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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
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
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
When balancing life's complex tensions, how do you know when you've crossed a line?
- Added: Mar 25, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Discover how a curious pathologist turned into an expert on death and challenged our ideas of life and self-determination.
Bought by WNIN, WHRV, Iowa Public Radio, and Louisville Public Media
- Added: Feb 24, 2010
- Length: 55:55
- Purchases: 4
How are Haitians who live outside of the devastated country learning about the fate of their loved ones? And how are they coping? Numa Perrier, a H...
- Added: Jan 27, 2010
- Length: 30:00
We go to Postville, Iowa and Laurel, Mississippi--two communities where the largest workplace immigration raids happened in 2008.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jan 20, 2010
- Length: 14:53
- Purchases: 1
#1 Should scientists be arrested? Digest of AGU keynote speech by Richard Alley on charges & past climate. #2 The Coming Climate Panic (and skiing)...
- Added: Jan 11, 2010
- Length: 51:58
John Wilson faces first degree felony charges usually used against cocaine kingpins. Now he faces up to 35 years in state prison for having 17 mari...
- Added: Dec 16, 2009
- Length: 29:31
- Added: Dec 06, 2009
- Length: 03:04
Do you believe in climate science - or is it a hoax aimed at world domination? First half: testimony of John Holdren, Obama science advisor, & Jan...
- Added: Dec 04, 2009
- Length: 01:00:00
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
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
By 2050 some estimate that climate change will displace 150 million people, but the displaced won't qualify as refugees under international law. Wh...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Nov 13, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Should cultural treasures, acquired under dubious circumstances, be returned to their places of origin?
- Added: Nov 13, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Can we regulate international space like the oceans? Pollution and illegal or unregulated fishing plague international waters. How can the problem ...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Nov 13, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Viagra, a drug with infinite name recognition and touted benefits is, as we know, pervasively advertised on television and the Internet. But what i...
- Added: Nov 10, 2009
- Length: 29:01
The mainstream media are in effect censoring labor news that's important to all of us.
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 06:24
- Added: Sep 23, 2009
- Length: 29:53
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Sep 18, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
How do we put value on the forests as an indispensable element of our survival? Can we balance market mechanisms with regulations and consumption w...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Sep 18, 2009
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Do states have a responsibility to protect the planet? If so, who would decide when environmental protection is a legitimate reason to interfere in...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Sep 18, 2009
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
Cokie Roberts hosts a panel of international journalists, politicos, academics and legal experts consider mental illness in the context of two chal...
Bought by KMUN, WRVO Public Media, WTIP, KXOT Public Radio, KWIT and more
- Added: Aug 31, 2009
- Length: 57:28
- Purchases: 7
