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American religions like sports, the arts, corporate life and house-hold pets - leave us with a goopy kind of gradualism. Since the Earth's crisis ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Host Martha Burk
A new group is mobilizing Moms across the country, hoping to change the way schools teach and operate, and they've got some high profile support. W...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Memorial Day is when we honor those who died while serving in the armed forces. It dates from 1866, when women decorated graves from both sides of ...

  • Added: May 25, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
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Degan Ali, a Somali-American who heads the Nairobi based NGO ADESO, talks about the future of aid with Eileen O'Connor, Senior Vice President of th...

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


  • Added: Aug 05, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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In this week’s episode, we talk about the tenuous state of US-Iran relations. Just who is the newly elected president of Iran -- and will the Iran ...

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


  • Added: Jul 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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"Could Donald Trump be charged with a crime for knowingly exposing others to an infectious disease? He could if that disease was hepatitis. If th...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The gender pay gap reared its ugly head again this month, with a massive study released by the website PayScale. Almost one and half million worke...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Host Martha Burk
It was down to the wire before a decision was made to include Carly Fiorina, the only woman in the race, in this week’s Republican presidential deb...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Host Martha Burk
First of five broadcasts on what's at stake for women in the upcoming elections. Today's topic: Some candidates are promising to repeal Obamacare ...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one half minute commentary on the backlash against the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision.

  • Added: Aug 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one-half minute commentary on the 1964 Civil Rights Act and its effect on women over the next 50 years.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, Credit: Sandip Roy
Amethi is the pocket borough of India’s most powerful family, the Gandhi's. This time it’s different.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 06, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Host Martha Burk
President Obama wants the minimum wage raised to $10.10 an hour. Conservatives claim it will destroy entry level jobs for new workers. They're wro...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
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It's been forty-one years since the landmark Roe V. Wade decision legalized abortion in the U.S. But foes have never stopped in their quest to ove...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Chicken is big business in the U.S. During National Chicken Month, the industry gives us ways to celebrate -- by eating more chicken of course. Bu...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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Two and one half minute commentary from series host Martha Burk on the House abortion ban vote and women.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu addressed The National Press Club on Thursday, August 19th at a Luncheon featuring Gulf Coast shrimp, Credit: Terry Hill
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu spoke at a National Press Club Luncheon on Thursday August 19th in Washington, D.C. Noting the 5 year anniversary...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2010
  • Length: 54:00
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Should the opinion of the world be important in American elections? This is a crucial question in applied ethics as we choose a President.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Angelica Borrero shows the importance of Mark J Penn and Micro-Trends

  • Added: Dec 21, 2007
  • Length: 05:09
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Former president of Ireland and UN Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson argues that globalization gives us a great opportunity -- and respon...

Bought by WCOM, WGVU, WUAL, WYSO, KPCC and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2005
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 6
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A Washington Post journalist examines the health care issue.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 23, 2004
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 1