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Over the past decade, support for the death penalty has plummeted. In this episode, we look at why this happened and how one unexpected messenger, ...
- Added: Sep 27, 2021
- Length: 35:11
Fifty years ago, the Poor People’s Campaign took over a portion of the National Mall in Washington, DC. Their aim: change how Americans understand ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Sep 27, 2021
- Length: 37:10
- Purchases: 1
Narratives are all around us. These big meta-stories tell us who we are as a nation and the values we share. Narratives help us explain why things ...
- Added: Sep 26, 2021
- Length: 02:12
Guests include: Vineyard news of the week with Vineyard Gazette managing editor Bill Eville plus… Kyle Williams, Tom Amenta, and MV Museum's Resea...
- Added: Sep 14, 2021
- Length: 38:06
This episode picks up where Episode 167 left off. We suggest you listen to them in order.
When Aaron Quinn called the Vallejo police to report tha...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 43:40
“I think it was around 3:00 a.m., and that’s when I heard a strange man’s voice waking me from sleep.”
This is part one of a two-part episode. Lis...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 52:27
On November 12th, 2012, the Accomack County volunteer fire departments got a call. An abandoned house had suddenly gone up in flames. And then, jus...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 43:07
The Pacific Northwest was said to be terrorized by a serial killer in the early 20th century. Bodies were floating to the surface of the Chehalis a...
- Added: Aug 13, 2021
- Length: 32:13
In this collaboration with the podcast Self Evident, we look at what happens when we ignore anti-Asian hate—and what happens when we mobilize again...
Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Jul 29, 2021
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Social media is not fundamentally a source of information or a competition of ideas, but a competition of identities.
With that and other provoca...
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.
- Added: Jul 21, 2021
- Length: 26:59
- Purchases: 1
Qandeel Baloch grew up in a conservative village in Pakistan, a place where it was shocking to see a woman swimming outdoors. She ran away from hom...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 34:33
Today on Making Contact, we present the film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible. The film takes us on the transformational journey of w...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Feb 01, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
One Sunday night in November 1987, something very odd happened in the middle of the nine o’clock news in Chicago. As one television viewer said, it...
- Added: Dec 16, 2020
- Length: 23:35
The great state of Alaska is different in many ways – its vast size, low population, and great distance from “the lower 48” (states). Politics in A...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 28, 2020
- Length: 25:10
- Purchases: 1
How much trust can independent-minded voters place in polling this 2020 election season?
It seems not a day goes by without multiple new poll res...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Oct 01, 2020
- Length: 18:30
- Purchases: 1
Why Not So Great Minds Polarize Alike, with NYU Neural Scientist, Dr. Jay Van Bavel
- Added: Sep 21, 2020
- Length: 29:11
Did you hear the one about bipartisanship? Two opposing congressmen walk into a town hall…and civil discussion breaks out.
- Added: Aug 27, 2020
- Length: 26:08
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
How do social media algorithms feed us news, entertainment, advertisements, even suggesting friends and lovers? By simplifying human nature, accord...
- Added: Aug 07, 2020
- Length: 30:02
Episode 5 (Bonus Material)
Side of Spin with Your Nightly News? Broadcast Media & Partisanship, Special Guest: Dr. Dominik Stecula
What the heck ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2020
- Length: 05:59
Our producer Flawn Williams once got caught up in a sticky situation that triggered fears of a nuclear attack while working at a Chicago TV station...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 31, 2020
- Length: 20:30
- Purchases: 1
Episode 4: Heard from the Herd: Psychology and Partisanship, featuring Dr. Abigail Marsh, author of The Fear Factor, Professor of Neuropsychology a...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 22:52
By most measures, the US has over 40 million independent or unaffiliated voters representing a third or more of the electorate. Yet despite large a...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 24:05
In Episode 2, our guests include a former Republican speechwriter, a former centrist Democratic congressional candidate, a former Economist Magazin...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 23:18
How did these United States get so thoroughly partisan? How do we get less partisan? Can independent-minded Americans help bridge the divide?
The...
- Added: Jul 29, 2020
- Length: 12:01
