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The war in Syria, now in its fifth year, has created a refugee crisis. Almost 4 million Syrians have fled the country, and another 7.6 million have...
- Added: Sep 10, 2015
- Length: 23:44
Progressive events in California and America threaten liberty, sovereignty and the Constitution...
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 02:50:47
The law isn’t actually written in stone. It morphs and changes with the times. What happens when laws change all of a sudden and people find themse...
- Added: Jul 14, 2015
- Length: 19:32
Bounty hunters are kind of like human bloodhounds. They’re dogged. They won’t stop until they get who they’re looking for. Frank Abramovitz is a bo...
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 20:22
Amateur sleuths armed with their own laptops, public information and a lot of spare time are working alone and in groups to crack criminal cases. S...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KVNF, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 24, 2015
- Length: 32:30
- Purchases: 4
On any given night in Minnesota, more than 4,000 youth and young adults are homeless and on their own. Avenues for Homeless Youth is a safe place t...
- Added: Apr 26, 2015
- Length: 05:29
In Florida's Miami-Dade County, tensions are mounting over a fragment of endangered pine rockland.
- Added: Feb 17, 2015
- Length: 13:31
What does life look like after experiencing major trauma?
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 11:00
What does life look like after experiencing major trauma?
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 21:09
Bringing wolves back to the West has tested the legal system’s tolerance for restoring wild places Especially when humans live nearby. This year...
- Added: Nov 07, 2014
- Length: 16:25
- Purchases: 2
We all have people in our lives who exist on the periphery of our everyday routines--people like the bus driver who takes us to work, or the cashie...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Nov 05, 2014
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 1
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Aug 14, 2014
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 1
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 09:18
- Purchases: 1
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 07:53
Nationally, American prisons release more than 650,000 people into society every year. That’s equivalent to the entire population of Memphis or Bos...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Street Roots is a non-profit news outlet that has been addressing homelessness and poverty in Portland, Oregon since 1998.
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 03:27
On April 13, 2014, former KKK member Frazier Glenn Cross pulled into a Jewish Community Center and ambushed a grandfather and grandson, killing bot...
- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 14:13
- Purchases: 4
WABE reporter Jim Burress takes us to ‘The Bluff’, a neighborhood in Atlanta where a needle exchange program has become a vital part of a strugglin...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio
- Added: Mar 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s been almost a year since former Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan -- then, his replacement -- abruptly resigned.
“It happened very quickly,...
- Added: Mar 12, 2014
- Length: 06:39
For years, powdered cocaine was D.C.'s drug of choice, but when crack hit the streets in the eighties, the city was afflicted by levels of addictio...
- Added: Mar 11, 2014
- Length: 51:30
For nearly a century we’ve been trying to read someone’s truthfulness by the way they act — through machine, or our own intuition. The police, the ...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 13:10
- Purchases: 4
Julie Eaton is the captain of the Cat Sass. She spends 6 months of the year on the water, and is ready to haul in a union.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 02, 2013
- Length: 04:43
- Purchases: 2
On every city block, there are rules. Some are unspoken, some require friendly reminders, some are enforced by the law. Is it ever OK to break the ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2013
- Length: 12:16
The nation spends billions of dollars every year training future doctors. But health care experts worry we’re still not training enough doctors to ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 06:07
Revisiting the hidden world of ALEC -- the scheme to remake America, one state house at a time. Next on Moyers & Company.
Bought by WCWP, KTRL, KUOW, WXXI Rochester, KWMR and more
- Added: Jun 19, 2013
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 24
