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Top of Mind - What Does It Mean to Be White in America
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Many Americans with white skin have begun to think explicitly about race and its consequences. What does it mean to be white in America?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KOWS, and KMXT


  • Added: May 24, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
  • Purchases: 3
Spoiler Alert: The Threat of Third Parties, A 2024 Election Special
From: Mateo Schimpf
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We all get a vote...but do we really get a choice?

Bought by Classic107.3, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 23, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Down-Ballot Politics With Daniel Nichanian of Bolts
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Daniel Nichanian
Election season is still a few months away, but the scent of it is already on the wind. There is a lot at stake in the presidential election, of co...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
David Brooks on Why America Needs to Love Thy Neighbor
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Meet me in the middle

Bought by Classic107.3, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 3
Should Congress Pass the Secure the Border Act?
From: Open to Debate
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In response to a surge in migrants and asylum seekers at America’s borders, the Secure the Border Act of 2023 aims to enforce stricter limitations ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 14, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Israel, Hamas & Universal Human Rights: Former UN Official Craig Mokhiber Describes Path Forward
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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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
How Would A No Labels Presidential Candidate Change the Outcome in 2024?
From: Open to Debate
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The centrist group No Labels is planning a bipartisan nominating convention, leading to speculation that they may promote a third-party candidate f...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Josh Paul Reveals The Truth Behind US Arms Supply to Israel
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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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
The Systemic Challenges of Addressing Homelessness, with Tony Sparks
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we explore the persistent challenge of how to ensure that everyone has adequate housing. We discuss why the U.S. faces these issue...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
The GOP, Gun Violence, and a Great Plan
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
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
70 Million - Highway Robbery: How a Small Town Traffic Trap Became A Legal Black Hole
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Sandra Harris, photographed in her home. , Credit: Amarr Croskey
On today's show, we hear a story from our podcast partner 70 Million about a small town in Alabama, where an eager new police chief, unsuspecting m...

Bought by WUWM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin on Meaningful Reform of Our Criminal Justice System
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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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
Should SCOTUS Focus on the Original Meaning of the Constitution?
From: Open to Debate
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Originalism is a way of interpreting the Constitution that could help it be understood through either framer’s intent or what the public would’ve i...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 08, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Should Congress Abolish the Debt Ceiling?
From: Open to Debate
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The US has more than $31 trillion in national debt. If it is breached, the government may go into default, leading to national and global consequen...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jun 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Special Report: Deciding the Fate of Democracy in North Carolina
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this special report, we examine anti-democratic election law and a legal case — Moore vs. Harper — which is to be decided this term by the US Su...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Is The Democratic Party Too Far Left?
From: Open to Debate
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Defund the police. Abolish ICE. Redistribute the wealth. These are a few of the one-liners from the liberal wing of the Democratic party, but there...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Pandemic and Profit
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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
The Impacts of Mass Corporate Real Estate Ownership on Communities and Affordability
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
Caption: Screenshot of SF Chronicle's Interactive Real Estate Map, Credit: San Francisco Chronicle
In this episode, we explore the Bay Area housing market, and how mass corporate ownership of homes and apartments throughout the region affects com...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
The untold story of Trump's botched impeachments
From: Playbook Deep Dive
Series: Playbook Deep Dive
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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
The Bitter End to democracy? Hindsight is 20/20.
From: Playbook Deep Dive
Series: Playbook Deep Dive
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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
When Senator Leahy laughed with Raul Castro
From: Playbook Deep Dive
Series: Playbook Deep Dive
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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
Ron Klain says ‘season of substance’ could save Dems
From: Playbook Deep Dive
Series: Playbook Deep Dive
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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
Byrd nerds: Why the byzantine process of budget reconciliation exists and how it actually works
From: Playbook Deep Dive
Series: Playbook Deep Dive
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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
Biden’s big bill: Two GOP strategists on how to kill it
From: Playbook Deep Dive
Series: Playbook Deep Dive
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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
Legalizing the trip: One ‘shroom advocate’s playbook
From: Playbook Deep Dive
Series: Playbook Deep Dive
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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