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National Writers Series: Barbara McQuade
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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John Bacon talks with legal analyst and author Barbara McQuade.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2024
  • Length: 54:30
Human Rights, or Right to Exist? Perspectives on Israel-Hamas War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Former US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates predicts how war in Israel could ripple through the Middle East. Then, Ray Suarez speaks with Trita Par...

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


  • Added: May 24, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
Water Security, and Why Israelis and Gazans Must Work Together
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Stories about sharing resources before and after war

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Forgetting the Lessons and Losses of Covid
From: KSFP
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The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 21:30
The American-Made Cuban Crisis
From: Mateo Schimpf
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From Crisis to Normalization – and Back Again

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Monica Guzman on the importance of curiosity to build relationships that bridge divides
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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Welcome to News in Context. I’m Gina Baleria. In this episode, we explore how bridging by building relationships and being curious can connect peo...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:30
Eco Report – February 16, 2024
From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
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Coming up in this edition of Eco Report, Agrivoltaics and Climate Resilience as Environmental Correspondent Zyro Roze brings us Part Three of his d...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:41
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...

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Sound the Alarm: An Unthinkable Return of Nuclear Warfare?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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The problem with casual talk

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  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Will Netanyahu’s Long War Wash Away Saudi Arabia 2030?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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How the War in Gaza reality-checked the region

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Rethinking Riches: The Global Push for Wealth Equality
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Why we need a global shift in the wealth paradigm

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  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Regulating Big Tech: Is TikTok Still on the Clock?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Time moves slowly... so slowly

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  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Tracking & Defending Press Freedom in the U.S.
From: Gina Baleria
Series: News In Context
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In this episode, we discuss press freedom in the U.S. in the wake of a police raid of the local paper in Marion, Kansas. In that raid, officers con...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:30
The Global Race for EVs in On… Why Detroit Unions are Slamming the Brakes
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Will the U.S. power down on electric?

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


  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
War Games: The High Stakes of North Korea’s Nuclear Armament
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Does anyone win in nuclear war?

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
January 6th and the Global Far Right Revival
From: Mateo Schimpf
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When President Trump incited his followers to storm the US Capitol, he punctured a 220-year-old tradition in the United States of America. Two year...

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  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:45
  • Purchases: 4
Women, Life, and Freedom for Iran, with Reza Aslan and Golnaz Esfandiari
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Two stories about Iranians' struggle for freedom...100 years apart.

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Misinformation and Activism: Lessons for a Post-Roe World
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Can Poland’s fight over abortion offer lessons for an uncertain future? And as Americans continue to grapple with a post-Roe future, how should tho...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
How Technology Fights – and Fuels – Misinformation
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this week’s episode of On Shifting Ground, we look at the global relationship between misinformation, war, and peace.

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  • Added: Nov 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Larry Brilliant on Stopping The Next Pandemic
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode of “On Shifting Ground,” epidemiologist Larry Brilliant joins Ray Suarez to break down what the global pandemic response com...

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  • Added: Nov 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
We Know the Heat Is Coming. SF Has a Plan.
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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San Francisco plans for future heat waves after record breaking heat in 2017 claimed six lives.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Looming shutdown at Laguna Honda Hospital was 'preventable,' doctor says
From: KSFP
Series: Civic
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Laguna Honda Hospital's certification is under review, and doctors say this was preventable.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30