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In 1964, Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman from a major party to run for President. The Republican Senator ran as a staunch hawk and expe...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, PRX Remix, WDET Detroit Public Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 07:38
- Purchases: 5
In 1940 the United States was just emerging from the shadow of the Great Depression and war loomed in Europe. Into these serious times stepped Grac...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WEZU, New Hampshire Public Radio, Troy Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 10
It began with an on-air rant by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli. It became a major political movement, with elected representatives on Capitol Hill....
- Added: Aug 29, 2012
- Length: 29:01
Because of historically cheap energy rates and lots of poorly insulated housing, Kentuckians’ average home electricity use is one of the highest in...
- Added: Jul 18, 2012
- Length: 12:49
This documentary views Michelle Alexander's "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" through the lens of California's ma...
Bought by KGNU Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KFOK-LPFM, WDSE, and WZEN.org
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
The database AidData allows the public to see where foreign aid money goes and to what purpose.
- Added: Sep 19, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Hannibal who? The story of an all-but-forgotten man who WOULD HAVE BEEN President after Lincoln's assassination, likely changing our lives.
- Added: Jun 22, 2011
- Length: 03:00
John Mark Scott and special guest Robert Dodge interview Joshua Stacker and Andrew Tabler both W & J Alums who have spent time in the Middle East
- Added: Apr 18, 2011
- Length: 36:48
This hour we sit with Lydia Davis as she reads her beautifully honed, firecracker prose. She writes in the company of Montaigne, Emerson, Proust, B...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 06, 2010
- Length: 29:00
United States Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke talks about President Obama's State of the Union commitment to double U.S. exports in 5 years. Secr...
- Added: Feb 05, 2010
- Length: 54:00
Chris Goldstein interviews the Director of Government Affairs at Americans for Safe Access about her meeting with Department of Justice Officials. ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2009
- Length: 29:32
An interview with Paul Armentano on his new book Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We driving People to Drink?
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Aug 12, 2009
- Length: 29:31
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 22, 2009
- Length: 18:36
Chris Goldstein interviews Catholic Worker James Douglass on his book JFK and the Unspeakable. The book reveals a President at odds with the milita...
- Added: Jan 17, 2009
- Length: 33:27
In the midst of non-stop campaigning, presidential candidates all need a place to rest and recharge. For Barack Obama, it's important for him to r...
- Added: Sep 22, 2008
- Length: 03:14
The story behind a documentary made in Tibet that landed the filmmakers in prison.
- Added: Sep 22, 2008
- Length: 09:06
The future of the ethanol industry is examined through the candidates' energy policies
- Added: Sep 09, 2008
- Length: 44:26
- Purchases: 3
From: Mansoor Sabbagh
This is a debate between Dean Chemerinsky and Prof. Yoo on how laws and courts have have function during the Bush Admin.
- Added: Mar 21, 2008
- Length: 57:41
From: Mansoor Sabbagh
This is a debate between Dean Chemerinsky and Prof. Yoo on how laws and courts have have function during the Bush Admin.
- Added: Mar 21, 2008
- Length: 56:07
- Added: Apr 03, 2006
- Length: 01:43
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 18, 2006
- Length: 58:47
- Added: Nov 22, 2005
- Length: 22:29
- Purchases: 2
Since surviving a suicide bombing in Jerusalem, Israeli singer-songwriter Avital Schutz has sought refuge in New York City, where's she's now wagin...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Aug 21, 2004
- Length: 04:06
- Purchases: 1
