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Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mark & Deborah Parker
When someone spends their time flattering their boss or superior, they’re known as a sycophant. It’s also called the “slime effect.” Although it wa...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with civil liberties attorney Burt Neuborne about his book "Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment"
From: Out of Bounds
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Civil liberties attorney, educator, author of "Madison’s Music: On Reading the First Amendment"

  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
Life of the Law #110: In Studio San Quentin: Unequal Protection
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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What does color of skin have to do with equal access to justice in America? The Equal Protection Clause, part of the 14th Amendment to the Constitu...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2017
  • Length: 48:40
A Curse Upon the Nation (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
BHM Special: A Curse Upon the Nation (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, WUGA (part of GPB), Georgia Public Broadcasting, WNSB, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 6
BHM Special: A Curse Upon the Nation (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism

Bought by WLPR , KPSQ-LP, WLPR , WNSB, and WVAS


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
A Curse Upon the Nation (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: :30
A Curse Upon the Nation (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism - Responding to Birth of a Natio...

Bought by WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCWP, WRGY, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 6
A Curse Upon the Nation (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How today's racial rhetoric borrows from the past - Author Paula Seniors on her mother's turn to militant activism

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WXDU, KWMR, WNSB and more


  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 15
Episode 65: The Kingfish
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In 1928, Huey P. Long became the youngest Governor in Louisiana’s history. He bragged that he bought lawmakers like “sacks of potatoes, shuffled ‘e...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 23, 2017
  • Length: 26:14
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: Immigration Then and Now: From German Iowa to Today's Refugees (Part 2)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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While immigrants have long fueled the American experiment, passionate debate about the pros and cons of immigration are nothing new. The rhetoric o...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 15, 2017
  • Length: 27:03
  • Purchases: 1
From Kremlin to Kremlin (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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We may be in a period of historic closeness between Russia and the United States, but there was a time when hundreds of African-American scientists...

Bought by KENW, Radio Newark, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 4
Building a Wall: Church & State in America (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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The story of Thomas Jefferson's secular utopia - Biblical scholars fact-check politicians' use of the bible - New technologies change evangelical w...

Bought by WNSB, KKRN, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Building a Wall: Church & State in America (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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The story of Thomas Jefferson's secular utopia - Biblical scholars fact-check politicians' use of the bible - New technologies change evangelical w...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KALH, WTJU and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 11
Building a Wall: Church & State in America (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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The story of Thomas Jefferson's secular utopia - Biblical scholars fact-check politicians' use of the bible - New technologies change evangelical w...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WNSB, KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Pulitzer 100: Embers of War (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Pulitzer Award-winning historian Fred Logevall on the Vietnam War - Interviewing WWII veterans before it's too late - The lesser-known history of W...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 54:02
Pulitzer 100: Embers of War (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Reading about the past sometimes gives us the impression that the Vietnam War was inevitable. But Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
Pulitzer100: If You Like The Truth (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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An interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Rick Atkinson.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WJCT, Harford Community Radio, WMNR, KMUN and more


  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Campaign Theme Songs
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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The stories behind the songs candidates used during their campaigns.

Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, KSRQ, WYAP, and 89.1 Trapper Radio KNWT


  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Michael Waldman, author of "The Fight to Vote"
From: Janelle Brown
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The struggle for the right to vote isn't over yet. Host Bob Kustra talks with Michael Waldman about his timely new book.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2016
  • Length: 30:30
Pulitzer100: Embers of War (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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- Pulitzer Award-winning historian Fred Logevall on the Vietnam War - Interviewing WWII veterans before it's too late - The lesser-known history of...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer100: Embers of War (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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- Pulitzer Award-winning historian Fred Logevall on the Vietnam War - Interviewing WWII veterans before it's too late - The lesser-known history of...

Bought by WCNY, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, KWMR, KWSO, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 9
Pulitzer100: Embers of War (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Reading about the past sometimes gives us the impression that the Vietnam War was inevitable. But Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall...

Bought by WJCT, WLPR , WUGA (part of GPB), WFHB, KRDP and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2016
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
The Great Divide (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Are betting markets are a more accurate predictor than election polls? -The influence of Millennials on the upcoming election. -The vast majorit...

Bought by WCNY, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
Banned From a Country
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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What does it take to get banned from an entire country? Find out in this week's episode.

Bought by WOUB, KSKQ, KSRQ, WYAP, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6