PRX - Pieces for Topic: Politics
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It’s a fairytale we constantly hear. Growth always leads to prosperity. Logically that should mean that we have endless resources. In that case, wh...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 06, 2022
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
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
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
A well run democracy takes a lot of work on the part of the citizenry. People need to be informed. In America today, there is a rising brand of lib...
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- Added: Oct 06, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Corporations have a very long history of denying wrongdoing. Think Wells Fargo, Volkswagen, Exxon Mobile. The list is lengthy. In fact ,the persist...
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- Added: Jun 02, 2020
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Here are some numbers that will make you think. Just 26 people – call them billionaires – own as much wealth as half the people on the planet. At t...
- Added: Jul 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Most people believe that capitalist economics are self-regulated. According to UC Davis economic sociologist Fred L. Block, this view is simply an ...
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- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
American voters have been convinced to vote against their best interests for decades, according to sociology professors Corey Dolgon.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Jun 12, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
No matter how we voted in this last election, all of us can agree on one thing. Our country, and the world, faces significant problems: Racism to c...
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- Added: Jan 11, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Try to find a true democracy anywhere in the world and you’ll be challenged. What you’ll find instead is a nation ruled by the few, with the majori...
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- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
America is the leading industrial country for incarcerated citizens.
Editor-in-Chief of Truthout, Maya Schenwar, envisions the possibility of a fut...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KCBX
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Author Frances Moore Lappe describes herself as a “possibilist” rather than an optimist or pessimist. In her recent book, she argues that solutions...
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- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Jason Kelly is the author of nine books including The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing, a BusinessWeek best seller soon to be in its ...
- Added: Oct 07, 2012
- Length: 57:43
Successful homeownership is a fundamental part of the American dream. Rebuilding that dream is in our national interest, and crucial to our economi...
- Added: Aug 30, 2012
- Length: 28:59
Author, columnist and economics professor Robert H. Frank's new book, The Darwin Economy, describes what Darwin can teach us about building a bette...
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Charles Ferguson talks bodyguards, confrontation, and getting to the facts for his Oscar(tm)-winning documentary.
- Added: Feb 28, 2011
- Length: 17:09