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Affirmative action's foes worked with conservative Chinese American organizations to sue two colleges over their admissions processes. The result w...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, WNYE and more


  • Added: Jul 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: BLM rally in North Hollywood, Credit: Jed Alexander
Even in complicated times, we tend to forget the simplicity of, “why we protest” even if the issue is a no-brainer or has complicated edges. We kno...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2020
  • Length: 07:34
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Days of wonder, days of rage. We're living through an information revolution as profound as any since Gutenberg and the printing press, but are we ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Southern activists are shaking things up, with their votes, and their broadband transmitter too. This week, Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson and Rev. Ally...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Feb 06, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Hollywood director Tom Shadyac traded a mansion and private jets for a mobile home and a bicycle. He had found the traditional trappings of success...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KUNM, KVSC, and KZUM


  • Added: Feb 28, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Steve Carell and Tom Shadyac on the set
Tom Shadyac is a successful Hollywood comedy director who found the traditional trappings of success were not the key to happiness. He traded a man...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KUNM, and KVSC


  • Added: Feb 21, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Brad Friedman
Brad Friedman of The BradBlog and The Bradcast radio show joins us again to help make sense of these primary elections and electoral politics in th...

  • Added: May 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:45
Caption: Storrs Congregrational
The number of people imprisoned in the United States is rapidly increasing. Although America accounts for only five percent of the world’s populati...

Bought by KVSC, KPVL, and KCBX


  • Added: Sep 15, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Imprisonment, oppressive laws, and harassment of journalists - these are just a few means of censorship around the world. The use of these repressi...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Apr 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
If Woodward and Bernstein and Ben Bradlee had gone for the “gotcha” instead of the truth, the cost would have been the truth. The integrity that ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The truth can be our moral antidote, our moral medicine, the vitamin that- yes, if someone is trying to tell us that nine dollars and something is ...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:23
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The cost of the truth is not tied to inflation. It’s tied to tolerance, inversely. The more tolerance that exists, the lower the price paid for the...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2014
  • Length: 04:23
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In this episode...if you want to get a straight answer from a politician, try asking a straight question. ( it probably won't work...but at least y...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2012
  • Length: 56:04

  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
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It's that time again. Memorial Day, Flag Day and Independence Day tend to bring out the best and worst in us...told thru narration, music and actua...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2012
  • Length: 56:35
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Network News shows are now using songs during newscasts..and often the results are unintended commentary and professional journalism suffers. This ...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 58:25
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'tis the network that's dying, not fine television

  • Added: Dec 03, 2006
  • Length: 01:56
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there are limits beneath which public taste will not descend

  • Added: Nov 25, 2006
  • Length: 01:01
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cell phones plus YouTube make stars of everyone, for better or worse

  • Added: Nov 25, 2006
  • Length: 01:17
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a vote for Al Jazeera in English

  • Added: Nov 25, 2006
  • Length: 01:21