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Division is nothing new in America, but this political divide feels different. Why are we so angry? How can we end this toxic polarization?

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  • Added: May 09, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Dr. Robert Elliott Smith
How do social media algorithms feed us news, entertainment, advertisements, even suggesting friends and lovers? By simplifying human nature, accord...

  • Added: Aug 07, 2020
  • Length: 30:02
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Vanessa from Austin, Texas, talks about why she wants the detention centers at the border to be closed. She describes what she saw in the children'...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:10
Caption: Frances Shure
“The role of the media is the primary reason why good people become silent — or worse — about 9/11.” -- Frances Shure

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2018
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Chris Hedges wants us to face the reality that our society is unraveling. He speaks with John Shuck about his latest book.

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dr. Cynthia McKinney
Topics include her entry into politics, racism, the various factions of the Deep State, 9/11, COINTELPRO, media propaganda, Hollywood, the Israel l...

  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 58:01
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Millennials and younger people now make up America’s largest group of eligible voters, surpassing Baby Boomers for the first time.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
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HOUR ONE: "You Had To Be There" - A new generation rediscovers pleasure palaces of the past, abandoned movie theaters and concert halls. What are t...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
Caption: Dr. Graeme MacQueen
Graeme MacQueen shows how the 9/11 attacks were a psychological manipulation on Americans to get U.S. citizens to accept loss of civil rights and s...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Sep 16, 2017
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Senior Producer, Tony Gannon, and Post Production Editor, Kirsten Jusewicz-Haidle, Credit: Nancy Mullane
What do radio silence, the FCC, net neutrality, President Trump's first solo press conference, and Richard Wagner have in common? Welcome to In-Stu...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Mar 08, 2017
  • Length: 53:16
  • Purchases: 1
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At Life of the Law, we’re going to shake things up a bit so our team can jump into the national conversation that’s taking place about the law. We’...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 41:52
Caption: Anti-lynching banner flew outside NAACP headquarters in midtown Manhattan from the early 1900s until 1938. , Credit:  (LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/COURTESY OF THE NAACP)
For “Lynchings on Loop” Courtney Baker, author of Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death joins us to talk about ...

Bought by WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Jul 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Host Kris Lotlikar reflects on recent current events and shares a portion of the podcast "This Week in Drugs". Produced by Shea Gunther.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2016
  • Length: 54:13
Caption: Greg Palast
Greg Palast is an award-winning, internationally known investigative reporter for the Guardian, The Nation and the BBC, and author of several New Y...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: May 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Ken Thompson made history in 2013 when he became the first African American to be elected Brooklyn District Attorney. He won international attentio...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:06
Caption: What Clean Elections Won't Clean, Credit: Susan Cook
Clean elections protect constituent rights so wealthy individuals or self-serving personal interests or six-figure job candidates don’t exploit the...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2015
  • Length: 05:44
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The 2015 United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF) is made up of documentary films dealing with key global issues. This year’s theme RUNNING...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 54:50
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Tonight’s show, “What’s the Matter with Voting,” will focus on some of the questions that surround the ways citizens think about what voting means,...

  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:28
Caption: Steven Pagones
In 1987, Steven Pagones, a former assistant district attorney in Dutchess County, New York was accused of being one of six white men who raped and ...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2015
  • Length: 30:03
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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
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The truth can be our moral antidote, our moral medicine, the vitamin that- yes, if someone is trying to tell us that nine dollars and something is ...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 04:23
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The public officials and the political candidates who shape public discourse through the impulsive and shallow convey far more about their ethics t...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2014
  • Length: 04:21
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Street Roots is a non-profit news outlet that has been addressing homelessness and poverty in Portland, Oregon since 1998.

  • Added: Jul 17, 2014
  • Length: 03:27
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
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
Caption: "...as close as you can to the truth, that wild horse that once you catch..., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right and wrong. Today's Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks: Why not mangle,`distort the i...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2014
  • Length: 01:04