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Just before the Olympics, the country if not the world received, from a bully pulpit, a message from my state's junior United States senator. On te...
- Added: Jan 25, 2014
- Length: 03:30
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
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
The cost of American democracy is the most expensive in the world. In the 2012 elections billions of dollars were spent on political campaigns. But...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Jan 03, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Numbers can be deceptive … we know this. Yet, in spite of how sophisticated we think we are, we still can be taken-in by numbers. Sometimes we’ll e...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 26, 2013
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 1
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right. Thinking about what is right sometimes means finding the question that needs to ...
- Added: Aug 09, 2013
- Length: 01:01
Remember the sixty second moral inquiry asks questions about what is the right thing to do. Today, we ask "How can you tell If a government is bec...
- Added: Jul 23, 2013
- Length: 01:02
The parades and camaraderie of the Fourth of July celebrate freedom.
This nation-wide celebration doesn't mean that the freedoms we have can’t be...
- Added: Jun 29, 2013
- Length: 03:58
An Indiana University student was arrested and charged with felony intimidation after posting to Twitter what police determined was a threatening m...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 08:50
In celebration of the twentieth anniversary of WFHB national radio personality, Jim Hightower spoke at the Buskirk-Chumley Theatre in downtown Bloo...
- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 08:35
It began with an on-air rant by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli. It became a major political movement, with elected representatives on Capitol Hill....
- Added: Aug 29, 2012
- Length: 29:01
On this election season edition of Peace Talks Radio, an assessment of the problem of incivility in political discourse - and some ideas on how to ...
- Added: Aug 28, 2012
- Length: 29:03
- Purchases: 3
On this election season edition of Peace Talks Radio, an assessment of the problem of incivility in political discourse - and some ideas on how to ...
Bought by KUHF, WUFT, KUOW, KUOW, KBRP Community Radio and more
- Added: Aug 27, 2012
- Length: 58:55
- Purchases: 13
Do the presidential nominating conventions still serve a purpose in American politics? Do these events need to be reformed or scaled down? Or shoul...
- Added: Aug 27, 2012
- Length: 02:03
In Episode #16, Susan Manheimer, San Mateo Police Chief and California Police Chiefs Association President, discusses why she became a police offic...
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 30:48
In Episode #14, Laurie Robinson, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs at the U.S. Department of Justice, discusses bridgin...
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 32:32
In Episode #12, Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts discusses his goals as Oakland's new Chief, the importance of working with the community, his ef...
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 30:09
In Episode #11, Frank Zimring, Professor at Berkeley Law School, discusses New York City's remarkable crime decline in the past twenty years, the r...
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 30:10
In Episode #10, Mimi Silbert, President and CEO of the Delancey Street Foundation, discusses the unique Delancey Street rehabilitation model, the s...
- Added: Jul 31, 2012
- Length: 36:12
In Episode #9, Jeanne Woodford, former Warden of San Quentin State Prison and former Acting Secretary of the California Department of Corrections a...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 30:22
In Episode #7, San Francisco Police Chief George Gascon discusses putting ethics at the forefront of police training, what he learned from Chief Bi...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 37:15
In Episode #6, Senator Mark Leno, Chair of the California Senate Public Safety Committee, discusses politicians' fear of being labeled "soft on cri...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 35:47
In Episode #5, Sunny Schwartz, author of "Dreams from the Monster Factory: A Tale of Prison, Redemption and One Woman's Fight to Restore Justice to...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 36:35
In Episode #4, Bill Bratton, former Los Angeles Police Chief and former New York Police Commissioner, discusses the importance of working with the ...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 37:51
