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Monopoly capitalism may be on its last legs! This week, economist Michael Hudson joins us to say his predictions on the Trump budget have come true...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Apr 04, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Universities are paternalistic and infantilizing and municipalities enable them. This translates loosely into "If you're father says it's okay..." ...
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 57:25
Last month novelist and social critic Curtis White joined us to discuss his latest book We, Robots: Staying Human in the Age of Big Data. One of hi...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 58:03
Our program today is "The Shell Game of Digital Liberation."
Segment One: The Amazonization of Everything. We’ll take a look at what Jeff Bezos ha...
- Added: Oct 27, 2015
- Length: 59:44
AARP has done a feature on best places to retire for years, and Time magazine does a similar analysis on “best places to live.” But nobody has don...
- Added: Mar 21, 2015
- Length: 02:30
In the past few years, the White House and the Kremlin have sparred over Syria, the Winter Olympics, and now, the crisis in Ukraine. It can be temp...
- Added: Feb 13, 2015
- Length: 54:00
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Legal scholar Bruce Ackerman talks about how presidents from Lincoln to Obama have used their military powers. This segment is from the BackStory e...
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 09:22
August 14 marks the day in 1945 when President Truman announced Japan’s surrender in World War II. The war was over, but now Japan had to be rebuil...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 08, 2014
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 1
Recent estimates suggest that more than 50% of Americans will suffer from a “mental disorder” at some point in their lifetime, making the once “abn...
Bought by WEZU, WXDU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and WRIR
- Added: Jul 18, 2014
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 4
Two and one half minute commentary on tax inequality between working people and wall streeters. Contains vocal by Merle Haggard.
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 02:30
30-second promo for BackStory episode, "On the Money: A History of American Currency," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/dat...
Bought by WUFT
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 1
Should we be engineering seeds and patenting genes? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview wit...
- Added: Dec 27, 2013
- Length: 28:00
30-second promo for BackStory episode, "Cheers and Jeers: Alcohol in America [rebroadcast]," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific ti...
Bought by WHYY and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Dec 24, 2013
- Length: :30
- Purchases: 2
On December 8th the Indian Supreme Court reinstated Section 377 of the Penal Code making sex against the order of nature a crime again. But India s...
- Added: Dec 17, 2013
- Length: 04:30
15 years ago this month, then-President Bill Clinton was impeached by the US House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice. The c...
Bought by WUFT, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRPI, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 6
30-second promo for BackStory episode, "Shocked and Appalled: A History of Scandal," with 5-second music bed at end for station-specific time/date ...
- Added: Dec 03, 2013
- Length: :30
What is a cooperative business model and how can it support both economic viability and social responsibility? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Regi...
- Added: Nov 22, 2013
- Length: 28:00
An in-depth interview with Vietnam vet and gay activist, Danny Meyer, who talks about LGBT people in the military, and how his experience as the ch...
- Added: Nov 20, 2013
- Length: 27:30
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
The Guys share a little-known story about that time Stalin coined the term “American Exceptionalism"
Bought by WOUB, Radio Newark, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 23, 2013
- Length: 06:32
- Purchases: 3
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian William P. Jones talks with host Brian Balogh about the origins of the march idea, first floated during a campaign against employment dis...
Bought by Radio Newark and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 09:17
- Purchases: 2
Radio Curious revisits a two-part 1999 conversation with Mike Frost, a retired Canadian spy and author of “Spy World: Inside the Canadian and Amer...
- Added: Jul 09, 2013
- Length: 58:02
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
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Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Ed Ayers talks with historian Walter Johnson about the rise of steamboats in the 19th Century, and how the cotton economy fueled an ever more ...
Bought by Radio Newark, KHNS, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 08:58
- Purchases: 3
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Sociologist Allan Horwitz discusses psychiatric diagnosis in the late 20th Century, and our changing perceptions of “sadness” and “depression.”
Bought by Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and WEZU
- Added: Jun 03, 2013
- Length: 05:44
- Purchases: 3
Deadly foodborne illness outbreaks seem to be on the rise, and one attorney has taken the lead in the fight to defend the ill, and support legislat...
- Added: May 31, 2013
- Length: 28:00
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Brian Balough explores the meaning of "wartime" with Mary Dudziak, an historian at Emory University's School of Law. Well after V-J Day, Dudz...
Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, KBRP Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 06, 2013
- Length: 10:50
- Purchases: 4
