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May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Month, was designated in 1992 by President George H. W. Bush to pay tribute to immigr...
- Added: May 23, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Taxes are necessary for a civilized society, and most ordinary people pay their fair share. But there's one group that pays nothing at all, while ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Dr. Mindy Romero, founder of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California, talks with Jess about current election sc...
- Added: Feb 06, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Immigration journalist Bekah McNeel speaks on the subtleties of this controversial topic.
- Added: Dec 28, 2023
- Length: 58:02
- Purchases: 3
Thanksgiving is coming up – and once again turkey will be the star of the show. But there’s always an issue with side dishes. No worries, a busines...
- Added: Nov 16, 2023
- Length: 02:30
Science fictions are widely held dangerous beliefs that are not supported by science. Jess explores a few of these in anticipation of the continued...
- Added: Oct 03, 2023
- Length: 29:00
If you're getting nervous these days about going to the grocery or taking your kid to the ballpark for fear of getting shot, rest easy. Republicans...
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 03:00
How the military is preparing space for the next world war.
- Added: Sep 11, 2023
- Length: 28:45
- Purchases: 2
Labor Day has been a national holiday since 1894, when President Grover Cleveland signed the law making the first Monday in September a day off for...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 03:00
Blue light from device screens can upset your body's internal clock with dangerous consequences.
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 28:51
When you drink from a plastic bottle, you're getting much more than you think. An array of toxic chemicals is going down your throat.
- Added: Jul 31, 2023
- Length: 28:11
Jess speaks with Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird about one of Earth's most influential humans and his scientific and political legacies.
- Added: Jul 25, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Capitalism is standing in the way of progress on our most critical environmental issue.
- Added: Jul 03, 2023
- Length: 57:30
- Purchases: 3
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch was just the beginning for author and photographer Erica Cirino.
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 28:25
Jess investigates what connects giant salamanders, community organizing, and fracking via a conversation with journalist Annie Roth and biologist J...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 58:00
The U.S. is far behind other developed countries when it comes to support for motherhood. Most mothers are in the paid workforce, and we need new ...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 02:30
HOUR ONE: 'As Read By The Author' - One of the most fun things we get to do is bring the soundscape of a novel to life — cue the monsters, the stor...
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 01:59:01
After the news of the week, former Pro Publica food reporter Helena Evich talks about the failure of the FDA to handle food safety, the controversy...
- Added: Jan 15, 2023
- Length: 28:15
"MacArthur 'genius award'winning landscape designer Kate Orff believes that gray infrastructure, like levees and flood gates and sea walls, can on...
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 03:30
From: World Footprints LLC
World Footprints talks race-baiting, travel, media and music with NPR TV critic Eric Deggans.
- Added: Oct 07, 2020
- Length: 40:26
The biggest tech companies generate enormous wealth and power by harvesting information about people. It’s called surveillance capitalism. This epi...
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 29:00
This week we are talking about ocean calm and the ways that we are affected in mind, body and spirit by a peaceful ocean. In this episode we tell t...
- Added: Jun 04, 2019
- Length: 04:51
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
What happens when the governing trust or estate is embroiled in litigation with beneficiaries that are children or minors? Learn more about Guardia...
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 12:05
The GoFundMe Revolution: What Happens Once the Money Has Been Raised? Individual fundraising has gone digital and the funds raised are exponentiall...
- Added: Aug 16, 2018
- Length: 12:50