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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
Still more blurring of the lines between news and entertainment. Now they've upped the ante by using news programs to promote their own entertainme...
Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KMXT, and WOUB
- Added: Jul 25, 2013
- Length: 58:50
- Purchases: 3
Reporter Leon Martin explores the wave of conversions to Islam in the United States.
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 06:26
Todd Boss grew up on a cattle farm in Wisconsin, and lives now in St. Paul. His two books of poetry have won rave reviews from all over. His second...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 02:29
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
The Sam Dingman Show Etiquette Report looks at a troubling linguistic trend. Next, our Archaeological Division has unearthed another National Trea...
- Added: Mar 28, 2012
- Length: 35:40
Some thoughts on the Mike Daisey situation from a fellow monologist with approximately one-fortieth the level of fame and notoriety as Mike Daisey.
- Added: Mar 20, 2012
- Length: 22:23
Author Glenn Greenwald talks about his book, ‘With Liberty and Justice for Some.’ Americans claim to live under the rule of law; that no one is abo...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 14, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
No matter how many lawsuits are filed to make political influence available to the highest bidder, there is one kind that you can't pay for or crea...
- Added: Feb 24, 2012
- Length: 04:30
As the dust settles from the Iowa Caucuses , it is time to sniff, dig and if necessary chew and swallow pettiness and small-mindedness where found....
- Added: Jan 05, 2012
- Length: 01:29
We wade into emotionally shallow waters when we look at the media's recent coverage of the important consequences of the Penn State revelation tha...
- Added: Nov 19, 2011
- Length: 02:31
Social media is a place to share stories globally even though they are suppressed locally.
- Added: Nov 01, 2011
- Length: 17:21
Long ago, The Cavalier, horsemen who helped Charles I fight off The Roundheads, created "Dos and Don'ts" for choosing the Ponies to stand by them ...
- Added: May 17, 2011
- Length: 01:36
Joe Carraro discusses the fall of Merrill Lynch, the Wall Street firm he worked for as a stockbroker. He compares the greed and ineptitude of Thain...
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 06:09
National Public Radio (NPR) President and CEO Vivian Schiller spoke at a National Press Club Luncheon on Monday, March 7th.
- Added: Mar 07, 2011
- Length: 54:01
Eleven years after I posted the first commentary for The River is Wide series, this remains true: Speaking and seeking the truth is not cynical.
- Added: Jan 11, 2011
- Length: 03:04
News. Where do you get your news? More importantly, who do you trust to deliver that news? Commentator Mark Blackmon says he's given up newspapers ...
- Added: Aug 19, 2010
- Length: 05:12
The mainstream media are in effect censoring labor news that's important to all of us.
- Added: Oct 22, 2009
- Length: 06:24
Rick Steves is a popular PBS Travel Host and has authored dozens of travel guides. Here he speaks passionately about marijuana reform at the NORML ...
Bought by KSFR and WGBH Radio Boston
- Added: Aug 31, 2009
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 2
BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Mar 11, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Without Comment is a 13 week series looking at the first 100 days of the Barack presidency.
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 09:45
Commentary on the recent decision in Kansas to restrict library books.
- Added: Feb 22, 2009
- Length: 02:47
A panel of international journalists, politicos, academics and legal experts consider propaganda in the context of a hypothetical struggle between ...
Bought by KQED, WGBH Radio Boston, KUT-HD, KCUR, KWGS and more
- Added: Dec 15, 2008
- Length: 58:30
- Purchases: 6
Commentary on how the presidential debates could be improved.
- Added: Oct 31, 2008
- Length: 03:11
- Added: Jul 24, 2008
- Length: 03:26
- Purchases: 1
