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The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about right and wrong in sixty seconds about pressing matters of the day. Because the Maine legislatu...
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 01:15
Maine's Legislature will vote on Open-Pit Mining soon but whose testimony about environmental contamination will be believed and who will speak th...
- Added: Mar 24, 2017
- Length: 06:34
From the Trump White House, the latest justification for dismissing legal challenges to the Muslim travel ban is that the Constitution makes the Un...
- Added: Mar 17, 2017
- Length: 05:28
A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...
- Added: Feb 22, 2017
- Length: 01:17
Selling whatever this country has, for money, of course, at every turn, even at the highest echelons of government, has become the highest priorit...
- Added: Feb 11, 2017
- Length: 07:05
Millions of women all over this country are protesting the denial and exclusion of women’s rights by the new Washington, DC throne holder. So to e...
- Added: Jan 21, 2017
- Length: 03:09
Like the Defense Industry, Obamacare was created to keep America strong. Like the Defense Industry, Obamacare government stipends are paid to priva...
- Added: Jan 06, 2017
- Length: 01:12
If you missed the smearing, cheap shots and character assassination against women this year, and one woman in particular, maybe you were cut off f...
- Added: Jan 01, 2017
- Length: 08:11
Poor young New York couple wrestle with buying each other secret Christmas gifts. First published on Dec 10 1905.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Dec 14, 2016
- Length: 19:29
- Purchases: 1
The year is 1959, and one in every two babies are dying in childbirth.
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Dec 08, 2016
- Length: 26:32
- Purchases: 1
Think about something you've spent your whole life wanting to do. Now try to think about what's kept you from doing it. What comes to mind? For...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 19, 2016
- Length: 10:34
- Purchases: 2
There is always, someone, somewhere who "like a bird on the wire" from Leonard Cohen's song, is trying “in [his or her] way to be free“.
Since 1...
- Added: Nov 13, 2016
- Length: 07:40
As women in this country grieve the lost opportunity to elect a woman President, the widespread sanctioning of Donald Trump’s sexploitation is ther...
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 05:11
Business travel can be exhilarating unless you have a ghost phobia.
- Added: Oct 31, 2016
- Length: 12:36
The Standing Rock Sioux are protesting the construction of the 1200 mile Dakota Access oil pipeline because it threatens and places at enormous r...
- Added: Oct 30, 2016
- Length: 06:15
In honor of the upcoming Presidential race, The River Is Wide presents a melding of our favorite features. A Citizen's Guide, A Sixty Second Moral ...
- Added: Oct 29, 2016
- Length: 01:34
The anniversary of the loss of my childhood friend who died from suicide just passed. She, like many women, was sexually abused and never told an...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 07:59
Majd Abdulghani is a teenager living in Saudi Arabia, one of the most restrictive countries for women in the world. She wants to be a scientist. He...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 17, 2016
- Length: 30:45
- Purchases: 3
Today’s Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks when men engage in sexploitation whose responsibility is it to refuse to sanction or accept as ‘just the wa...
- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 01:14
This Cutting Edge Special looks at the life of writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.
- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 01:00:16
The then director of the Harvard Eating Disorders program gave a talk to a small group of eating disorder mental health providers in my work town. ...
- Added: Oct 10, 2016
- Length: 07:33
Today's Sixty-second Moral inquiry brings quotations from the Republican Bible on Adultery which ask 'Why Shouldn't the GOP Presidential Candidate...
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 01:18
Child prodigies need the chance to find themselves- the moment they become ‘spellbound’ because they have found the field their gift has been looki...
- Added: Oct 02, 2016
- Length: 07:04
Here we are just weeks before the 2016 Presidential election and what seems to be on the line- still- is whether or not Hillary Clinton is a truth...
- Added: Sep 30, 2016
- Length: 02:40
I’m not sure how one marries the proprietary "I give the right to life” to the “I give the right to life free from emotional and physical torment...
- Added: Sep 17, 2016
- Length: 06:17