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Episode 102 - This Week in Drugs Visits Marijuana Today
From: Shea Gunther
Series: Marijuana Today
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Host Kris Lotlikar reflects on recent current events and shares a portion of the podcast "This Week in Drugs". Produced by Shea Gunther.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 54:13
The Sharing Economy? (Short)
From: Robert Raymond
Series: Upstream
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In this first episode of Upstream, a radio documentary series, we look at the darker side of the "sharing economy" and explore the conditions that ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 14:59
  • Purchases: 1
ALLAN WOLPER TALKS TO KEN THOMPSON
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
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Ken Thompson made history in 2013 when he became the first African American to be elected Brooklyn District Attorney. He won international attentio...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:06
The Innocence Project (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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There’s an undeniable problem with our criminal justice system, but one organization offers some hope. To date, The Innocence Project has exonerate...

Bought by KENW, WTJU, KCMJ Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KPVL and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 7
Steven Pagones on Conversations with Allan Wolper
From: Conversations with Allan Wolper
Series: Conversations with Allan Wolper, WBGO.ORG
Caption: Steven Pagones
In 1987, Steven Pagones, a former assistant district attorney in Dutchess County, New York was accused of being one of six white men who raped and ...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 30:03
WIN Labor Report: December 6, 2013
From: Workers Independent News
Caption: The Voice for Working People
Fast Food Workers Strike in Over 100 Cities

  • Added: Dec 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
Episode 23: Morality 2.0
From: Decode DC
Series: DecodeDC
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Which is worse: breaking the law to leak classified secrets? Or keeping quiet about what could be a violation of Americans' constitutional rights?...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2013
  • Length: 26:56
Episode 22: Open and Shut Congress
From: Decode DC
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The government shutdown may be over, but has anything really changed? Andrea talks to Patti Daniels of Vermont Public Radio about the problems that...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 17:30
Charmil Davis Covering the President of the United States
From: New Jersey Radio Exchange Network
Series: North Jersey Radio Series
Caption: Charmil Davis with Barack Obama
North Jersey Radio Network Washington Correspondent Charmil Davis covering President Obama at the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Dinner 2013.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 05:15
Episode 21: Justice in Shut Down
From: Decode DC
Series: DecodeDC
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Budget battles. Sequestration. And now, shut down. The political mess in Washington has consequences far from Capitol Hill. Andrea talks to a Chief...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Oct 04, 2013
  • Length: 19:11
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 20: In Other News...
From: Decode DC
Series: DecodeDC
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When the news becomes obsessed with a new story every week, do you ever wonder what's being pushed OUT of the headlines? Andrea Seabrook talks to a...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 21, 2013
  • Length: 46:06
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 19: Syria's Considerations
From: Decode DC
Series: DecodeDC
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War-drums and peace-cries can drown out more considered implications of US intervention in Syria. We talk about the haunting ghosts of recent wars,...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 26:48
Episode 18: The Paperwork Reduction Act
From: Decode DC
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Andrea talks to tech CEO and former Presidential Innovation Fellow Clay Johnson about the Paperwork Reduction Act, OIRA, and unintended consequences.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2013
  • Length: 16:33
Episode 17: Wonderland
From: Decode DC
Series: DecodeDC
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In an excerpt from DecodeDC's first live episode, Andrea interviews reporter Todd Zwillich on the pressures of covering Congress and doing it well.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2013
  • Length: 24:54
Episode 16: Belly of the Beast
From: Decode DC
Series: DecodeDC
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Andrea talks more intimately with longtime Congressman and current statesman, Lee Hamilton, about the biggest problem he sees in today's politics: ...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2013
  • Length: 22:13
Episode 15: What's Wrong
From: Decode DC
Series: DecodeDC
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Andrea Seabrook introduces America's best pUNdit -- a man you'll rarely hear from on the daily news, but who knows more than almost anyone about wh...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 27, 2013
  • Length: 14:43
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 14: A Red Scare
From: Decode DC
Series: DecodeDC
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Rich Tafel was deeply involved in one of the most sweeping changes of recent decades -- the social acceptance of Gay Americans. What's more, he's a...

Bought by WXDU, KUOW, and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Jun 07, 2013
  • Length: 21:27
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 13: Documenting Immigrants
From: Decode DC
Series: DecodeDC
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DecodeDC collects the stories of those most often left out of the immigration debate: actual immigrants.

Bought by KUER, Louisville Public Media, WXDU, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KUT


  • Added: May 24, 2013
  • Length: 31:04
  • Purchases: 5
Episode 12: Canta Y No Llores
From: Decode DC
Series: DecodeDC
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In the first of a two-part series on immigration, DecodeDC looks at how humor can get closer to a problem than political talking points ever could....

Bought by KUER and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 19:37
  • Purchases: 2
"Social Media and the Law"
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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An Indiana University student was arrested and charged with felony intimidation after posting to Twitter what police determined was a threatening m...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 08:50
Episode 11 -- Paint By Numbers
From: Decode DC
Series: DecodeDC
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Let's start from the beginning.

Bought by WXDU, KUT, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 28, 2013
  • Length: 20:05
  • Purchases: 3
Episode 10 -- A Kind of Republican
From: Decode DC
Series: DecodeDC
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Jim Kolbe, a Republican member of the House of Representatives from 1985-2003, is a political outlier.

Bought by KUT and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 26:58
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 8 -- There's a Plan For That
From: Decode DC
Series: DecodeDC
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Big and long-term plans SOUND great in politics, but do they really work?

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 18:13
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 7 -- Cerfing the Net
From: Decode DC
Series: DecodeDC
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Internet co-creator and now Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf on the net's origins and future.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 24:34
  • Purchases: 1