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Jackpot: How the Super Rich Really Live – and How Their Wealth Harms Us All
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Hitting the jackpot sounds good, right? At least that’s what many of us believe. We may fantasize how we would spend the money, or how we would giv...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Is Putin a Tyrant?
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Fiala
The question, “Is Putin a Tyrant” is a loaded one. After all, over the centuries leaders of all strips have been called tyrants. Realistically, the...

Bought by KFCF FM and KCBX


  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Stephen Zunes
Russia invades Crimea in 2014. Eight years later they attack Ukraine. In the meantime, President Biden emphatically states “any use of force to cha...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tyranny from Plato to Trump: Fools, Sycophants, and Citizens
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrew Fiala
Bullies are everywhere in all societies and at all levels. The worst of the bullies are those who hold power over the state and its people. They be...

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Off the Edge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kelly Weill
It’s an age-old conundrum. Getting the facts to the people. Think of the telephone game. As the story passes through several tellers, distortions a...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Coronavirus Criminals
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: John Nichols
Since the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak, one in five Americans have been infected. Nearly one million have died. Nurses, doctors, bus drive...

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  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Beyond Knowledge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: William Halal
For the past 20-years or so, our society has been deep in the Knowledge Age. Now, it’s about to be replaced by the digital revolution and artificia...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Born in Blackness part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Howard W. French, Credit: Guardian
It’s just possible that our understanding of history is seen through a distorted lens. We think we know how the modern world was made. But, keep in...

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  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Born in Blackness
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Howard W. French
Most of us know very little about the history of the African American. Their contribution to our culture and society is rich and multilayered that...

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  • Added: Feb 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Painting the Walls Black: Chaka Mkali Challenges Traditional Notions of Curatorial Work
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Album Cover, I Self Devine, Rituals of Resilience, Credit: Illustration: Johnalynn Holland, Lettering: Andres Guzman, Image Courtesy of I Self Devine
Add curator to a long list of Chaka Mkali's professional accomplishments. In the tradition of fellow Afrofuturists who have looked to the sky for i...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2022
  • Length: 06:16
The Write Question - CAConrad
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet CAConrad discusses their latest collection: "AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration."

Bought by WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 26, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Mind of the Censor and The Eye of the Beholder
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Robert Corn-Revere
When you think about it, we’re all censors in one form or another. Then there are those who make a profession of it. For many of those, it becomes ...

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  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dismantlng Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Donald Cohen
Unprecedented concentrations of wealth. Fundamental changes in the economy. A weakened institutional government, making it more difficult to meet p...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Tailored Brain
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Emily Willingham
It’s a conundrum. A puzzle. A very strange thing if you think about it. But, there in itself lies the problem. We’re thinking about and studying th...

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  • Added: Jan 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Privatization of Everything
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Donald Cohen
Democracy is more efficient, and equally distributed when public goods are created. Things like free education, public health, open parks, clean wa...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Media-Ready Feminism and Everyday Sexism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Andrea Press
The #MeToo movement burst into the headlines in the fall of 2017. What kept people gravitating to the stories was the list of celebrity sexual pred...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
An Illustrated Business History of the United States
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Richard Vague
The story of American business is the story of real estate. More than two hundred years of seizing, claiming, settling and developing. And, the col...

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Peter Norton
Several automotive companies are currently working to perfect autonomous vehicles. Their promises for high-tech driving includes crash free mobilit...

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Thicker Than Water
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Erica Cirino
We are surrounded by plastics. Literally enveloped. It has become so ubiquitous to our lives, frequently, we don’t even think about it. It surround...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Gender(s)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Kathryn Bond Stockton
It’s a girl or a boy. That’s identifiable at birth. Binary. A biological inheritance. Today, however, when it comes to gender, we’re living in a fl...

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Crooners’ Presents the Story of the Rondo Neighborhood through Song on Tuesday November 30
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Rondo 56 Group photo, Credit: Dan Chouinard
Rondo 56 tells how the Rondo neighborhood in Saint Paul was changed when Interstate 94 was built right through it. Rondo 56 includes music by a com...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
The Public Insult Playbook
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Ruth Colker
The rules of public discourse are not what they used to be. In fact, you can say, they are quite similar to what they used to be. Nevertheless, we ...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Carnism
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Dr. Melanie Joy
The average American consumes more than 234-pounds of meat every year. That’s chicken, beef, pork, turkey, veal, lamb, and fish. That may not even ...

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Measure What Matters
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: J.M. Beach
Measuring what and how much students learn is a daunting task. That’s the basic problem for education in America. But when you investigate the educ...

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  • Added: Oct 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Tax the Rich
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Morris Pearl
It’s in the tax code. And it’s the rich who manipulate that tax code. Over 70 percent of Americans believe that the economy is rigged to favor the ...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2

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