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This week on the show: Can science help persuade those who are stubborn about rejecting science? What cat medicine have to do with developing a ne...
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- Added: Sep 04, 2020
- Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: The biggest numbers yet & what they actually mean
In this episode, Germany's R number triples, the world sets a (bad) coro...
- Added: Jun 28, 2020
- Length: 30:00
Some years back The House of Representatives' healthcare bill denied maternity care and denied health insurance to 18 to 25 year olds. Back then...
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- Added: Jan 12, 2020
- Length: 01:07
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Why haven't pharmaceutical companies and oil corporations been asked to make health insurance lower by reducing drug costs or refusing federal subs...
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 02:43
The Senate and House Healthcare bills will replace Obamacare subsidies with tax breaks for the wealthy. Meanwhile oil and gas companies continue to...
- Added: Jun 27, 2017
- Length: 02:54
Some places, for example, the Intelligence Committee of the United States Senate serve as our country's moral proving ground. But this week‘s testi...
- Added: Jun 18, 2017
- Length: 02:57
FBI Director James Comey is being queried about whether President Donald Trump asked him to drop the investigation of former National Security Advi...
- Added: Jun 09, 2017
- Length: 04:10
Everyday the world can ask again what’s right or wrong , not just smugly proceed, go along on its merry path, answers tucked under its arm, as proo...
- Added: Jun 07, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Fourteen years ago this month, Maine Public Radio fired the host of a 30 year popular jazz program, The humble Farmer because he criticized the Ir...
- Added: Apr 29, 2017
- Length: 06:53
'Chuzo Tamotzu, Children’s Drawings and the Art of Resolution’ is an exhibit hosted by the Bowdoin Art Museum which presents the artwork of childr...
- Added: Apr 01, 2017
- Length: 07:35
From the Trump White House, the latest justification for dismissing legal challenges to the Muslim travel ban is that the Constitution makes the Un...
- Added: Mar 17, 2017
- Length: 05:28
Selling whatever this country has, for money, of course, at every turn, even at the highest echelons of government, has become the highest priorit...
- Added: Feb 11, 2017
- Length: 07:05
Like the Defense Industry, Obamacare was created to keep America strong. Like the Defense Industry, Obamacare government stipends are paid to priva...
- Added: Jan 06, 2017
- Length: 01:12
If you missed the smearing, cheap shots and character assassination against women this year, and one woman in particular, maybe you were cut off f...
- Added: Jan 01, 2017
- Length: 08:11
There is always, someone, somewhere who "like a bird on the wire" from Leonard Cohen's song, is trying “in [his or her] way to be free“.
Since 1...
- Added: Nov 13, 2016
- Length: 07:40
The anniversary of the loss of my childhood friend who died from suicide just passed. She, like many women, was sexually abused and never told an...
- Added: Oct 19, 2016
- Length: 07:59
Today’s Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks when men engage in sexploitation whose responsibility is it to refuse to sanction or accept as ‘just the wa...
- Added: Oct 13, 2016
- Length: 01:14
Today's Sixty-second Moral inquiry brings quotations from the Republican Bible on Adultery which ask 'Why Shouldn't the GOP Presidential Candidate...
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 01:18
This US Presidential campaign has been characterized by a striking absence of empathy. No empathy between candidates and a Social Code that defines...
- Added: Sep 13, 2016
- Length: 07:05
When Mitch McConnell and the Republicans snub a duly elected President and the American people who want a Supreme Court nominee to be vetted throug...
- Added: Sep 02, 2016
- Length: 07:13
As the battle wages on between the unarmed and the armed, the armed and the armed, the open carry armed and the concealed carry armed, the proble...
- Added: Jul 30, 2016
- Length: 05:19
Today’s sixty-second Moral Inquiry asks ‘What’s the difference between verbal abuse, which uses words to hold power over others by intimidating, th...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 01:09
The lessons of D.L. Rosenhan's study of imposters pretending to have psychiatric illness on psychiatric units have not been lost on the world of me...
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 07:32
In a Presidential primary that taxes our belief that the purpose of government is to benefit our lives, I remember legislation that Hillary Clinton...
- Added: May 13, 2016
- Length: 03:14
Riding on the train to the Democratic National Convention one year, I had the good fortune to talk with a former president of N.O.W. For young twen...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 05:03