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How justices are added to the Supreme Court, via partisan or nonpartisan means.
- Added: Nov 07, 2023
- Length: 04:32
Rain - André Wallace is a City Council Member at Mount Vernon, New York. He is also the owner of a construction company, Creative Direction Constru...
- Added: Jul 06, 2020
- Length: 02:22
Featuring Emmy winners Bobby Cannavale and Martha Plimpton, and recorded live on stage at Playwrights Horizons, the entertaining and timely plays i...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR) and KUNM
- Added: Jan 25, 2018
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 2
We need to change the way we think if we want to extend the shelf-life of our civilization, according to Frances Moore Lappé, author of EcoMind: Ch...
Bought by KTRL
- Added: Apr 25, 2017
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 1
Fed up with the election? Threatening to move to Canada? A new book, "How to Move to Canada: A Discontented American's Guide to Canadia Relocation,...
- Added: Oct 25, 2016
- Length: 14:50
Episode 130:
Given all the horrible experiences people have had over the telephone with massive cable companies, it isn't clear that one can design...
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 15:02
Exotic dancers, on-call drivers and writers might have a different name for what they do -- freelancing, part-time work and independent contracting...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 14:51
- Purchases: 4
Barack Obama plans to send his VP choice via text message to supporters. But is it possible to text something meaningful? Kat and Kaitie seek to a...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 06:13
What's in a name? As Kat Beame find out, everything. She talks to Goodspaceguy Nelson, an eccentric candidate running for Congress from Washington....
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 07:19
Republicans now control both houses for the first time since 2006. Paul Kane of the Washington Post joins us to talk about the attempted rebellion...
Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, KUER, and Northeast Indiana Public Radio
- Added: Jan 08, 2015
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 5
In Episode 18 of Behind The Thread, we look at wages around the world. Sokny Say of the Free Trade Union of the Workers of the Kingdom of Cambodia ...
- Added: Nov 21, 2014
- Length: 40:07
Robert Platshorn once spent thirty years in prison for smuggling marijuana, and in a sign of changing times, over the past weekend, Platshorn organ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2014
- Length: 17:00
I walked the Truckee River Trail through downtown Reno this past Saturday and recorded an interview with a man selling cds and playing a drum. Lar...
- Added: Apr 21, 2014
- Length: 06:29
Another vote -- this time on raising the debt ceiling -- and other fissure exposed inside the GOP. Carl Hulse of the New York Times talks to Polit...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WXXI Rochester, and WRKF
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 08:00
- Purchases: 3
Episode 16 features an interview from 2009 with the noted writer Sarah Schulman, the author of After Dolores, Shimmer, People in Trouble, Rat Bohem...
- Added: Jan 08, 2014
- Length: 35:31
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 16:54
A profile on Ryan Bowers, a winner of Yale University's Last Comic Standing, and an opener for John Mulaney at the Yale Fall Show.
- Added: Nov 17, 2012
- Length: 04:20
As part of the 10th anniversary of one of CBC's premier current affairs programs, The Current, an interview from 2006 with the author Kurt Vonnegut...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 22:59
Every year, in cities across the world, cyclists throw off their clothes and ride naked as part of the World Naked Bike Ride - a global protest mov...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jun 15, 2011
- Length: 18:13
- Purchases: 1
Open Source "Shorties" are 7-8 minute cuts of our best evergreen material. Today: Mark Blyth on the political economy of uncertainty in Japan, Egyp...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Mar 25, 2011
- Length: 07:47
- Purchases: 1
Historian Vazira Zamindar talks about the "wound of partition" in today's Pakistan. Then, we meet three young composers - Cynthia Lee Wong, Jacob B...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Feb 24, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
The Camp's Neo Economist, Jim Smith, revisits the virtual campfire with insights about the economic crisis we face as he covers topics that challen...
- Added: Feb 09, 2009
- Length: 01:00:01
- Added: Nov 21, 2008
- Length: 05:47
A Vox Pop musical piece from polling places around the Bay Area
- Added: Nov 04, 2008
- Length: 03:21
Part Two of Lex Pelger's adventures on the road with Tibetan monks
- Added: Mar 30, 2008
- Length: 06:35
