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Caption: Steven Petrow (R) and Jay Petrow (L) kiss their sister Julie Petrow-Cohen. Julie used New Jersey’s medical aid in dying law after a six-year battle with ovarian cancer., Credit: Courtesy of the Petrow family
A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2024
  • Length: 21:12

  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5

  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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In this episode, we explore the persistent challenge of how to ensure that everyone has adequate housing. We discuss why the U.S. faces these issue...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
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The Affordable Care Act faces yet another in a long string of legal challenges. Last Thursday's ruling, by a conservative federal judge who has tar...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 14:07
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We dig into three research papers to make sense of what will happen to 15 million people set to lose their Medicaid over the next year.

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 16:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Later this year the Supreme Court is set to decide whether to close a legal pathway that Medicaid recipients have used for more than 50 years. This...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 11:27
Caption: Screenshot of SF Chronicle's Interactive Real Estate Map, Credit: San Francisco Chronicle
In this episode, we explore the Bay Area housing market, and how mass corporate ownership of homes and apartments throughout the region affects com...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
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Why has a little-known program designed to help hospitals and clinics that serve low-income people become one of the most controversial health poli...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2022
  • Length: 16:16
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A personal and political fight to keep abortion legal in Michigan is in full swing — in the courts, on the campaign trail, at the ballot box this N...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 04:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Liana Wolk (L) and Owen Marshall at their wedding in May 2019. Owen is one of 5 million Americans stuck in the “family glitch.” , Credit: Molly Haley
The Biden administration is trying to close a gap in the Affordable Care Act that blocks 5 million people from getting affordable health care.

  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 18:40
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We explore the high cost of insulin in the U.S. and Congress’ latest push to address those prices with Kaiser Health News reporter Bram Sable-Smith.

  • Added: May 02, 2022
  • Length: 16:53
Caption: Embrace Complexity To Overcome Polarization? Discussing a Way Out with Dr. Peter Coleman of The Difficult Conversations Lab
Police reform, gun violence, global warming... When did you last have a civil, informative, productive conversation with someone of differing opini...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:10
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Co-host Ray Suarez explores one of the underlying tensions that fuels the Israeli-Palestinian crisis by focusing on a single house in East Jerusale...

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  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Episode 4: The Senate Filibuster: Weapon of Obstruction or Shield Against Polarization?
Our guests on Season 2, Episode 4 are two of the most informed writers on this topic: Adam Jentleston, former Deputy Chief of Staff to Democratic M...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2021
  • Length: 37:40
Caption: Headshot: Glenn Kessler
In this episode, we talk with Glenn Kessler, editor… and chief writer of the Washington Post Fact Checker… and credited with doing the first offici...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
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In this episode, we talk with John Wood, Jr., national ambassador for Braver Angels, an organization also working to build relationships across the...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
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In this episode, we seek to make sense of the recent New York Times articles about the President’s tax returns. We also explore the U.S. tax system...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Episode 7
Did you hear the one about bipartisanship? Two opposing congressmen walk into a town hall…and civil discussion breaks out.

  • Added: Aug 27, 2020
  • Length: 26:08
Caption: Dr. Amber Boydstun
In part 2 of my interview with Dr. Boydstun, we explore social media and our own behavior as media audiences and consumers… AND people connected to...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Logo: News In Context, Credit: Joyce Cheng
Journalists turned professors Anne Belden of Santa Rosa Junior College and Ed Beebout of Sonoma State University, discuss how media framing of the ...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
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Wages and the living wage is our topic this program. Recently, there has been quite a bit of attention given to what we earn, the disparity of wage...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2018
  • Length: 51:26
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Is Turkey now on a charm offensive with the European Union? British Prime Minister Theresa May tries to shake up her government…but has it worked? ...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
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During his first official visit to Utah, President Trump announced the largest cutback to national monument land in U.S. history. Bears Ears and G...

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2017
  • Length: 13:38
  • Purchases: 1
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What does "21st Century policing" actually mean, and how would a forward-thinking department be different than what most jurisdictions have now? Ro...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:25