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Michigan Case Which Used the ‘Independent State Legislature Theory’ to Challenge Voting Rights Ballot Questions is Thrown Out
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 11, 2024
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Christie Porter of Salt Lake Magazine on her recent article about dissent at BYU. Check out her story, The State of LGBTQ+ activists at BYU, online...
- Added: Jun 02, 2023
- Length: 13:50
Coronavirus concerns forced many universities to close their campuses this fall. The mix of fewer students on campus, canceled athletics, and onlin...
- Added: Jul 16, 2021
- Length: 04:12
Your Call: Media coverage of the resistance at Standing Rock & Trump's new national security advisor
From: KALWSeries: Your Call Media Roundtable
This week, we’ll discuss coverage of Donald Trump's new national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster. Who is McMaster? We’ll also talk about t...
- Added: Feb 24, 2017
- Length: 54:01
Are we addicted to the Internet? Is it even appropriate to use the language of addiction about smartphones and other digital devices?
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 24:30
Big data is revolutionizing health and medicine, from genomics to wearable technologies to precision health. But is our medical care system prepare...
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 26:51
Your normal, everyday digital footprints can reveal surprisingly intimate facts – like whether your parents are divorced, and whether you own a gun.
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 22:03
This show takes a look at issues within the foster care system in the U.S. from the high rate of teen pregnancy to the alarming use of psychiatric ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR
- Added: Jun 12, 2015
- Length: :59
- Purchases: 2
Imprisonment, oppressive laws, and harassment of journalists - these are just a few means of censorship around the world. The use of these repressi...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Our ideas about how the anatomical differences in male and female brains explain the behaviors of men and women may be based on bias rather than sc...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Sunnyvale, California doesn't have a history of violence, so why does the mayor want to make a safe city safer?
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 06:15
You’re driving your car down a street and as you pass, a camera takes a photo of your license plate. Who is taking the photo and what are they doin...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 17:42
- Purchases: 2
They may not have made it to the Superbowl- but the “Washington Football team” has gotten a lot of attention this season- not so much for their per...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Similar to prison guards, police unions advocacy for their members has helped perpetuate cycles of criminalization and incarceration that plague Am...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 09:17
Support, or opposition from a prison guard union can make or break a campaign for office. The most powerful of them all is the California Correcti...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 11:30
Police officers and prison guards hold tremendous political sway. Their advocacy for better pay, more power, and more jobs has been a major factor ...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Shrinking the world’s population is one way to curb global warming, according to some environmentalists. To make that happen, women need more contr...
- Added: Jun 12, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Gang injunctions are a controversial crime fighting tool that some people say should be illegal, and others say is a necessary last resort for comm...
- Added: Dec 06, 2011
- Length: 29:00
TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL and MICHELLE ALIMORADI explore the raging ethical dilemma and Constitutional questions around post-incarceration civil commitme...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Oct 06, 2011
- Length: 59:15
- Purchases: 1
TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL and MICHELLE ALIMORADI talk again with those who argue against this project, citing the EPA’s rejection of the company’s enviro...
- Added: Oct 06, 2011
- Length: 58:34
TTT'S ANDY DRISCOLL and CO-HOST MICHELLE ALIMORADI query these legislative luminaries about their reasons for this historic move: Former SPEAKER OF...
- Added: Oct 05, 2011
- Length: 58:51
When it comes to US policy toward Israel, there has been one major voice shaping the debate. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee-generally...
- Added: Aug 19, 2011
- Length: 07:12
The American consensus on Israel and Palestine is breaking down. And Jewish Americans are playing a major role. But it's not easy. On this edition:...
- Added: Aug 09, 2011
- Length: 29:00
We’ll hear excerpts from the Oscar-nominated movie Gasland, including stories from residents who say their drinking water catches on fire—one of th...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Mar 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Sasha Abramsky, a California-based journalist and author, explains why the recent measure to legalize marijuana in California, which polls showed m...
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 38:22
