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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
No matter what you eat, it probably has tiny bits of plastic in it. Research scientists Madeleine Milne joins Patti and Doug for a lively discussion.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 04, 2024
- Length: 57:38
- Purchases: 1
October 7 didn’t happen in a vacuum. As Israel retaliates, with customary super-violence, reducing little Gaza to rubble, in the occupied West Bank...
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 59:44
Commemorating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a nuclear scientist remembers. A historian paints a different picture. And, the Pacific...
- Added: Aug 04, 2023
- Length: 59:23
Whether you're a Republican, Democrat, Independent, Something Else or Nothing at all, you've got to admit the Mexican border is a colossal mess. Bu...
- Added: May 19, 2023
- Length: 03:01
We feature a lecture by Mike Davis about his book Planet of Slums, which investigates the increasing inequality of the urban world. According to th...
- Added: Apr 18, 2023
- Length: 58:00
Our guests Indigenous Activists SunRose IronShell and Manape LaMere speak on the history and impact of the Indian Boarding Schools, generational tr...
- Added: Aug 21, 2022
- Length: 58:00
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s governing style isn’t just toxic—it’s incompetent. We talk with Ross Barkan about his book, The Prince: Andrew Cuomo, The C...
- Added: Aug 04, 2021
- Length: 59:00
A very special program comparing US Presidents with special guest the late Helen Thomas of UPI. Others on the panel discuss many aspects comparing ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2021
- Length: 24:59
Since 1972, study after study has warned we are in overshoot – the sum total of human activity is too much for the Earth’s ecosystems to bear. Welc...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Jul 12, 2020
- Length: 51:49
- Purchases: 1
Bob Kustra interviews Peter Bergen about his book "Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos"
- Added: Mar 06, 2020
- Length: 30:01
The path to political victory should be simple: accrue more points that your opponent, and you will win. Not so fast. U.S. elections aren’t nearly ...
- Added: Jun 11, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
“Why School? International Perspectives on Education and Social Transformation” examines education in a global context, both as a reflection of soc...
- Added: May 07, 2019
- Length: 31:17
As climate disinformation campaigns ramped up in the 1990s, oil companies and their PR firms exploited weaknesses in the U.S. media system and prop...
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 17:38
It's the 1970s and Exxon Research and Development wants to be the "Bell Labs of Energy."
- Added: Jan 21, 2019
- Length: 19:18
WorldCanvass begins its tenth season with "The Politics and Impact of Immigration.” Arguments over reasonable and desirable immigration legislation...
- Added: Oct 16, 2018
- Length: 41:31
Radio Curious visits with genocide scholar Sam Totten for an update on the ongoing war and genocide in the African countries of Sudan and South Sudan.
- Added: Jul 18, 2018
- Length: 29:00
Leading experts in climate science and environmental research join WorldCanvass host Joan Kjaer to discuss the most pressing concerns facing Iowa...
Bought by KZUM
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 28:38
- Purchases: 1
Radio Curious discusses solitary confinement and its physical and mental health impacts on prison inmates with Dr. Terry Allen Kupers, a forensic p...
Bought by KVMR
- Added: Feb 14, 2018
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Griftopia by Matt Tiaibi
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 02:18
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco about the roots of fascism in Europe.
- Added: Jan 12, 2017
- Length: 03:14
There’s an old saying “be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.” That applies in spades to Republicans who have voted over 50 ...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jun 19, 2015
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
The U.S. Senate convened on January 6th, with 13 new members. Some people think 13 is a lucky number, and some say the opposite. When it comes to ...
- Added: Jan 08, 2015
- Length: 02:30
For the past eight years, one weekend in late summer brings first responders from across the country and around the world -- firemen, medics, SWAT ...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Dec 28, 2014
- Length: 09:07
- Purchases: 1
Why torture doesn't work. How to trick the enemy into revealing secrets. Lessons from the Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe. The British Poli...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and WRPI
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 27:31
- Purchases: 2
