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Television is not just news. It has become the lynchpin of the lynchmob.
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 06:00
First published on the eve of Martin Luther King Day , we turn to our preferred form of political expression, the sonnet, to acknowledge the compas...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 01:11
- Purchases: 1
As more writers return awards and honors, cynics ask if this is an outbreak of Award Returnitis
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Mahesh Sharma, India’s Culture minister, and a high school in Irving, Texas have more in common than they realize.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
We are inundated by a circus of gratuitous and salacious images in our media everyday, but one recent photograph has cut through the clutter.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 08, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
When Hardik Patel got 600,000 people to show up at a rally in Ahmedabadn in his native Gujarat everyone sat up and noticed.
But his reservation mo...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The secrecy around an illness can become the great taboo.
What Jimmy Carter did by going public was break that taboo and face the disease squarely....
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 25, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s not a kitten video or an on-air blooper or a wardrobe malfunction. Who would have thought a 15 minute debating society speech could go viral? ...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jul 28, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1948, the United Nations said seeking asylum is a basic right to seek protection from government persecution. In my state, there is now a contro...
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 04:50
Well, in my state the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting published a lengthy article about a veteran lawmaker who is strongly supporting a ...
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: 03:23
Not long before the earthquake in Nepal, I drove by yet another SUV with the bumper sticker “No child left a dime.” Then, as now, I am reminded ag...
- Added: May 09, 2015
- Length: 05:55
In the last decade Bollywood has snuck into America. Bollywood aerobics. Bollywood theme parties. It even snuck into the Oscars via Slumdog Million...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 04, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that Arizona’s 2000 law which created an Independent Commission to determine Congressional Re-d...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 07:04
In many parts of the world, torture, harassment and persecution are used to target individuals who criticize , believe, have secrets or religion...
- Added: Dec 19, 2014
- Length: 01:40
The ethical challenge for Facebook has been to re-create the ethics of community where there are real consequences for using information in a destr...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 05:49
A joint Nobel Peace Prize for Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi – a Pakistani and an Indian. Now if that doesn’t embarrass the two belligerent...
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Sandip Roy investigates the latest social media challenge and finds out what all this 'Rice' is about.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
Juan learns about the conservation efforts of WildCoast, an organization based in Imperial Beach, California, and Ensenada, Mexico, that works on b...
Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KVSC
- Added: Sep 01, 2014
- Length: 11:56
- Purchases: 2
The vision of Gorbachev now is destroyed by Vladimir Putin. A sonnet will remind us of what Gorbachev made possible and what is now lost by Putin's...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jul 07, 2014
- Length: :57
- Purchases: 1
Unexpected reverberations of Narendra Modi's victory come to Sunnyvale California.
- Added: Jun 17, 2014
- Length: 04:30
An Indian election campaign is not entirely unlike a Bollywood film. The heroes and villains might flip flop depending on your party preference. B...
- Added: Apr 21, 2014
- Length: 04:30
The controversy over Tibetan independence won't likely be over anytime soon, but is the Middle Way, promoted by the Dalai Lama himself, any way to ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Boys' State is an experiment in Democracy that a select group of high school boys attend in Maine this week. We can hope they will learn about the...
- Added: Oct 17, 2013
- Length: 06:00
International Women's Day is a time for women to acknowledge how women are discredited by others. And yes women too discredit women. All of this c...
- Added: Mar 09, 2011
- Length: 04:00
Many U.S. workers are being badly mistreated -- cheated -- by employers.
- Added: Apr 09, 2010
- Length: 04:02
