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On Borrowed Time
From: Mateo Schimpf
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A tech reporter’s precarious race to stay in the US.

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  • Added: May 10, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
When the Press Becomes A Casualty of War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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The dangers of conflict reporting past and present

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
A World in Turmoil: 2023's Defining Moments
From: Mateo Schimpf
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That's a wrap.

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  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Systemic Challenges of Addressing Homelessness, with Tony Sparks
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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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
Pollinators, Pesticides, and Politics with NRDC's Dan Raichel
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Attorney Dan Raichel talks about the scourge of neonic pesticides and what to do about them.

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 2
Putin Meets Kim: A Handshake Worth A Thousand Guns?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Desperate times call for desperate measures

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The GOP, Gun Violence, and a Great Plan
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
If you're getting nervous these days about going to the grocery or taking your kid to the ballpark for fear of getting shot, rest easy. Republicans...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
Wagner’s Wake: Rubles, Rebels and Russia’s Unraveling
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Coups from Moscow to Niamey

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  • Added: Sep 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Putin’s Prigozhin Trap, with Anne Applebaum
From: Mateo Schimpf
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He was on the plane, right?

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Chuck Collins: Disturbing The Very Comfortable
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Chuck Collins
The novelist David Foster Wallace once said, “Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” This week on Sea Change ...

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  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million - Highway Robbery: How a Small Town Traffic Trap Became A Legal Black Hole
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sandra Harris, photographed in her home. , Credit: Amarr Croskey
On today's show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a small town in Alabama, where an eager new police chief, unsuspecting m...

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  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for August 23, 2023
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Campaign to Disqualify Trump from 2024 Election Ballot Gains Traction; Geo...

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  • Added: Aug 23, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Agitation to a System: Trans Resistance in Louisiana
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hands holding up public comment cards in the Louisiana Senate chamber on Pride Day at the Capitol 2023 in Baton Rouge, LA., Credit: Raegan Labat
Louisiana, like many other states, has seen a slew of anti-trans and anti-LGBTQ+ bills introduced this legislative session. Sophie Ziegler joins to...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Mutinies, Memes and Mind Games
From: Mateo Schimpf
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What do Tetris and Twitter have in common?

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  • Added: Jul 12, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Putting Out the Planetary Fire with Mark Dunlea
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Capitalism is standing in the way of progress on our most critical environmental issue.

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  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 3
Former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin on Meaningful Reform of Our Criminal Justice System
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In Part Two of my conversation with Chesa Boudin, we explore how his experiences as a child have informed his approach to criminal justice, and his...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Post-Roe Abortion Access from The Response Part 1
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our friends from the podcast The Response bring us their piece Abortion Access and Reproductive Justice in a Post-Roe Landscape, plus a quick updat...

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Impacts of Mass Corporate Real Estate Ownership on Communities and Affordability
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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
IE: Inside Europe, 10/28/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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On today's show - All change: The UK gets its third Prime Minister in three months. Cashing in: Kazakhstan reinvents itself as a safe haven for c...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for September 21, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Threat to Democracy Looms as Supreme Court Set to Hear Moore v. Harper Cas...

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
“To Serve & Protect” Whom? Alec Karakatsanis on Copaganda
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Alec Karakatsanis
What comes to mind when you hear the words “crime” and “safety?” For many, these words evoke images of poor people stealing things, or police enfor...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
RL Miller of Climate Hawks Vote on the Inflation Reduction Act
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: RL Miller
Are you weary of having to care about where headline-seeking Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema land on important topics? Well, according to t...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
The impact of fentanyl on communities, with SF Substance Use Expert Dr.Phillip Coffin
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore the sharp increase in fentanyl deaths across the country, including in San Francisco and the Bay Area, which had thus f...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for April 27, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Congressional Passage of War Powers Act Can End U.S. Complicity in Saudi-l...

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  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for April 6, 2022
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Diplomacy is Only Path to Decrease Danger of Ukraine War Escalation & Nucl...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3