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The Eurasia Group identified ten top global risks for business this year, which should be understood not just as political and economic, but also a...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Is climate change a common public burden, or should individuals make their own choices? Globally do modernized countries have an obligation to deve...

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Are we responsible for the well-being of children around the globe, millions of whom die every year from preventable causes? Or does charity begin ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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In a difficult and protracted war democracies may accept a draw due to a lack of public support. If you were caught between bowing to public opinio...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Within society there seems to be a general public disdain for excess and a private commitment to excess. Should there be formal or informal standar...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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What is the U.S. role in the world? There are two extremes. Being an example, or employing forceful U.S. engagement and being a moral champion. Nei...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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Private contractors bring important skills to tasks outside the capability or mission of military personnel, but they are not accountable to the go...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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When balancing life's complex tensions, how do you know when you've crossed a line?

  • Added: Mar 25, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
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When war is a foreign insurgency, balancing human risks and possibility of success is a fundamental ethical dilemma for leaders. What do you think ...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 02:00
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When choosing Nobel Peace Prize winners, should the Nobel Committee think of the future, using the Nobel's prestige to encourage peace-making? Or s...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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By 2050 some estimate that climate change will displace 150 million people, but the displaced won't qualify as refugees under international law. Wh...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Should cultural treasures, acquired under dubious circumstances, be returned to their places of origin?

  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Can we regulate international space like the oceans? Pollution and illegal or unregulated fishing plague international waters. How can the problem ...

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  • Added: Nov 13, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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From the Sudan Radio Radio Project: a look at Darfur activism in the Sudanese community of Philadelphia.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2009
  • Length: 05:57
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Who pays to stop global warming? How to allocate emissions allowances? If people are entitled to an equal share of the world's resources, should na...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Do states have a responsibility to protect the planet? If so, who would decide when environmental protection is a legitimate reason to interfere in...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Do immigrants help or hurt America? Closed borders cut off the world's best and brightest, while open borders may invite the world's desperate, cri...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Should we observe Morgenthau's principles--avoid the crusading spirit and heed others' perspectives--or is promoting democracy and taking a forcefu...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Are ethics primary questions that precede and surround practical leadership? Are these daily questions that inform each political decision?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:38
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How will President Obama deal with the hopes and fears of people abroad? Will his priority be the interests of the United States or will the welfar...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:28
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This story follows a day in the life of Nadeem Awan, a child laborer and student in Karachi, Pakistan.

  • Added: Jul 10, 2009
  • Length: 05:22
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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A modern look at the world's poor and the causes of poverty

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: 01:00:48
  • Purchases: 1
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Should the US Give Military Assistance to Mexico ?

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:35
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The role of Sharia law in civic life in the Middle East and policies that encourage the advance of nuclear capabilities

  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 27:59