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The novelist David Foster Wallace once said, “Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.” This week on Sea Change ...
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- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In Part Two of my conversation with Chesa Boudin, we explore how his experiences as a child have informed his approach to criminal justice, and his...
- Added: Jun 29, 2023
- Length: 29:30
Former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick talks about polarization in the U.S. and his improbable American journey.
- Added: Sep 13, 2022
- Length: 31:26
What comes to mind when you hear the words “crime” and “safety?” For many, these words evoke images of poor people stealing things, or police enfor...
- Added: Aug 09, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Are you weary of having to care about where headline-seeking Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema land on important topics? Well, according to t...
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Applying a GOP history lesson to our current political moment
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- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 36:31
- Purchases: 1
If California progressives were a tortilla brand, they’d be delicious but expensive and inaccessible. By contrast, establishment Democratic tortill...
- Added: Jun 21, 2022
- Length: 31:46
A leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade has health care providers scrambling. We talk with an OB-GYN at the University...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: May 05, 2022
- Length: 12:53
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we explore the historical and geo-political context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as the role and actions of NATO.
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- Added: Mar 17, 2022
- Length: 29:30
In the film adaptation of The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss, the unscrupulous Aloysius O’Hare sells oxygen. The audience is shocked and dismayed by this want...
Bought by WFHB and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jun 29, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
We are on the brink of the hottest months of the year. For those of us in California this means getting ready for the nuisance of rolling blackouts...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2021
- Length: 29:00
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In this episode, we explore the current state of news, and how the way news is presented in the U.S. has shifted during the pandemic, including a g...
- Added: Apr 09, 2021
- Length: 29:30
This has been a difficult stretch for the country with millions sick, out of work, or simply stuck at home. But the horrific murder of George Floyd...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 29:00
In part 2 of my interview with Dr. Boydstun, we explore social media and our own behavior as media audiences and consumers… AND people connected to...
- Added: Apr 16, 2020
- Length: 29:30
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Amber Boydstun, Associate Professor of Political Science at UC Davis, and author of Making the News… about how me...
- Added: Apr 09, 2020
- Length: 29:30
What can all the money in the world buy you? Thanks to the Beatles, we already know it’s not love, but could it perhaps buy you the most powerful o...
- Added: Feb 25, 2020
- Length: 29:00
A conviction of a protester outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic brings up the question: when will the severity of the violence that follows fr...
- Added: Aug 24, 2019
- Length: 08:49
Moral Development thinkers of the 1960's and 70's helped make sense of those polarized times. The "moral" twist of these times is often reduced to ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2019
- Length: 07:35
Musical tribute with Santa Claus paying attention to who's marginal and who's not!
- Added: Jan 05, 2019
- Length: 02:10
To the tune from Auld Lang Syne - for the Great American Wrongbook- a musical tribute to say farewell to the past and anticipate a more visionary ...
- Added: Dec 30, 2018
- Length: 05:46
As Maine's new Governor has formed a transition team. A "How to Honor the Public Trust Guide" might be helpful.
- Added: Dec 05, 2018
- Length: 08:59
A musical tribute to a special soon-to-be-retiring Government Elected! George Gershwin might not mind if you sing this to his 1937 "They Can't Take...
- Added: Nov 15, 2018
- Length: 03:51
A musical tribute to polling before Election Day! In the Department of Poetic Justice (and Reckoning) with lyrics for "The Great American Wrongboo...
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 03:20
It’s barely four months since the Las Vegas massacre, and already it’s all but forgotten. Now comes the Florida high school mass shooting and we mu...
- Added: Feb 20, 2018
- Length: 03:16
It’s been one year since the remarkable inauguration of President Donald Trump, and politicians and pundits across the country are being asked to t...
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- Added: Jan 05, 2018
- Length: 03:33
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