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Inside ALEC: 50 Years of Driving Extreme Policies in America with Rep. Ro Khanna & Lisa Graves
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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We’re discussing what’s being done to expose and push back against the anti-democratic practices of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or A...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Land Grant University Systems Stirs Questions With Recent Investigation
From: KRCL
Caption: Indigenous college student, Alina Sierra, Credit: Bean Yazzie / Grist
Two-way interview with Tristan Ahtone, a member of the Kiowa Tribe and Grist editor-at-large investigates the Land Grant University system.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 05:57
The declassified life of former CIA agent Valerie Plame
From: Connecticut Public (WNPR)
Series: Audacious with Chion Wolf
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On this episode of Audacious, hear about how undercover CIA operative, Valerie Plame, was outed by members of the Bush administration in 2003, and ...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 50:00
#50YearsOfHarm: Rep. Ro Khanna & Lisa Graves Call Out ALEC / The American Legislative Exchange Council
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Many people have never heard of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC – but for 50 years, the group has been the driving force behind ...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
America's Drug Price Nightmare: Public Production Can Save Lives
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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What progress is being made to tackle America’s killer drug price problem?

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK and more


  • Added: Jun 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
After Dinner, Abortion
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Marcia Nalebuff
It was 1959, and Marcia Nalebuff saw no way out.

  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 10:28
2021-08-20 Which Way Are Swing Voters Swinging on Climate?
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In early August, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report unequivocally connecting global warming and extreme weather to hum...

Bought by WGCU, KMXT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 12
210820: Which Way Are Swing Voters Swinging on Climate?, 8/20/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In early August, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report unequivocally connecting global warming and extreme weather to hum...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
Civil Rights: Plessy v Ferguson
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Civics 101
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"Separate" did not start here.

  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 22:26
Patriotic Women
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: Patriotic Women - including Patrice Michaels, Credit: Cedille
Have you seen The Notorious RBG? You can hear works in honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg, as well as American Canvas by Jennifer Higdon, and The...

Bought by KMUN, High Plains Public Radio, WETS, KMUN, KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Gownsburg: The Messy Child Born of a Dysfunctional Couple
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
The Shell Game of Digital Liberation
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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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
JIMMY CARTER stuns China's Leader
From: Peter Johnson
Series: THE AUTHOR'S CORNER ON PUBLIC RADIO: SEPTEMBER, 2015
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With the former President recently noting he has cancer, his term in office and humanitarian work since then are getting attention anew. This surpr...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
Roosevelt's Near-Assassination...
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: JUNE 2015
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Which Roosevelt, you might ask? Find out as author Michael Wolraich reads from his bracing new book. Good cocktail hour fodder. Just a sample readi...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
The Freedom Riders of 1961
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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The Freedom Riders of 1961 were upholding the law. So why were they being arrested as soon as they got off the buses in Jackson, Mississippi? KFAI'...

Bought by Hark! and WDSE


  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
Reversal of Gay fortune
From: KALW
Caption: Aditya and Michael, Credit: Gilles Delage
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
Speaker Boehner's Rastafarian Daughter
From: David Feldman
Series: Five Guests, Thirty Minutes
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Not so shocking news about John Boehner's alcoholism from Down With Tyranny's Howie Klein who also tells us about Boehner's Rastafarian daughter.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2013
  • Length: 05:29
Whitey Bulger and Billy Bulger: The Tale of Two Brothers
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: Alcatraz Prison, where Whitey Bulger was incarcerated from 1959 to 1962., Credit: cliff1066/Flickr
What many people outside Massachusetts don't know is that the brother of reputed Boston mob boss Whitey Bulger, Billy Bulger, was similarly powerfu...

  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 02:24
Generation Putin - Hour Special
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
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"Generation Putin" is an hourlong special on young people and politics in the former Soviet Union. Embeddable on SoundCloud, too.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KCPW Salt Lake City, WGBH Radio Boston, KVSC, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Dec 27, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 55
Las Historias Escondidas de Sunland Park
From: Kent Paterson
Caption: Sunland Park, New Mexico, Credit: Samat Jain
In 2011 and 2012, the small New Mexico border community of Sunland Park made regional headlines and national news for its political scandals. Delvi...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
Gandhi and the Unspeakable
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Mohandas Gandhi, Credit: Orbis Book cover Roberta Savage
The Father of India was dead. Killed by a man he’d known for years. The year was 1948, the dawn of India’s independence from Great Britain. In his...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 28:52
A Bitter Harvest: California, Marijuana, and the New Jim Crow
From: Chris Moore-Backman
Series: Bringing Down the New Jim Crow
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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
Writers on a New England Stage: Chris Matthews
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
Caption: Virginia Prescott and Chris Matthews, Credit: David Murray
The TV personality and former journalist talks about his new book, "Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero."

  • Added: Dec 08, 2011
  • Length: 49:30
Anne Kaner-Roth with Project 515
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we have a guest with a person who is excited to help MN move forward in relationship equality. We sit down with Anne Kaner-...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 15:30
Do You Hear The People Sing - entire song
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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At 1:00 p.m. on the 13th day of protests in Madison, Wisconsin, hundreds of singers and instrumentalists suddenly burst into song. The "Les Miserab...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 27, 2011
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1