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No matter what you eat, it probably has tiny bits of plastic in it. Research scientists Madeleine Milne joins Patti and Doug for a lively discussion.
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Feb 04, 2024
- Length: 57:38
- Purchases: 1
Immigration journalist Bekah McNeel speaks on the subtleties of this controversial topic.
- Added: Dec 28, 2023
- Length: 58:02
- Purchases: 3
One woman's heartbreaking story of her husband's brain cancer diagnosis, and why cell phone manufacturers warn users never to hold the phone agains...
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 28:17
- Purchases: 2
If you're getting nervous these days about going to the grocery or taking your kid to the ballpark for fear of getting shot, rest easy. Republicans...
- Added: Sep 15, 2023
- Length: 03:00
Congress is wrangling over the Farm Bill, which includes over $3 billion for giant agriculture corporations and multimillionaire "farmers" who don'...
- Added: Sep 08, 2023
- Length: 02:57
Affirmative action's foes worked with conservative Chinese American organizations to sue two colleges over their admissions processes. The result w...
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, WNYE and more
- Added: Jul 28, 2023
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 7
Dr. Jay Lemery of the University of Colorado talks about how a new generation of physicians needs to be trained to address the unique public health...
- Added: Jan 16, 2023
- Length: 28:17
Investigative reporter Deena Winter talks about 3M dumping PFAS chemicals and the impact on the health of kids in the area.
- Added: Dec 24, 2022
- Length: 28:02
Ellen Marks' husband spent years with a cell phone held against his head. Then he got brain cancer. Coincidence? Maybe not.
- Added: Dec 12, 2022
- Length: 28:45
The pandemic has upended caregiving and what it means to be a working mom. More than 2 million women have left the workforce because of the cost an...
- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 04:27
How do you let people who are fully vaccinated get back to normal life without creating super-spreader events for those who haven’t yet been vaccin...
- Added: Jun 10, 2021
- Length: 04:19
Domestic abuse affects everyone it touches—intimate partners, children, and elders. COVID-19 created new problems for victims of domestic violence ...
- Added: May 03, 2021
- Length: 29:59
The Trump administration has issued numerous policies to systematically dismantle asylum as a legal right. They're also locking up asylum seekers f...
- Added: Jan 04, 2021
- Length: 29:59
Fifty years ago, there was a radical plan to completely remake a county sheriff’s department in an iconic western town. It almost worked, they almo...
Bought by KFCF FM
- Added: Jun 16, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Soul Fire Farm’s Leah Penniman talks with Chris Hedges, author of America: The Farewell Tour, about environmental threats, societal breakdown, and ...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: Jan 17, 2019
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
This month is the ten year anniversary of the stock market crash of 2018. Nomi Prins talks about her new book, “Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigg...
- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 29:59
Families torn apart at the border and through our prison system. Can we use this moment of public awareness to create change? Emani Davis, a long-s...
Bought by KDNK and Radio Catskill
- Added: Jul 07, 2018
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
Your Call: Media coverage of the resistance at Standing Rock & Trump's new national security advisor
From: KALWSeries: Your Call Media Roundtable
This week, we’ll discuss coverage of Donald Trump's new national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster. Who is McMaster? We’ll also talk about t...
- Added: Feb 24, 2017
- Length: 54:01
A recent disaster in Kolkata brings out the lookie-loos - and much more.
- Added: Apr 04, 2016
- Length: 06:00
Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza tells the story of how that phrase, and the movement came to be.
- Added: Apr 29, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Drone attacks. Black sites where prisoners are tortured. Guantanamo is still in operation. As we enter the 6th year of Barack Obamas presidency, I...
- Added: Jan 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
What India's latest space mission to Mars can tell us about the difficulties in reconciling the aspirations of the "haves" and the "have nots."
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 02:23
What the adoption of Sharia in Brunei can tell us about the importance of modern interpretations of Islamic law.
- Added: Oct 24, 2013
- Length: 02:15
African-Americans have endured more than 246 years of slavery, 100 years of racism and segregation. The trauma from that experience continues to im...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Energy policy expert Kate Gordon of The Center for the Next Generation talks about what state and local governments, as well as Congress and the Pr...
- Added: Dec 29, 2012
- Length: 28:18
