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Top of Mind - Political Primaries
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Why don’t more Americans vote in primary elections? Are open, partisan or closed primaries better for voter engagement?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KOWS, KMXT, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
How do judicial appointments and elections work?
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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When it comes to the judiciary, when do we prioritize independence over accountability?

  • Added: Nov 07, 2023
  • Length: 04:33
Civics 101: The History of Labor Policy
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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The modern day workplace is the product of a centuries-long battle for fair wages, reasonable hours and safe conditions. Civics 101 tells the story...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUT, WXDU, RadioStPete Florida, and WVTF


  • Added: Nov 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:29
  • Purchases: 5
Summer Road Construction Plans with Mike Doherty from MN DOT
From: KQAL
Series: Don't Cha Know
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Summer Road Construction Plans with Mike Doherty from MN DOT

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 24:48
Voice of Reason for Independent Minds: Talking Media & Polarization with CNN's Michael Smerconish
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Voice of Reason for Independent Minds: Talking Media & Polarization with CNN's Michael Smerconish, Credit: Fluent Knowledge LLC
Join us today for this master class from Michael Smerconish on partisan politics in the media and partisan media in politics, the tightly-wound sym...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
Public Service - recorded 11/02
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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Public Service discussion between older, middle & younger generations

  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 24:39
Listening to Our Braver Angels
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Red, blue, rich, poor, country, city, left or right. Chances are you probably fall into one of those categories. And you may be quite happy where y...

Bought by KWMR, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
New Justice, Prison Abolition: A World Beyond Prisons
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Note: This episode originally aired the summer of 2019. Prisons, police and punishment through incarceration. Are they with us forever in the lan...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 16, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Importance of SEEing. with Civity Co-Founders Malka Kopell & Palma Strand
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Logo_Civity
Civity co-founders Malka Kopell and Palma Strand discuss the importance of SEEing, and how the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have led to an increase i...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Bridging the Gap- H.H. on Inside/Outside Coordination
From: WFHB
Series: Kite Line
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This week, we hear a talk by H.H., who spoke recently at the Bend the Bars conference in Lansing, Michigan. H.H. shares his story, including the in...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2020
  • Length: 29:22
This is an Uprising
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paul Engler
Central Coast Bioneers held its first conference in San Luis Obispo in 2010. Looking at their mission statement, It reads … To create a resilient a...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 30, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Should activists run for Congress? Pramila Jayapal & Dominique Stevenson
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Seattle Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-7th) and Baltimore activist Dominique Stevenson discuss activism, political involvement and why leaders...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Revolutions in Leadership and Economics: Conversations with Linda Kohanov and Anthony Flaccavento
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Anthony Flaccavento and Linda Kohanov
Learning Leadership from Master Herders and Building the Economy from the Bottom Up.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Jun 04, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 1
Stand Up!
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Gordon Whitman
For the past 20-years, Gordon Whitman has been working with the group Faith in Action where he is the deputy director. His job is teaching people h...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 18, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Daring Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Frances Moore Lappé
Some feel the election of Donald Trump is a signal that people want change. Others see it as a culmination of a decades long effort to destabilize ...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Polluted Public Coversation with James Hoggan, Author and PR Professional
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: James Hoggan
James Hoggan, author of I’m Right and You’re An Idiot : The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up, Chair of the David Suzuki Found...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Jun 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 1
Cathy Cresser, Write-in Candidate District 3 Talks Politics on Unspun
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Cathy Cresser
Cathy Cresser, local write-in candidate for Shasta County Supervisor District 3, Joins us in the studio to tell us more about herself and her camp...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2016
  • Length: 57:45
"People Get Ready" to Reclaim Democracy with Robert McChesney
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Robert McChesney
Robert W. McChesney, the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the autho...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:21
Collective Delusions of America with Prof. Jerry Kroth, Psychologist and Author
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Jerry Kroth
Unspun challenges American delusions and the myths that underlie our collective insanity with Jerry Kroth, Assoc. Professor Emeritus of Psychology ...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Mar 13, 2016
  • Length: 57:47
  • Purchases: 1
5th Annual SOTU Breakdown with NewsVandal, JP Sottile
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: JP Sottile
JP Sottile, the NewsVandal, joins us again to take an in-depth look at President Obama's 2016 State of the Union speech before Congress. JP brings...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Jan 18, 2016
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 1
Unspun with Cohost Pamela Spoto, Looks at the So-Called Criminal Justice System with Prof. Michael J. Coyle
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Michael J. Coyle
Dr. Coyle is currently Associate Professor, in the Political Science Department of California State University, Chico. He teaches courses on "Pris...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 31, 2015
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Political Classroom
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: The Political Classroom jacket, Credit: Routledge Press
When politics is polarized, so is American Society. That, in turn, makes things more difficult for educators and students. It becomes riskier for t...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and KCBX


  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Chomsky Challenge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Chomsky's Challenge, Credit: book jacket cover
Noam Chomsky is a polarizing figure in politics and foreign affairs. Although he is a pioneering scholar in the field of linguistics, he is better...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
Living in the Shadow of the Cross
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Paul Kivel
Christianity has provided many positive events: assisting the underprivileged, supported education and promoted social justice, however, its also f...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1
Reclaiming Our Democracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sam Daley-Harris
With his new book, Sam Daley-Harris shares how he and the citizens advocacy organizations he has founded (RESULTS and the Microcredit Summit Campai...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 1