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Capital is a giant, data-packed tome on income inequality covering three hundred years of history by the French economist Thomas Piketty. Is there ...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
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Taylor Branch discusses his trilogy of the Civil Rights Movement America in the King Years. [24:25]

Bought by KSFR and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 24:25
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Solitary Confinement, Credit: Flickr user CHeitz
Years of campaigning for basic human rights for people caught up in America's criminal justice system may finally be paying off. 2013 saw significa...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Before 2001, there was another 9/11. In 1973, a military coup backed by the United States, overthrew the Chilean government and ushered in seventee...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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After the Boston Marathon bombing, journalists scrambled to identify those responsible for the attack, and their motive. Rolling news and online m...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Alexander Portelli (left); Bobby Pickles (right)
Bobby speaks, on this “National Marijuana Day” (April 20, 2013), with Alexander Portelli, mayoral candidate for the city of Albany, NY. They discus...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 44:31
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A call to arms to protect business from the anti-capitalist rhetoric of the 1960s.

Bought by WRIR, Spokane Public Radio, WGBH Radio Boston, and WRPI


  • Added: Dec 04, 2012
  • Length: 53:29
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Akhil Reed Amar
Yale University Law & Political Science Professor Akhil Reed Amar says the electoral college discourages voting, lessens the power of the states, a...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: George McGovern
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama completely mixed up in a special "Election Shortcut". The first Shortcut was broadcast in November of 1972 in reaction...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 59:56
  • Purchases: 1
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New Sides of Old Friends.

Bought by KWMR, KHNS, KKRN, KPVL, KEOS and more


  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 8
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On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview author and political activist David George Ball about his book, A Marked Heart, and the historic day he...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2012
  • Length: 27:30
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Radio Curious discusses “Brothers on the Line” a film about the Reuther brothers who unionized the auto industry and galvanized the middle class. T...

  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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Author Glenn Greenwald talks about his book, ‘With Liberty and Justice for Some.’ Americans claim to live under the rule of law; that no one is abo...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Something Else, Credit: The Kinks
Dylan, Davies and other songwriters.

Bought by KWMR, KPVL, KKRN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KHNS and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: In Search Of The Lost Chord, Credit: Moody Blues
It starts with a Human Monkey.

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, KPVL, KHNS, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 6
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Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WSLR, WHFR, KUOW, KVNF and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:33
  • Purchases: 16
Caption: Richard Wolff, Credit: http://www.rdwolff.com/
An exclusive interview with economist Richard Wolff, who explains how failed ‘trickle down economics’ theories are being recycled under a different...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Today on Don't Cha Know we discuss a topic that is very much at the forefront these days. Funding for the arts in Minnesota. It's a panel discussio...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 01:07:25
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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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This week the conversation moves from Kabul to Paris, as we talk with John Mearsheimer, the foreign policy "realist" from the University of Chicago...

Bought by WMNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 07, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Rev. James Lawson Arrested in Nashville, 1960 , Credit: www.blackpast.com
An interview with James Lawson, the chief architect of the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, and confidant to Martin Luther King. Lawson touches on every...

  • Added: May 27, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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G.I., Boomer and X'rs discuss Partisanship

  • Added: Mar 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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Taking the bus to Rosario to give a lecture

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Nov 07, 2008
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Terry Aladjem of Harvard University discusses his new book that explores the psychology and philosophy of Vengence in America

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Jun 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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The East-German music scene had a pulsating underground

  • Added: May 15, 2008
  • Length: 30:43