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Taxes are necessary for a civilized society, and most ordinary people pay their fair share. But there's one group that pays nothing at all, while ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2024
- Length: 03:00
Dr. Mindy Romero, founder of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California, talks with Jess about current election sc...
- Added: Feb 06, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Immigration journalist Bekah McNeel speaks on the subtleties of this controversial topic.
- Added: Dec 28, 2023
- Length: 58:02
- Purchases: 3
Thanksgiving is coming up – and once again turkey will be the star of the show. But there’s always an issue with side dishes. No worries, a busines...
- Added: Nov 16, 2023
- Length: 02:30
Science fictions are widely held dangerous beliefs that are not supported by science. Jess explores a few of these in anticipation of the continued...
- Added: Oct 03, 2023
- Length: 29:00
If you're getting nervous these days about going to the grocery or taking your kid to the ballpark for fear of getting shot, rest easy. Republicans...
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 03:00
The U.S. is far behind other developed countries when it comes to support for motherhood. Most mothers are in the paid workforce, and we need new ...
- Added: May 09, 2023
- Length: 02:30
"MacArthur 'genius award'winning landscape designer Kate Orff believes that gray infrastructure, like levees and flood gates and sea walls, can on...
- Added: Sep 21, 2021
- Length: 03:30
The biggest tech companies generate enormous wealth and power by harvesting information about people. It’s called surveillance capitalism. This epi...
- Added: May 26, 2020
- Length: 29:00
President Donald Trump’s tax plan may exacerbate wealth inequity in the US. Chuck Collins, Director of the Program on Inequality at the Institute f...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR
- Added: Jan 16, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
On this edition, we hear from Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton Universit...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Things we learn from Woody Guthrie and Native Americans ... and Donald Trump's dad?
- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 27:19
Michael Bronski is an American academic and writer, best known for his 2011 book A Queer History of the United States.
Bought by WFHB
- Added: May 12, 2016
- Length: 25:03
- Purchases: 1
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
An anthropologist comments on the complicated relationship in Bolivia between the natural gas industry and those who want to protect the environmen...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 12:00
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 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership has been causing conflict of late, with a broad range of disagreements over key provisions and debates inte...
- Added: Jun 02, 2015
- Length: 05:45
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
The recent budget deal had plenty for war contractors, but jobless Americans were left in the cold. For them, it's going to be a very Unhappy New ...
- Added: Dec 26, 2013
- Length: 02:30
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
Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on how the sequester hurts kids and the elderly while corporations shirk taxes.
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Two and one-half minute commentary by Equal Time host Martha Burk on the subject of equal pay for women.
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 02:30
- Added: Mar 14, 2013
- Length: 11:29
