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Last Sunday, Italians voted for the most right-wing government since Benito Mussolini. The controversial politician leading the winning coalition, ...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:48
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It’s an event that Russians, Ukrainians and the rest of the world have been thinking about, but one that many people didn’t think would actually ha...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 22:48
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More than a week into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has escalated his military offensive. Ukrainian President V...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 45:07
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Even as President Joe Biden has emphasized that the U.S. and NATO do not want to engage with Russia militarily, Congress has pushed the administrat...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 36:08
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Never underestimate the power of a poem.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Joseph Narendra Muhammad, Credit: Sandip Roy
There are protests in many cities all over India with signs saying No NPR.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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Many things divide a country, but it’s the overlooked, personal slights, that hurt the most.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Aatish Taseer, Credit: Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet
The Indian elections are in full swing, and if one party has fallen back on a politics of revenge and polarization to win the election. And the old...

  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Michael Scharf
At the United Nations last year, President Trump labelled North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Venezuela “rogue States.” Since then, the Trump Administrat...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Michael Scharf
The United States and North Korea — two countries that fought a brutal war and never made peace. Last March, the two countries agreed to hold a hi...

  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 59:24
Caption: Michael Scharf
On Wednesday, October 11, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Jesner v. Arab Bank, a case that will determine if corporations can be sue...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:04
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Chickens cannot fly. That’s according to Air India, India’s national airline. It has just announced that it’s going to stop serving non-vegetaria...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
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India is one of the world’s biggest exporters of beef, even though much of India does not eat beef. New laws concerning animal welfare were seen a...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Paul Beatty at the Kolkata Literary Meet , Credit: Kolkata Literary Meet
If the polls had been right and Hillary Clinton had won someone could have written a great American satire of an America where Donald Trump wins. B...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 19, 2017
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Today we welcome to our studio Aurelian Craiutu, author of the recent book The Faces of Moderation. We’ll focus primarily on the art of “trimming” ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:07
Caption: Michael Scharf
Don't miss the latest "Talking Foreign Policy," the radio program hosted by Case Western Reserve University School of Law Dean Michael Scharf on Cl...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
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Today our guest, Thea Riofrancos, suggests populism is the not the problem, as so many in the “center” (left and right) fear, but the answer to the...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: Indian Flag, Credit: Flicker user Yarat
When you are proud of your country, pride about its national symbols follows naturally. The Indian Court in its wisdom has flipped that equation pr...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Michael Scharf
A panel of international experts from London, Washington, and Cleveland -- including the Director of the International Bar Association, an Internat...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Michael Scharf
Combatting ISIS, relations with China, and immigration policy have emerged as major issues in the 2016 Presidential Primaries. In this broadcast o...

Bought by WRGY, WLRN, KTSW 89.9, and WEZU


  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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When Hardik Patel got 600,000 people to show up at a rally in Ahmedabadn in his native Gujarat everyone sat up and noticed. But his reservation mo...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 01, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Narendra Modi
Narenda Modi is the 15th Prime Minister of India, and the first PM born after Independence.

  • Added: May 27, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
Caption: Bishop Christopher Senyonjo, founder of St. Paul's Reconciliation and Justice Center, Credit: Julie Caine
Reported by NPR's Jason DeRose, May 2014. Earlier this year the president of Uganda signed into law an Anti-Homosexuality Bill. It makes being gay...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:44
  • Purchases: 1
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What a popular new hand gesture in France can tell us about the line between offensive and racist.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:01
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What recently discovered personal letters from a senior Nazi can tell us about the uncomfortably familiar face of evil.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:01