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Host Bob Kustra talks with Jacob Hacker, author of "American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper."
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Sep 02, 2016
- Length: 30:30
- Purchases: 1
America’s prison population has grown by leaps and bounds over the past 40-years. The “land of the free” has the dubious distinction of handing dow...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: May 18, 2016
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Try to find a true democracy anywhere in the world and you’ll be challenged. What you’ll find instead is a nation ruled by the few, with the majori...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
-Pulitzer Prize winner journalist and historian Rick Atkinson on his work and career.
-New York street photographer left behind more than 300,000 i...
Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, WXDU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Mar 11, 2016
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 8
Over the past 35-years, the economy has been reasonably productive. It’s worked well for investors and high-level executives, but not for ordinary ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
The number of people imprisoned in the United States is rapidly increasing. Although America accounts for only five percent of the world’s populati...
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Robert Gordon talks foretelling the future, respecting both sides of an argument, and changing the media landscape.
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 23:21
- Purchases: 1
Lee Grant talks boundaries, fairness, and the roots of chutzpah.
- Added: Jul 29, 2015
- Length: 21:41
A conversation with The Innocence Project's Deirdre Enright, perhaps best known to fans of the super-popular podcast Serial as the legal sleuth que...
Bought by WCNY, KPVL, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, and WTJU
- Added: Jul 02, 2015
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 4
An homage to Kendall Wild, the former managing editor of the Rutland Herald during the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s. He was eccentric, competitive, a...
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 25:45
Robert Kenner talks fake pundits, hard facts, and media responsibility.
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 26:45
America is the leading industrial country for incarcerated citizens.
Editor-in-Chief of Truthout, Maya Schenwar, envisions the possibility of a fut...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KCBX
- Added: Dec 22, 2014
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
With the election season over, the next phase of elected politics has settled on our plates like a bowl of jello. How can you tell when the age-old...
- Added: Nov 16, 2014
- Length: 01:04
In politics, arrogance can be hired, purchased or -in volunteer organizations- a gratuity that comes with volunteer labor.- or elected. In Maine ...
- Added: Nov 08, 2014
- Length: 05:14
In the 1950’s and 1960’s American citizens and the stalwart among them who were brave enough to run for political office had to learn to live with...
- Added: Oct 31, 2014
- Length: 06:04
Laura Poitras talks irony, leaps of faith, and being nominated for the Homeland Security Watch List.
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 18:35
This story was told in the Bywater neighborhood on November 15th, 2012. The theme of the evening was Leftovers. Here, the seemingly insignificant i...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 06:47
Jacques Berlinerblau on secularism; Katy Scrogin on God Believes in Love: Straight Talk about Gay Marriage.
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 53:50
From: Cannabis Radio News
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has introduced his administration’s marijuana prevention campaign to deter underage consumption. The theme of t...
- Added: Aug 11, 2014
- Length: 02:51
Brian Knappenberger talks precedents, freedom of internet access, and saving lives.
- Added: Aug 08, 2014
- Length: 28:44
In mid-July, federal and state agencies launched a month-long marijuana raid on the Yurok Reservation in northwestern Ca. At the request of the tri...
- Added: Jul 26, 2014
- Length: 07:04
Carl Deal and Tia Lessin talk loopholes, dark money, and unexpected ironies.
- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 25:20
Errol Morris’s movie The Unknown Known is the provocation this week: cinema sequel to the Oscar winning documentary on Robert McNamara and Vietnam,...
- Added: Apr 05, 2014
- Length: 58:34
Those who grew up in the era of Richard Nixon knew a time when "The Kingdom" took an especially frightening aura of power and glory. One speaking t...
- Added: Jan 12, 2014
- Length: 04:39
Interview conducted by radio journalist Jake Feinberg. Wide ranging discussion from his relationship with Bob Dylan to the potential of viral video...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 16:54
