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Bought by WETD, WLRN, KRDP, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 24, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
The US Supreme Court issued a series of decisions that teens can’t be sentenced to death and they can’t be given an automatic life sentence without...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 29:43
- Purchases: 1
The U.S. chose to link God, money, business, and government. But it’s important to remember that America was originally established to keep God ind...
- Added: Aug 17, 2016
- Length: 24:45
Watch Out For The Taxes On Those Medals, Michael Phelps! The Next Big Bang In Real Estate Investing, How A Clinton Presidency Could Affect Your Fin...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Aug 17, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Watch Out For The Taxes On Those Medals, Michael Phelps! The Next Big Bang In Real Estate Investing, How A Clinton Presidency Could Affect Your Fin...
Bought by WETD, KRDP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WLRN
- Added: Aug 17, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Bail is supposed to allow a person accused of a crime to put some money up as a type of collateral - a promise they will return for their court dat...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 27:06
France has been under a “state of emergency” since November, raising questions about the appropriate balance between security and civil liberties.
- Added: Jun 08, 2016
- Length: 25:50
When should a judge step aside? As more and more money floods into judicial elections across the nation, states are grappling with this question. P...
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 30:36
There are 28 judicial emergencies on federal courts throughout the country. A judicial emergency is when there's been a vacancy on the court for to...
- Added: May 03, 2016
- Length: 22:00
Domestic oil drilling offers private landowners the promise of riches in their own backyard. But what if you don’t want to live next door to an oil...
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 22:39
Beginning in 1907, states in the US began to forcibly sterilize over 60,000 Americans -- people considered by scientists to be “unfit” -- the menta...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- Added: Mar 22, 2016
- Length: 22:29
- Purchases: 1
Professors Derek Hirst and Steven Zwicker discuss the life and work of Andrew Marvell.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 16:04
In Kansas, public schools are at the heart of a debate about how much money the state should budget for education -- a debate that comes down to a ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 32:54
All over the country, critics argue that ID laws discourage voter participation--particularly among poor and minority voters. This is particularly ...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 24:44
In 2012 President Obama took matters into his own hands. His administration signed a memo addressing all branches of the Department of Homeland Sec...
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 23:50
In the U.S., juries are often seen as democracy in action. Twelve men and women are asked to hear an entire case, and ultimately, decide another pe...
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 23:13
Imagine electronic music onstage without being welded to a keyboard. Imagine if a gesture could trigger a string section, a melody, a drum riff. No...
- Added: Oct 16, 2015
- Length: 58:55
Marijuana dispensaries in Victoria, BC occupy legal borderlands. Their very existence is contrary to the law of the land, but the law isn't crackin...
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 27:51
Come with us as we deconstruct popular understandings of the death penalty through the stories of lives caught up in the web of state-sponsored kil...
Bought by KTSW 89.9
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 59:59
- Purchases: 1
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
The Freedom Riders of 1961 were upholding the law. So why were they being arrested as soon as they got off the buses in Jackson, Mississippi? KFAI'...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
Reveal for March is here Air window is March 14 to April 10. We look at the power of a photo, what happens when a VA doctor hands out opiates to v...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WVTF, Interlochen Public Radio, KISU, Spokane Public Radio and more
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 96
Historian David Hollinger discusses the split between the Evangelical and Ecumenical branches of the Protestant church.
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 12:13
