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This special broadcast from Aspen Public Radio was recorded live at the 2023 Aspen Psychedelic Symposium earlier this year. “Where do we go from he...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
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A lot had changed since Melvil Dewey came up with a classification system to organize all known and not-yet-known knowledge into a string of number...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 24:50
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dr. Fiona Hill, Credit: Provided by the Brookings Institution
In 2019, Dr. Fiona Hill testified in the first impeachment trial of former President Trump. Dr. Hill recently served as Deputy Assistant to the pre...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2021
  • Length: 07:22
Caption: Deerfield, 1963 , Credit: ART SHAY / @ART SHAY ARCHIVE, 2018
A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 14:55
Caption: Richard Cahan
In 1942, the government rounded up more than one hundred thousand Japanese living in the U.S. They were incarcerated for the duration of the war.

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: William W. Goldsmith
There is deep concern for the health of American cities. Frustration with inequality is spreading. Public schools are lagging behind expectation. I...

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Elections and political messaging are changing in the new media landscape. Campaigns are using big data to target voters with better precision, and...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2016
  • Length: 32:12
Caption: Laila & Aleks at a house show in May, 2013
This is a story of a white immigrant troublemaker from Eastern Europe, a black revolutionary musician from New York and how one of them saves the o...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 13:56
Caption: John Roderick
John Roderick is the singer and frontman of the band "The Long Winters" and a candidate for Seattle City Council (Position 8). He talks with hosts ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2015
  • Length: 39:14
Caption: Jaun Williams and Mr. Flowe in the press pool, Credit: UC at Denver
After the 1st Presidential Debate, held in Denver during Barack Obama's bid for re-election Mr. Flowe caught up with surrogates for both the Obama ...

  • Added: May 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:50
Caption: Victor Pickard
We are immersed in media. It’s all around us. Flooding our everyday lives with reading, viewing, listening, and interacting with the products we re...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: William Ostrander
In 2010, the US Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting political donations. That is, so long as the...

Bought by WFHB and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 27, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Atheists United of SLO, Credit: Atheists United of SLO
The Pismo Beach City Council, San Luis Obispo, California, opens its weekly meetings with a prayer. Now they’re being asked to stop.

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: 1999 US Postage Stamp, Credit: Istock photo
Recent controversies surroundings reproductive health issues have sparked outrage among across the country. From the halls of Congress, to Richmon...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
Caption: Jo Comerford, Credit: National Priorities Project
On Monday, February 13, President Obama sent to Congress the 2013 U.S. Defense budget the includes funding for a shift in strategic focus to the As...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
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Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin

  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Sharp-talking political economist Mark Blyth is back in the Glasgow pub, so we say, and he's expounding on the melt-down that's still melting down ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
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Contrarian historian Niall Ferguson says the US is an empire -- in denial! And that we'd better get our act together!!

  • Added: Mar 16, 2009
  • Length: 19:21
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It should be obvious by now, with election day nearing, that Barack Obama should be the overwhelming choice of working people.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2008
  • Length: 05:14
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Her fourth year in the competition, 'Imagine Amaya' says this piece is an about the world in 50 years - what kind of woman would you like? She is ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:05
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New, more productive security policy for grabs

  • Added: Jul 10, 2007
  • Length: 06:13
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Filmaker Michael Moore brings his health care documentary to California

  • Added: Jun 13, 2007
  • Length: 15:54
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Group Censored at "Freedom of Speech" Parade

  • Added: Oct 04, 2006
  • Length: 06:02
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The controversial Harvard Law professor, author and celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz talks about the doctrine of preemption, the Israeli-Hezbollah ...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, WNED Buffalo, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 15, 2006
  • Length: 57:20
  • Purchases: 4