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Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
South Dakota Democracy Advocates Submit Ballot Measure Signatures for a ‘Top 2’ Single Ballot Open Primary System. If Approved, All Voters Get a V...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The American Democracy Minute Radio Report
U.S. Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Washington State Case Challenging the Washington Voting Rights Act

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KTSW 89.9, and Angelica Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Election Special: Voters in San Francisco registered with the Peace & Freedom, Green, Republican or Democratic parties have extra choices in the Ma...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
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March 2024 Election Special: Mayor London Breed is facing one of the most pivotal moments of her political career as she campaigns for reelection a...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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March 2024 Election Special: Why are San Francisco residents being asked to vote on County Superior Court Judges? We talk to University of San Fran...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 22:13
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, we explore the persistent challenge of how to ensure that everyone has adequate housing. We discuss why the U.S. faces these issue...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Screenshot of SF Chronicle's Interactive Real Estate Map, Credit: San Francisco Chronicle
In this episode, we explore the Bay Area housing market, and how mass corporate ownership of homes and apartments throughout the region affects com...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: End of Bay State Bipartisanship?: These Not So United States (MA Part Two)
Former MA Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey and UMass Amherst Professor Alex Theodoridis discuss how national polarization is affecting Massachusetts politics ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:51
Caption: Logo: America Talks
It’s no secret that polarization is deepening divides across the US. Over the past few years, many people have started or joined what are called br...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
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In this episode, we explore the sharp increase in fentanyl deaths across the country, including in San Francisco and the Bay Area, which had thus f...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
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This week, we cover carceral non-profits in an interview with Drs. Zhandarka Kurti, a professor of criminology and Criminal Justice at Loyola Unive...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
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In this episode, we explore the debt ceiling - what it is, why it exists, and why it keeps coming up in Congressional negotiations and wrangling. ...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
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In this episode, we discuss the state of U-S tax policy, as well as some ideas for how to overhaul the system to make it more equitable, efficient,...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
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In this episode, we explore taxes in the US, including how tax policy has evolved and devolved over the course of U-S history, what taxes are meant...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
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In this episode, we explore the First Amendment aspects of voting, elections, and campaigns - in particular how voting and related activities might...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, we’ll continue our series on Healing a Country’s Wounds by talking about the strategy of Public Dialogues. ...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI and KUNM


  • Added: Aug 26, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Some of the most persistent myths about coronavirus and the vaccines developed to fight it have to do with women’s health. In this segment, we’ll h...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 24, 2021
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: headshot: Laura Specker Sullivan
In this episode, we explore the role and power of language - words and phrases - in how we discuss the issues that affect us and that drive our new...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Sojung Yi, Charlie Wang and Melissa Borja, Credit: Self Evident
Two incidents of anti-Asian hate — the beating of an elderly grandfather in a San Francisco park and the harassment of a mourning son in a New York...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and WMPG


  • Added: Apr 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Domestic workers have been especially hard hit by the pandemic but have been consistently excluded from bills meant to help frontline workers. In t...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 04:10
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Today, a divided nation experiences one of the most tumultuous presidential transitions in US history. Leaders from marginalized communities across...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Headshot: Glenn Kessler
In this episode, we talk with Glenn Kessler, editor… and chief writer of the Washington Post Fact Checker… and credited with doing the first offici...

  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
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In this episode, we talk with John Wood, Jr., national ambassador for Braver Angels, an organization also working to build relationships across the...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
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In this episode, we seek to make sense of the recent New York Times articles about the President’s tax returns. We also explore the U.S. tax system...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: Screenshot of Podcast Recording, Credit: Gina Baleria
In this episode, we explore the influence and impact of framing - in particular how mainstream news tends to frame national issues as gamified, two...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 29:30