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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
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
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
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
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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on putting anti-choice women out front in the fight over restricting abortion in Texas.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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Mandated term limits for Congressional members gets batted around now and then as a possible solution for gridlock which some say is driven by the...

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 03:46
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Bobby speaks with Dr. Lawrence Gelman, a South Texas-based physician, hospital administrator, novice rancher, conservative activist and media perso...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:05:50
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A solid political party structure broadens the focus of campaigns from the "me' to the "we", the electorate. Me Radio is an example of how that mig...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:37
Caption: Authorizing for the alignment took a year. Now he'd like to get the car's oil changed., Credit: Susan Cook
The last we checked on managed car , a disappointed car owner was unable to receive prior authorization from his Automobile Behavioral Health cus...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:38
Caption: San Quentin State Prison
In 1851, the government of the new state of California legalized executions. But it wasn’t until 1891 that the state legislature required all execu...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 26:32
Caption: Let us anticipate what we lose if we hand over the democracy ground game. , Credit: Susan Cook
The Mayor of New York held a big fundraiser in New York recently to support candidates who want consensus in Washington. As we listen to Mr. Bloomb...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:52
Caption: Organically-grown political influence is made in one way- and money can't buy it. , Credit: Susan Cook
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
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A debate from Oakland, California between practitioners of non-violence, versus those who believe a diversity of tactics is what Occupy needs to mo...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Ven diagrams were very confusing. , Credit: Susan Cook
Freedom of Speech began long ago in a tiny town called Fragile Rock when the people finally declared "We are the overlapping section of the Ven dia...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Dec 09, 2011
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 1
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This program is the first of a two part series with Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman, recorded on August 8, 2011 in the Radio Curious studios. S...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: The Ponies would act fast when funding was cut. , Credit: Susan Cook
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
Caption: John McWhorter
Does the conventional language used to discuss race actually impede our attempts to reach mutual understanding? We discuss the language of race wit...

Bought by KWMR, WGBH Radio Boston, and WTIP


  • Added: Feb 09, 2010
  • Length: 27:45
  • Purchases: 3
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Teenagers talk about the realities of their sex lives and what they've figured out this far.

Bought by KZYX and Remix Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Seattle HempFest 06, Credit: hempfest.org
On 3/26/09 President Obama delivers a snub to millions of Americans who wanted to ask him about ending marijuana prohibition.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2009
  • Length: 07:25
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The "Without Comment" series began last April with a look at the Democratic primaries using only sound bites from politicians, political pundits an...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: 16:35
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Behind the protest hype at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver

Bought by PRX Election Podcast


  • Added: Sep 03, 2008
  • Length: 02:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Ms. Clinton's cleavage stirs controversy. What's wrong with us?

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
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As one of the most outspoken critics of the war in Iraq and the Bush administration, British Parliament member George Galloway has made a name for ...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 28:01
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Moussaoui verdict and us, in Ian's opinion.

  • Added: May 31, 2006
  • Length: 01:52
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Norml Stamper, fomer Seattle Police Chief, speaks about his first Marijuana bust in 1968

  • Added: May 03, 2006
  • Length: 07:31
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Active Voices: Jane Midgley- Women and the US Budget

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Nov 03, 2005
  • Length: 05:09
  • Purchases: 1