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EMBARGOED UNTIL THE PASSING OF PRESIDENT CARTER / / / On this program, we remember Former President Jimmy Carter by hearing an exclusive interview...

Bought by KNKX, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Election Special: Voters in San Francisco registered with the Peace & Freedom, Green, Republican or Democratic parties have extra choices in the Ma...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
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March 2024 Election Special: Why are San Francisco residents being asked to vote on County Superior Court Judges? We talk to University of San Fran...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 22:13
  • Purchases: 1
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2023 marks the 75th anniversary of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What does it mean to commemorate Human Rights Day in a time of genoci...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMUN, KDNK, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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After 11 years in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs — the entity most responsible for arms transfers to allies and partne...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
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A US Supreme Court ruling throws American wetlands under the bus. In the oven, wheat and corn flour turn into bread and tortillas; spread on farm f...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2023
  • Length: 59:21
Caption: Alt text: Four homemade masks made from patterned cloth sitting on top of a fabric cutting mat, Credit: Mai-Linh Hong
To mark the three year anniversary of the official start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we'll be looking at two alternative supply chains for masks that...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Later this year the Supreme Court is set to decide whether to close a legal pathway that Medicaid recipients have used for more than 50 years. This...

  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 11:27
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This week on the show: Foregone conclusion: Finland votes to join NATO. Calling home from hell: investigative journalist Erika Kinetz on the inte...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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On today's programme: Making do — Ukrainian doctors battle to keep the healthcare system alive; Making amends — The Dutch government apologizes fo...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Former U.S. Senators Doug Jones and Bob Corker discuss the results of the midterm elections and what lies ahead of a newly divided Congress.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2022
  • Length: 37:42
Caption: End of Bay State Bipartisanship?: These Not So United States (MA Part Two)
Former MA Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey and UMass Amherst Professor Alex Theodoridis discuss how national polarization is affecting Massachusetts politics ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 28:51
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It’s hard to imagine a political event that was covered more intensively in real time than Trump’s two impeachments. But only now, 18 months after ...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 01:05:45
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UCLA political scientists Lynn Vavreck and Chris Tausanovitch and Vanderbilt’s John Sides argue that political party identity has become increasing...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 01:02:52
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On Tuesday, Leahy, who is retiring this year after representing Vermont in the Senate since 1975, released “The Road Taken,” an engrossing memoir t...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 36:05
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The White House suddenly has a lot to brag about. And the president’s aides, led by chief of staff Ron Klain, are reaching deep into the 20th centu...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 25:05
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This week the Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 using the process known as budget reconciliation. The upside? No filibuster is allo...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 51:44
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The biggest remaining obstacle for the Democrats is now Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, who will continue to host Democratic and Repub...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 42:43
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Here’s something about Washington, D.C. that even a lot of people who live here don’t know: Psychedelic mushrooms are basically legal. In 2020 vote...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 34:35
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George Gascón was elected district attorney of Los Angeles County in November 2020 with 54% of the vote. “I won handsomely,” he reminisced Wednes...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 42:39
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If documentary filmmaker Alex Holder’s memory is accurate, Donald Trump was on the phone with Vladimir Putin just minutes after the news broke that...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 30:32
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J. Michael Luttig is the former federal appeals court judge who advised Vice President Mike Pence that the VP had no authority to reject electors o...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 38:00
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This week in the GOP primary for South Dakota’s at-large district, Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) defeated a challenger from his right who claimed he ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 44:40
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There’s at least a few people in the Democratic establishment who have hope for the midterms. They’re the redistricting experts, people like Kelly ...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 26:24
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Trump-backed candidates have lost recently in Georgia, Nebraska, North Carolina and Idaho. The biggest caveat about how the lessons of other states...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 34:29