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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...

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  • Added: May 13, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
20 Years in Afghanistan: Was it Worth it?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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US military forces have occupied Afghanistan for almost 20 years and now, President Biden says it’s time to end the war. But Afghanistan is still f...

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
The World Doesn’t Revolve Around You
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we look at what happens when you think you know what you’re doing and don’t listen to the people you are trying to help. Our guest...

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


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
From Nobel Peace Prize to Civil War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we talk with Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations Michelle Gavin about how this happened, Amnesty ...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
Why Farmers are Fighting in Modi's India
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we talk with experts and journalists about India’s new agricultural reforms, why farmers don’t like it, and how platforms like Fa...

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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...

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  • 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.

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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...

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  • 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 ...

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  • 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 ...

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  • Added: Nov 11, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
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What Happens When an Election is Disputed
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we’re taking a look at how the democratic process plays out around the world. What can we learn from countries like Belarus and Chile, w...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Thank you Bernie. Screw You, New York Times
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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The F-Word is features timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. The latest: "It is the essence of American liberalism to trash radical ...

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  • Added: Apr 10, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Willful Acts
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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We look at the question of whether addicts have free will, as it played out in a case in the Supreme Court in 1987, and the Massachusetts Supreme C...

  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 47:10
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
EP 15 Transpacific Partnership-----TRUMPED
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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Finally, after years of gestation and convoluted, secretive negotiations under President Obama, the Trans Pacific Partnership passed away in its sl...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2017
  • Length: 04:54
EP 13 Trump vs. Asia ?!
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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As President elect Trump orders China to cease "annexing" islands it claims as its own and cozies up to Taiwan, there seems now a real possibility ...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 04:50
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 11 Can a Dalai Lama reincarnate in St. Louis ?!
From: Sarwar Kashmeri
Series: Orient Espresso
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The Dalai Lama will not be invited to Mongolia again after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader's recent trip there angered China, which considers h...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2017
  • Length: 04:41
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