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Explore thought-provoking perspectives and insights on the pandemic with host Dr. Sam Dubé and special guest Laura Einsenhower.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:56:22
Caption: Rev. Carrick, Credit: Rev. Neil Patrick Carrick
In 2004, former member of the greater grace world outreach in Baltimore, MD, Rev. Neil Patrick Carrick, became a whistleblower after uncovering fin...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2020
  • Length: 14:56
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Covid-19 has transformed jails and prisons into death traps. How are some communities jailing less people in the first place. After someone is arre...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Honolulu Civil Beat reporter Jessica Terrell introduces the deadly events of Nov. 5, 2011 when a white off-duty federal agent shot and killed a Nat...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 36:35
  • Purchases: 1
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We all know this feeling. You're driving. Maybe you're speeding. Maybe you don't think you're doing anything wrong. All of a sudden blue lights fla...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 06, 2015
  • Length: 15:48
  • Purchases: 1
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The law isn’t actually written in stone. It morphs and changes with the times. What happens when laws change all of a sudden and people find themse...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2015
  • Length: 19:32
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When prisoners act out, they get put in solitary confinement-- the penal version of 'go to your room and think about what you've done.' But for the...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 28, 2015
  • Length: 24:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Climate change is here affecting weather conditions and sea levels. In India it's also having a more surprising influence on the country's tigers. ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Reveal for March is here Air window is March 14 to April 10. We look at the power of a photo, what happens when a VA doctor hands out opiates to v...

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WVTF, Interlochen Public Radio, KISU, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 96
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Without ever knowing it, you may have driven the same routes, passed the same landmarks and used the same rest stops as today’s human trafficking n...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 5
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Richmond, California is one of the lowest-income communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s also one of the most toxic. On this edition, we’ll...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WBEZ, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: U.S. soldier at Tahwilla, Iraq in 2008., Credit: U.S. Army
Was mainstream media in cahoots with government forces in the lead up to the Iraq War? In his film, “The War You Don’t See,” Australian journalis...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: The Brain of a Sociopath
Narcissists and Sociopaths have always been among us and yet recent research brings us new understanding of just what these serious emotional disab...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 47:10
Caption: The southeast corner of the Dow Chemical plant, from the vantage  of Midland's Whiting Overlook Park, which features an homage to and  history of the company and its founder., Credit: Shawn Allee
Residents are asking why it's taken so long to clean up the dioxin. Shawn Allee looks for an answer.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 03:17
Caption: Feb. 12, 2009 plane crash near Clarence, N.Y., as photographed by citizen journalist "Traceur Zero" for CNN's iReport, Credit: Courtesy CNN
Two one-hour CBC Radio programs about changes to our understanding of 'journalism' now that anyone can create, report and publish news.

Bought by Louisville Public Media, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KQED, Spokane Public Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 29, 2009
  • Length: 52:14
  • Purchases: 7
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Surviving family members in capital murder cases often endure years of legal appeals.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2008
  • Length: 07:57
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Should the US Give Military Assistance to Mexico ?

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:35
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As factory farms grow bigger, they get harder to regulate. Just try counting cows on a mega-dairy.

  • Added: Jan 16, 2008
  • Length: 05:35
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What happens when someone's violent past becomes public knowledge?

  • Added: Jun 13, 2007
  • Length: 05:49
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Examining democracy in Uganda.

Bought by KUHB


  • Added: Nov 22, 2005
  • Length: 22:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Feature on Human Trafficking and the International Sex Trade

  • Added: Aug 17, 2005
  • Length: 13:00
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A new inquiry into a notorious murder case that asks: Were the wrong men convicted of this crime?

Bought by Audible and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2005
  • Length: 59:26
  • Purchases: 2