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Can China Erase History – and Democracy – in Hong Kong
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Life is changing quickly for people in Hong Kong

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer’
From: Tradeoffs
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
Ozempic Hype Forces Employer Calls on Obesity Coverage
From: Tradeoffs
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Employers are facing a big dilemma: How do they pay for the new highly effective and popular obesity medications without breaking the bank? This we...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 21:56
The Latest Threat to the Affordable Care Act
From: Tradeoffs
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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
The Treacherous Transition Awaiting Millions Losing Their Medicaid
From: Tradeoffs
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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
20230224: Housing Density as a Climate Lever with Scott Wiener, 2/24/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The lack of affordable housing in the U.S. has contributed to a homelessness crisis and has forced people to move farther away from urban centers. ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
One Golden State, Two Democratic Parties: These Not So United States (CA Part 1)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: One Golden State, Two Democratic Parties: These Not So United States (CA Part 1), Credit: The Purple Principle
Has the California dream given way to a cost of living nightmare? NPR veteran and LA resident Barbara Bogaev co-hosts with Rob Pease for an in-dept...

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 35:03
  • Purchases: 1
What is the Future of Abortion in the Americas?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray Suarez talks to three women north and south of the U.S. border to understand how overturning Roe v Wade would fit into the region's reproductiv...

Bought by WJCT, Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jun 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Georgia On All Our Minds: These Not So United States
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Georgia On All Our Minds: These Not So United States, Credit: The Purple Principle
All political roads lead to Georgia these days. The Peach State was so pivotal in the 2020 election of Joe Biden and the 2021 runoff election of tw...

  • Added: May 24, 2022
  • Length: 32:50
Fixing the Obamacare 'Glitch' That Pushed One Couple to Divorce
From: Tradeoffs
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
Fixing the Obamacare 'Glitch' That Pushed One Couple to Divorce - Two-Way
From: Tradeoffs
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: 03:47
2022-05-13 Russ Feingold on Biodiversity, Climate and The Courts
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Russ Feingold became a household name co-authoring the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, more commonly known as McCain-Feingold. It’s the only major ...

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  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 10
20220513: Russ Feingold on Biodiversity, Climate and The Courts, 5/13/2022
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Russ Feingold became a household name co-authoring the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, more commonly known as McCain-Feingold. It’s the only major ...

  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
Politically Persuadable But Focused on Jobs? Hispanic American Swing Voters (Part 1)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Politically Persuadable But Focused on Jobs? Hispanic American Swing Voters (Part 1), Credit: The Purple Principle
Is a large and growing segment of Hispanic American voters now leaning independent? That’s the operative question in this first episode on Hispanic...

  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 30:51
Is Texas the Future of America? These Not So United States (TX Finale)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Is Texas the Future of America? These Not So United States (TX Finale), Credit: The Purple Principle
The Purple Principle brings its seven-part series on politics and identity in the already huge, yet fast-growing Lone Star State to a conclusion wi...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 27:16
Growth, Diversity & One Party Politics? These Not So United States (TX Part 3)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Growth, Diversity & One Party Politics? (TX Part 3), Credit: The Purple Principle
Is democracy still democracy when one party wins all the elections? That’s a question we’ll be asking around the country on our state level identi...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 32:57
Strongest Identity of Them Y’all? These Not So United States (TX Part 2)
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Strongest Identity of Them Y’all? These Not So United States (TX Part 2), Credit: The Purple Principle
Texas has long had one of the most powerful and vocal identities of any American state. But how’s that unique Texas pride faring under the homogeni...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:43
War and Peace
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In an episode originally aired in April, we look at what happens when you think you know what you’re doing… and don’t listen to the people you are ...

Bought by WKSU, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Dec 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
In Putin’s Shadow
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we look at democracy movements fighting to survive in the shadow of a Russian government that’s determined to consolidate power.

Bought by KUOW, Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Constitution Day Special: The Constitution & The Bill of Rights
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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In honor of Constitution Day, Civics 101, the podcast refresher course on how our democracy works, shares the story of the two most important docum...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, Prairie Public, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WITF, and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 13, 2021
  • Length: 51:32
  • Purchases: 5
Monopoly Capitalism: At The Breaking Point?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Monopoly capitalism may be on its last legs! Economist Michael Hudson joins us to say his predictions on the Trump budget have come true and seem t...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Aug 08, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Job Talk Episode 58
From: Paul Russell
Caption: http://jobtalkradio.org, Credit: Job Talk LLC
A check-in with one of our most popular interviews, Jeff Clarke. Historian, actor and host of Public Broadcasting’s Saving Grace. Learn how he turn...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2018
  • Length: 18:15
Locking Up Our Own
From: Sally Tucker
Series: Thinking CAP
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James Forman Jr., a former Washington, D.C., public defender, Yale University professor, and author of the Pulitzer Prize winner and The New York’s...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 24:54
Prison Justice and Transit Justice
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Laura Everett
The problem of outsourcing of education and mental health services in prisons to evangelical Christian ministries and the challenge transit violenc...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 57:59
  • Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio, Judith McGeary Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Do you know about the “soil-food-web?” Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Judith McG...

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1