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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Well, we have an enigmatic scandal brewing in my state. Twenty-one ballots- all for a state Senate Republican candidate surfaced inside a sealed ba...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:22
Caption: The Texas Petrochemicals flare., Credit: Bryan Parras
We've heard a lot about the economy this general election season. Not so much about the other big E-word: the environment. Unless you count the man...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 03, 2014
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Andrew Hiller
Pretty soon, you're going to start hearing warnings about the War on Christmas... Now, that battle may be hard to spot through the blinking red a...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
If Woodward and Bernstein and Ben Bradlee had gone for the “gotcha” instead of the truth, the cost would have been the truth. The integrity that ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
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Several reasons are presented which individually and collectively demonstrate why Ebola should be treated as though it is airborne.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:16
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The World Health Organization this week announced a horrendous fact: the number of Ebola cases in West Africa is doubling every 20 days. If this t...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 04:41
Caption: Paul Craig Roberts
Unspun discusses the dangers to both our economy and freedoms in the age of unfettered, predatory capitalism with Paul Craig Roberts.

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Aug 11, 2014
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Former Sunnyvale Mayor Tony Spitaleri leading a City Council meeting last January when the new gun ordinance went into effect., Credit: Liz Pfeffer
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
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With hundreds of Earth-like planets discovered over the past few years, it’s fair to say we’re on the verge of finding alien life. Two new programs...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
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I think there is a widespread feeling that in the face of last's years Marathon tragedy and the need to support the victims and their families, tha...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:32
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Why the Dodgers Will Lose

  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:19
Caption: Syracuse University Design Professor Zeke Leonard demonstrates his intonarumori noise-making instruments., Credit: A. Randall Wenner
Is it possible to make “music” from “noise”? Is it possible to enjoy it? Randy Wenner reports on an experimental music genre making a comeback of s...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Seth India Today Cover, Credit: India Today
He is one of the best known Indian writers writing in English these days. But Vikram Seth is a very private man. But Dec. 11, 2013 changed all that.

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Feb 03, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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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
Caption: Host Martha Burk
According to the latest statistics available, one teen or child is killed with a gun every 3 hours 15 minutes, many by their peers. It's time for ...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
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Drone attacks. Black sites where prisoners are tortured. Guantanamo is still in operation. As we enter the 6th year of Barack Obamas presidency, I...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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Just when you thought it was safe.....republicans start talking about making demands in return for raising the debt ceiling again..or else.... do s...

Bought by KMXT and WOUB


  • Added: Dec 24, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Voice for Working People
News from Detroit, Connecticut, and DC.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
Caption: The Voice for Working People
News for December 2-6th.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
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What India's latest space mission to Mars can tell us about the difficulties in reconciling the aspirations of the "haves" and the "have nots."

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
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Not so shocking news about John Boehner's alcoholism from Down With Tyranny's Howie Klein who also tells us about Boehner's Rastafarian daughter.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2013
  • Length: 05:29
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Can you flip your middle finger at a cop? Hunger In America. Climate Change. Two movies you must see. And what's wrong with the DCCC? Weekly series...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2013
  • Length: 29:58
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What a suicide attack in Tiananmen Square can tell us about the Chinese government's struggle with dissent.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:07
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What the adoption of Sharia in Brunei can tell us about the importance of modern interpretations of Islamic law.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:15
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What the modern-day remnants of the British Empire can tell us about being an effective force for change when the news cameras stop recording.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:12