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I was reading the New York Times article about the last batch of the 30000 emails released that Hillary Clinton received on her private server- wh...
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 05:17
Television is not just news. It has become the lynchpin of the lynchmob.
- Added: Feb 22, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Riding on the train to the Democratic National Convention one year, I had the good fortune to talk with a former president of N.O.W. For young twen...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 05:03
In Today's Department of Poetic Justice (and The Great American Wrongbook), "Donald J. Trump- The Evangelical Version" which could be sung to the ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2016
- Length: 02:59
First published on the eve of Martin Luther King Day , we turn to our preferred form of political expression, the sonnet, to acknowledge the compas...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 01:11
- Purchases: 1
I will not overlay my Facebook profile picture with the French tricolor.
- Added: Nov 16, 2015
- Length: 06:00
As more writers return awards and honors, cynics ask if this is an outbreak of Award Returnitis
- Added: Oct 12, 2015
- Length: 06:00
Mahesh Sharma, India’s Culture minister, and a high school in Irving, Texas have more in common than they realize.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
We are inundated by a circus of gratuitous and salacious images in our media everyday, but one recent photograph has cut through the clutter.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 08, 2015
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
When Hardik Patel got 600,000 people to show up at a rally in Ahmedabadn in his native Gujarat everyone sat up and noticed.
But his reservation mo...
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- Added: Sep 01, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The secrecy around an illness can become the great taboo.
What Jimmy Carter did by going public was break that taboo and face the disease squarely....
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Aug 25, 2015
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
In 1948, the United Nations said seeking asylum is a basic right to seek protection from government persecution. In my state, there is now a contro...
- Added: Jun 24, 2015
- Length: 04:50
Well, in my state we have a remarkable example of corporations having their way with state legislators to pass a bill that- in the long run did not...
- Added: Apr 22, 2015
- Length: 05:46
The Supreme Court of the United States has decided that Arizona’s 2000 law which created an Independent Commission to determine Congressional Re-d...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 07:04
In many parts of the world, torture, harassment and persecution are used to target individuals who criticize , believe, have secrets or religion...
- Added: Dec 19, 2014
- Length: 01:40
If Woodward and Bernstein and Ben Bradlee had gone for the “gotcha” instead of the truth, the cost would have been the truth. The integrity that ...
- Added: Oct 25, 2014
- Length: 04:45
Several reasons are presented which individually and collectively demonstrate why Ebola should be treated as though it is airborne.
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 04:16
The Times of India newspaper called this Indian election a "Dance of Democracy." But for Sandip Roy it's more of a 'Disco' Dance of Democracy.
- Added: Apr 30, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Sandip Roy attended a recent rally for Indian National Congress Party leader Rahul Gandhi, but storm clouds were gathering.
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 04:30
The controversy over Tibetan independence won't likely be over anytime soon, but is the Middle Way, promoted by the Dalai Lama himself, any way to ...
- Added: Mar 10, 2014
- Length: 04:30
After Nelson Mandela was freed from the life sentence he was serving in prison, he often spoke about refusing bitterness toward his captors. But h...
- Added: Dec 06, 2013
- Length: 02:54
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about how to know right and wrong. Today's question: How can you tell if you are being treated disres...
- Added: Sep 30, 2013
- Length: 01:08
To understand what civility is these days in times of tweets, smart phones, blogs and Facebook, we first have to look at "uncivil" and how "uncivil...
- Added: Aug 25, 2013
- Length: 02:36
"Updating your truth" is a term not much used these days. We read that somebody "denied", "vetoed", "denounced", "maintained", "refused to consider...
- Added: Jun 15, 2013
- Length: 04:07
Let us pause and pine for those deeply scented pine-tree shaped air fresheners that hung from the rear view mirror, just small enough to avoid obst...
- Added: Mar 09, 2013
- Length: 01:36
