looking at how to solve food insecurity around the world. We’ll hear from nonprofit leaders working on the frontlines and a doctor ...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KWMR


  • Added: Dec 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Does The Perfect Healthcare System Exist?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel joins co-host Ray Suarez to compare different healthcare systems around the world. Then, producer Teresa Cotsirilos ...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
EP 17 Mr. Trump Treads on the One China Policy
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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Only days after announcing that the one China policy was no-good under a Trump Administration, U.S. President Donald Trump changed tack, stiffed Ta...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 04:56
EP 16 Anyone See an Adutl in the Foreign Policy Room?
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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If the Constitution is an “invitation to struggle” between the President and Congress over the making of foreign policy, today it could be describe...

  • Added: Feb 05, 2017
  • Length: 04:53
Is Mongolia's Kowtow To China The Future of East Asia?
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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Mongolia's religious preferences center around the Dalia Lama. China's don't. Mongolia invited the Dalia Lama to pay homage to his lineage, China s...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:49
EP 10 Your Drone Is My Drone
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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An underwater research drone was seized by China as an American crew was moving in to retrieve it. The episode threatens to increase tensions in a ...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
EP 9 Can You Have 2 Bulls In The China Shop
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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President-elect Donald Trump's telephone conversation with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-Wen, broke 4 decades of U.S./Taiwan diplomatic protocol, enr...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2016
  • Length: 04:48
EP 8 When Vermont's "Precision Valley" Changed The World
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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The tools, techniques, and the methods which make mass production possible were pioneered at the Robbins & Lawrence Armory in Windsor, Vermont. But...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2016
  • Length: 04:49
EP 7 No Industrial Revolution in China ??
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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Conventional Wisdom says the Industrial Revolution passed China by. But is this a true interpretation of history?

  • Added: Nov 28, 2016
  • Length: 04:47
EP 6 Australia lines up with China led trade pact !
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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American led US-China trade pact, TPP, dies, and the Chinese led FTAAP grabs US allies

  • Added: Nov 20, 2016
  • Length: 04:51
EP 5: Trump might be better than Obama re US/China relations
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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Might President Trump be better than President Obama in managing U.S. - China relations? A spirited discussion in the ongoing series, "Orient Espre...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2016
  • Length: 04:52
EP 4 Trump or Clinton, who will handle US-China better
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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America's East Asian allies are scampering to dance with China, wrecking US strategy towards china in the process. Will Mr. Trump or Mrs. Clinton b...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2016
  • Length: 04:20
Jonathan Katz, author of "The Big Truck That Went By"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Katz about his book, "The Big Truck that Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster."

  • Added: Jun 17, 2016
  • Length: 30:56
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending June 12, 2015
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Women's Walk for Peace Across Demilitarized Zone Advocates Peace Treaty Be...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending May 29, 2015
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Opponents Say Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Deal Will Impose Defact...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for the week ending May 8, 2015
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Saudi Airstrikes and Blockade Exacerbate Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis; As P...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 29, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1