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Food Waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks … just a few of the serious issues we have with our food supply.
We exp...
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
I have heard that inequality in America is at its highest point since the age of the Robber Barons. If true, many suspect it may get worse before i...
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- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Black Lives Matter protesters take over a city council meeting to protest against police killings of blacks, and how Ty're King's death overlapped ...
- Added: Sep 29, 2016
- Length: 03:00
The Gatekeeper: Missy LeHand, FDR, and the Untold Story of the Partnership That Defined a Presidency
From: Guy RathbunSeries: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
The Glass Ceiling: That’s a term that’s been bandied about for some time. Those women who reach the top of their field whether it’s in business or ...
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- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 29:00
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“An increasing number of people under the age of 25 get all their news, not just some of it, from Facebook.” The author points out that we are bomb...
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- Added: Sep 14, 2016
- Length: 09:54
- Purchases: 2
The first time a US Supreme Court ruling came out in favor of the LGBT community was in 1958. That was the beginning of a slow and arduous process...
- Added: Sep 06, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This is a difficult story to tell. Most Americans are sickened that it’s even part of our heritage: The practice of lynching. It’s so distant, most...
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- Added: Aug 31, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 29, 2016
- Length: 42:13
- Purchases: 1
In the winter of 2009, a social worker with the Iowa Department of Human Services, received an anonymous tip:
A couple dozen disabled men were liv...
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- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Americans appear frustrated today. The economy that was supposed to bounce back following the recession nearly a decade ago, remains sluggish and s...
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- Added: Aug 02, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Since the late 1800s four women have run for the office of US president.
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
At one time, all of us have witnessed a protest that is also theatrical. Whether it’s a sit in for equal rights in the 1960s, or the Yes Men infilt...
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- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
More books have been written about Bobby Kennedy than most public figures in our history.
Although he’s remembered as a fiery liberal, we easily ...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s been more than 240 years since the war of America’s independence began. Yet, the name Benedict Arnold still evokes any number of negative resp...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Our pilot episode focuses on the upcoming Presidential Primary Election in Ohio: In a political season rife with loud angry voices looking to shake...
- Added: Jun 24, 2016
- Length: 30:13
Award winning business journalist Rana Foroohar explores the provocative question that is at the top of mind of today's business leaders: Is Wall S...
- Added: Jun 21, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
You’d have to go back more than 160-years to land upon the beginning of the story of the gene.
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- Added: Jun 06, 2016
- Length: 29:01
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This is a personal story of the Vietnam War with Lynne Lorine Ludwick author of The Box.
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- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 1
America’s prison population has grown by leaps and bounds over the past 40-years. The “land of the free” has the dubious distinction of handing dow...
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- Added: May 18, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Congress is at a standstill. They have been for several years. In 2010 political insiders Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein began searching for the c...
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- Added: May 11, 2016
- Length: 28:59
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A controversy involving United Nations Peacekeeping forces, the World Health Organization, and scientists --- not to mention the people of Haiti -...
- Added: May 02, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Choices & Chismes talks to a few of the thousands of people who showed up Monday at the steps of the Supreme Court to show their support for Presid...
- Added: Apr 26, 2016
- Length: 16:30
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
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Joe Bevilacqua hosts an hour with Bernie Sanders, Spike Lee, Susan Sarandon, Harry Belafonte, Danny Glover, Sarah Silverman, Lorie Kellogg, and Tim...
- Added: Apr 17, 2016
- Length: 59:36
A tight “Audio Postcard” of migrants learning how to produce their own podcasts. On the Northern coast of France, outside of Calais, thousands of m...
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- Added: Apr 15, 2016
- Length: 03:09
- Purchases: 1
