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In the mid-90’s, Dr. Mark Rosenberg was leading gun violence research at the CDC. Republican Arkansas Congressman Jay Dickey, the NRA’s so-called '...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and XRAY.fm
- Added: May 20, 2016
- Length: 37:50
- Purchases: 3
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
In "The White Elephant,” Yochai Maital walks us through the history of Tel Aviv’s ‘New’ Central Bus Station — a derelict eight-story behemoth and m...
- Added: Mar 27, 2016
- Length: 32:00
Host Bob Kustra talks with Tye about his book about the baseball legend, Satchel Paige.
- Added: Mar 18, 2016
- Length: 29:30
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
While world leaders wring their hands over forecasts of timid GDP growth, a growing list of visionaries around the world are collaborating to redef...
Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WSLR, 91.7 WHUS Storrs and more
- Added: Jan 26, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 10
In 1977, Martha's Vineyard was set to be lumped into a larger Cape Cod legislative district. Selectmen proposed a radical solution.
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, HowSound, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 27, 2015
- Length: 08:49
- Purchases: 4
Robust economic growth has become the Holy Grail of public policy and politics. But some economists and many scientists have come to believe growth...
Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, Bandon Community Radio, WMUU-LP, and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Nov 17, 2015
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 4
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
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
Colorado is one of many states that has tried to create a cash for recycling program, or bottle bill. However, opposition from some surprising sour...
- Added: Jul 10, 2015
- Length: 06:31
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
Exotic dancers, on-call drivers and writers might have a different name for what they do -- freelancing, part-time work and independent contracting...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 07, 2015
- Length: 14:51
- Purchases: 4
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
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'...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 2
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, it’s all about a great investment, the arts! Recently, Minnesota Citizens for t...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 31:42
- Purchases: 1
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
Freedom of speech is a right guaranteed in the first amendment of the constitution. One exception to the rule is obscenity. But determining what is...
- Added: Jan 26, 2015
- Length: 16:05
Professor Hayrettin Yucesoy explores the turbulent political and religious climate of the medieval Islamic world.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 09:29
- Purchases: 1
Butchering your own meat has become, for lack of a better word, kinda trendy. But it's also a basic survival skill that dates back to the stone age.
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Dec 10, 2014
- Length: 26:07
- Purchases: 1
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
- Added: Nov 01, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
At the corner of Sanchez and Market, Jason Dorn pulls out an iPhone. He’s at one end point of the access area for San Francisco Free WiFi, a free w...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 05:30
Author Sam Roberts reads about a civil rights pioneer indeed, from his new book. Another example of our daily 100-second show -- great for top-of-t...
- Added: Oct 01, 2014
- Length: 01:40
Political journalist Peter Geoghegan looks at the state of reconciliation and peace-making in Northern Ireland over a series of five short reports ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Aug 14, 2014
- Length: 07:20
- Purchases: 1
