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When politicians talk about "working across the aisle", they talk about it as if they are endorsing a great ethic. But working across the aisle is...
- Added: May 01, 2014
- Length: 07:04
Winning is the short view of Political gamesmanship.Fake news creation is part and parcel of it. Environmental contamination is the long view when ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 07:50
Millions of Americans have received letters from insurance companies in the last few months, cancelling their health plans. It’s part of the transi...
- Added: Dec 29, 2013
- Length: 10:58
Boys' State is an experiment in Democracy that a select group of high school boys attend in Maine this week. We can hope they will learn about the...
- Added: Oct 17, 2013
- Length: 06:00
Sonnets are a way to find optimism in difficult times. This is a sonnet that acknowledges that the first fish is the best fish and can provide f...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KMXT
- Added: Oct 13, 2013
- Length: :51
- Purchases: 2
On every city block, there are rules. Some are unspoken, some require friendly reminders, some are enforced by the law. Is it ever OK to break the ...
- Added: Jul 31, 2013
- Length: 12:16
Nearly 500 inmates serving life sentences have been freed from California prisons since voters passed Proposition 36 last November. The law authori...
- Added: Jun 20, 2013
- Length: 22:29
What do we really know about death row in California? When we don’t know we create, we imagine.
Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 2
Red Hook is an isolated neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, once known as the “crack capital of America.” In 2000, residents banded together to create a ...
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 11:48
- Purchases: 3
You’ve just been arrested, charged with a felony and can’t afford to pay your bail, let alone hire a lawyer. You know you have the right to a trial...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 13:00
- Purchases: 1
Is the law ever a laughing matter? We present to you a brief history of attempted comedy in the toughest room in the country—the Supreme Courtroom.
Bought by KALW
- Added: Mar 21, 2013
- Length: 12:16
- Purchases: 1
I am a licensed psychologist. One question routinely asked is; "Do you have guns in your home?" If they say yes, I ask, "Are they in a locked cabi...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 03:35
The riverbank is a public space open for everyone. But people do not always agree on how to best spend a hot summer day.
- Added: Oct 13, 2012
- Length: 16:17
- Purchases: 2
In California, there are hundreds if not thousands of people practicing criminal law though they’ve never passed a bar exam. They don’t wear suits....
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 14:10
- Purchases: 2
Juries have a little known power that allows them to ignore the law and vote with their own instincts. This piece explores how juries have used tha...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, WJCT, KALW, and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 11:47
- Purchases: 5
In the next hour, you’ll hear an exclusive interview in which America’s most famous opponent of same-sex marriage announces that he has changed his...
- Added: Jun 22, 2012
- Length: 44:26
The Republican attack on women, a not- so thinly veiled attack on credibility, the females, that is, is not new. Women, you may remember, require ...
- Added: Jun 13, 2012
- Length: 04:46
- Added: Nov 11, 2011
- Length: 28:21
Delayed gratification has changed. Social science experiments often mirror cultural values and our best learners absorb them well. They do what th...
- Added: Oct 24, 2011
- Length: 02:57
News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
- Added: Oct 21, 2011
- Length: 29:00
News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Oct 19, 2011
- Length: 07:35
- Purchases: 2
News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.
- Added: Sep 16, 2011
- Length: 29:00
News and features on the conflicts in Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
- Added: Jun 30, 2011
- Length: 03:49
News and features on the conflicts in Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
- Added: Jun 24, 2011
- Length: 02:21
International Women's Day is a time for women to acknowledge how women are discredited by others. And yes women too discredit women. All of this c...
- Added: Mar 09, 2011
- Length: 04:00
