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Rollbacks on federal regulations will put American’s food at risk. Professor Adam Sheingate explains the risks to consumers and the prospects for f...
- Added: Mar 13, 2017
- Length: 23:21
Protests that turn violent have been a constant throughout American history. Professor Ashley Howard explains their origins, and how new laws, poli...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 26:10
- Purchases: 1
The outsized influence of money in U.S. politics is a problem. Sean McElwee and Professor Tabatha Abu El-Haj describe how donors skew policy and ho...
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 38:13
The 2016 elections are over but what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and schol...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 55:48
The 2016 elections are over but what did we learn from the results? Over the past 11 months, Life of the Law’s team of reporters, editors and schol...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 59:57
North Carolina’s digital divide between urban and rural communities is increasing dangerously in a time when high quality Internet access is more i...
- Added: Oct 11, 2016
- Length: 05:22
The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Valerie Plame Wilson, former covert CIA operations officer and author whose covert status w...
- Added: Sep 12, 2016
- Length: 28:34
The Living Well Show presents Greg Palast, investigative journalist, who tells us about the "New Jim Crow" efforts to deny the vote to millions of ...
- Added: Aug 30, 2016
- Length: 28:41
Radio Curious discusses police misconduct, accountability and the Black Lives Matter movement with Dr. Joseph Marshall, a member of the San Francis...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Bail is supposed to allow a person accused of a crime to put some money up as a type of collateral - a promise they will return for their court dat...
- Added: Jul 26, 2016
- Length: 27:06
There are 28 judicial emergencies on federal courts throughout the country. A judicial emergency is when there's been a vacancy on the court for to...
- Added: May 03, 2016
- Length: 22:00
Domestic oil drilling offers private landowners the promise of riches in their own backyard. But what if you don’t want to live next door to an oil...
- Added: Apr 19, 2016
- Length: 22:39
March 17th is Arts Advocacy Day in Minnesota. Laura Seter and Holly Alcott make up the staff of the Region 2 Arts Council in Bemidji. They’ll be he...
- Added: Mar 16, 2016
- Length: 10:19
In Kansas, public schools are at the heart of a debate about how much money the state should budget for education -- a debate that comes down to a ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2016
- Length: 32:54
"Criminal Justice System.” Those three words intimidate a lot of us. Megan Treuer is Associate Judge at Leech Lake. She voluntarily heads the Crim...
Bought by WGZS
- Added: Feb 02, 2016
- Length: 08:46
- Purchases: 1
In the U.S., juries are often seen as democracy in action. Twelve men and women are asked to hear an entire case, and ultimately, decide another pe...
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 23:13
Given their significance to global economies, corporate leaders' influence reaches beyond the walls of their businesses. How do they use that power...
- Added: Aug 04, 2015
- Length: 29:39
Amateur sleuths armed with their own laptops, public information and a lot of spare time are working alone and in groups to crack criminal cases. S...
Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KVNF, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 24, 2015
- Length: 32:30
- Purchases: 4
She speaks to us about her "Her latest book They Take Our Jobs and 20 Other Myths about Immigration, she dismantles common assumptions and beliefs ...
- Added: May 15, 2015
- Length: 27:30
Host Doug Storm is joined by District 5 candidates for the Democratic nomination to run for the Bloomington City Council seat in November.
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 58:36
Host Doug Storm is joined by District 1 candidates for the Democratic nomination to run for the Bloomington City Council seat in November.
- Added: Apr 15, 2015
- Length: 58:54
We're asking the $64,000 question: can we build a more crash-proof, less leveraged, more equitable financial system? Our guest Jeremy Allaire would...
- Added: Mar 31, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
We’re revisiting the Attica prison revolt in 1971. It began as a civil rights protest and ended in a massacre when Governor Nelson Rockefeller orde...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZYX
- Added: Mar 15, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
On this Kickstarter-launch week we’re diagnosing America’s healthcare woes with the meta-journalist and heart patient, Steve Brill.
- Added: Jan 25, 2015
- Length: 58:37
Starting last month, the American freeze-out of Communist Cuba, which long outlasted the Cold War, began to come to an end. It may have been a smal...
Bought by KZYX
- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
