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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The River Is Wide today offers a musical tribute to the 2016 Republican primaries to the tune of "Tonight" from the Broadway musical "West Side Sto...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2016
  • Length: 01:22
Caption:  Time to Practice Your Odds for the Derby and Presidents, Credit: Susan Cook
I was reading the New York Times article about the last batch of the 30000 emails released that Hillary Clinton received on her private server- wh...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2016
  • Length: 05:17
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Seth Godin joined me in an exclusive conversation on what makes real art (and what is just weird), why most musicians aren't building tribes but sh...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 19:40
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In 2010, an eighth-grader brought a loaded gun to a middle school in Hastings, Minnesota. We speak with two students and the principal about the mi...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 19:06
  • Purchases: 1
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The 500-year-old Treaty Oak in Austin, Texas was once called “the most perfect specimen of a North American tree.” But in 1989, Austin’s city fores...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 22:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks 'Since Apple claims they refuse the order to open the San Bernadino murderer's I-phone to respect the ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:14
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As a young woman in the 60s, Andy Austin talked her way into a job as a courtroom sketch artist in Chicago. She spent 43 years sketching everyone f...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2016
  • Length: 17:21
  • Purchases: 1
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Brittney Packnett gives a passionate speech to honor the civil rights leader birthday.

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  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Michael Ross was the first person in Connecticut to be sentenced to death since 1960. He claimed that he wanted to die in order to atone for what h...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 27:50
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Ed Crawford had never been to a protest until he heard about the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Robert Cohen, a staff photographe...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 17:28
  • Purchases: 1
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From Average Joe to Millionaire: How To Retire Comfortably With Millions, How Lunch With Warren Buffett Can Change A Guy, Be Smarter With Your Char...

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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From Average Joe to Millionaire: How To Retire Comfortably With Millions, Be Smarter With Your Charitable Giving This Holiday Season, A Roadmap For...

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In 2005, Danny Egipciaco had the opportunity to participate in a robbery of a drug supplier’s stash house. He was told he’d take home between $100K...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 19:35
Caption: Handing off..., Credit: Susan Cook
Over 100 people have died from heroin and fentanyl-laced drug overdoses this year, in Maine. Maine’s governor says he will call in the National Gua...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2015
  • Length: 04:47
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Carrie Parker's 40 some relatives are speaking in her honor at Indiana University. Carrie Parker was the first African American to attend IU

  • Added: Oct 15, 2015
  • Length: 09:28
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How Saginaw is eliminating blighted, vacant properties.

  • Added: Sep 29, 2015
  • Length: 25:43
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A brief look at the issues Saginaw, MI is currently dealing with.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 22:14
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A Town Clerk in Kentucky has refused to give out a marriage license to a gay couple, risking jail time, because the two of them marrying “does not...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2015
  • Length: 04:13
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Recently, two Washington Post reporters looked at how human beings are valued in Donald Trump world, now, and as he turned the $200000 his father ...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:57
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In 1948, the United Nations said seeking asylum is a basic right to seek protection from government persecution. In my state, there is now a contro...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2015
  • Length: 04:50
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Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men. It ...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2015
  • Length: 21:41
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Co-owner Tony Torres cooking Shrimp a la Diabla, Credit: Olivia Cueva
On the corner of 14th Avenue and International Boulevard in East Oakland, there's a strip mall with a mini-mart, a laundromat, and then there is Sa...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 15:02
Caption: Political Gamesmanship's Hostages? Water, Birds, Wildlife  2009 to 2018, Credit: Susan Cook/Google Earth
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right and what is wrong. Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks what is wrong with pol...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:19
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The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that Arizona’s 2000 law which created an Independent Commission to determine Congressional Re-d...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 07:04
Caption: Interstate 95 unceremoniously ends in Miami, dumping drivers onto US1., Credit: Greg Castillo for WLRN
A series of tourist murders leads to a national conversation on cruel and unusual punishment for teenagers, two street artists become public enemy ...

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  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 50:59
  • Purchases: 2