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Face-to-Face Diplomacy (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Insights from neuroscience on international diplomacy - How the US defense budget prevents strategic thinking - Why we have a vice president (and w...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, WCQS, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Are Diplomatic Trips Worth It? (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Even as President Trump returns from two high profile international tours, digital technologies seem ever more like they could replace costly diplo...

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 3
A Nation of Immigrants, Part 2
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
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America has a long, long, long history of embracing immigrants one day, generally because it needed them for economic reasons, a variation of slave...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 1
Shifting Sands (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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How the US is getting it wrong in the Middle East - The far-right takeover of Eastern Europe - Tracking foreign aid - Gaming out the rise and fall ...

Bought by WLPR and WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Shifting Sands (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How the US is getting it wrong in the Middle East - The far-right takeover of Eastern Europe

Bought by WJCT, New Hampshire Public Radio, WVAS, WLPR , KWMR and more


  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 13
Shifting Sands (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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How the US is getting it wrong in the Middle East - The far-right takeover of Eastern Europe - Tracking foreign aid - Gaming out the rise and fall ...

Bought by WCNY, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more


  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 9
The Attack Party of Bulgaria
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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While Marine le Pen failed to win the recent French presidential election, her increased popularity is just the most recent example of how far righ...

Bought by KENW and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 2
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
Joby Warrick, author of "Black Flags"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Joby Warrick about his book, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 30:01
Mid East for Trump
From: Hebah Fisher
Series: Kerning Cultures
Caption: The Seattle Republican viewing party of the first presidential debate in September - Washington, USA., Credit: Hebah Fisher
KC Short. A US election special: meet the Americans of Middle Eastern descent supporting Trump

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 10, 2016
  • Length: 14:04
  • Purchases: 1
David E. Hoffman, author of "The Billion Dollar Spy"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Hoffman about his nonfiction story of Cold War espionage and betrayal.

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 30:31
  • Purchases: 1
Joby Warrick, author of "Black Flags"
From: Janelle Brown
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Washington Post reporter Joby Warrick about his book, "Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS"

  • Added: Apr 08, 2016
  • Length: 30:06
Pathways for Peace (Half Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Many displaced Iraqis returning to their homes are finding landmines and booby-traps left for them by ISIS fighters. One woman opened her refrigera...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, KKRN, and WLIW


  • Added: Feb 26, 2016
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 4
Tri-color Profile
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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I will not overlay my Facebook profile picture with the French tricolor.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
When Countries Cheat
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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Political scientist Matt Gabel on how international courts work - and why countries should sometimes be allowed to bend the rules.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 11:24
The Human Problem Facing Global Cities
From: Hold That Thought
Series: Going Global
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An urban studies professor explores some of the problems shared by cities around the globe.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 10:00
Vivek Maru and Namati, Bringing Legal Empowerment Across the Globe
From: Arch Street Press
Series: Innovate Podcast
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Vivek Maru discusses how his time studying Gandhi and volunteering for grassroots organizations in India led to his role as the CEO and founder of ...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 52:09
Chamizal: A Town Between Two Borders
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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For more than a century, the Rio Grande has been the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But rivers can move.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 2
Unspun Interviews Judyth Vary-Baker, Lee Harvey Oswalds Lover and Confidant
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Judyth Vary-Baker
Unspun talks with Lee Harvey Oswald's lover and confidant, Judyth Vary-Baker. Judyth is an author, artist, poet, teacher and social scientist. 35...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 59:58
Ukraine and the New Divide between the United States and Russia
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Ethics in Security Bulletin
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David Speedie interviews Dr. Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on how the Uk...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 35:25
Fritz Pleitgen: Lessons from the Stasi
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Fritz Pleitgen is a journalist who covered the Stasi in East Germany during the 1980s. He explains how one lives and acts in a surveillance state.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 1
Iran and Nuclear Proliferation: Update with Joseph Cirincione
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Ethics in Security Bulletin
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Joseph Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares Fund, discusses the status and prospects for the ongoing P5+1 talks in Vienna on Iran's nuclear pr...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 33:06
The Chomsky Challenge
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Chomsky's Challenge, Credit: book jacket cover
Noam Chomsky is a polarizing figure in politics and foreign affairs. Although he is a pioneering scholar in the field of linguistics, he is better...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Jan 12, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
WorldCanvass: The Rise of Chinese Public Opinion (Part 3)
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Leading scholars from the field of Chinese public opinion research discuss the influence of public opinion on political reform, political trust, an...

  • Added: Oct 26, 2013
  • Length: 24:08
Modi the Magnificent
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Boy in Modi mask
Sandip Roy takes in the theater of Modi's first large scale political rally in New Delhi.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1