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A Council on Academic Freedom launched at Harvard March 2023 and has some similar goals to a panel I helped create with Yale President Peter Salove...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 35:37
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On this week’s episode, we discuss climate policy with former California Governor Jerry Brown, oceanographer Sylvia Earle and former Colombian pres...

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


  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Vanessa from Austin, Texas, talks about why she wants the detention centers at the border to be closed. She describes what she saw in the children'...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2019
  • Length: 04:10
Caption: Jerry Mead-Lucero, Labor Express Radio
Interview by Rich Austin: Jerry talks about how working class issues are not covered by our main stream media. For more information, go to https:...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2016
  • Length: 27:51
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Host Doug Storm is joined by Scott Horton, attorney and contributing editor at Harper’s Weekly, author of the recent book, The Lords of Secrecy: Th...

  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:02:00
Caption: An old clutch replaced might work better..., Credit: Susan Cook
In politics, arrogance can be hired, purchased or -in volunteer organizations- a gratuity that comes with volunteer labor.- or elected. In Maine ...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2014
  • Length: 05:14
Caption: ...including the mouse., Credit: Susan Cook
Sometimes, there is an ineffable quality to the offensiveness of negative campaign ads. We turn here to the sonnet to express deep concern about n...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: :57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In the 1950’s and 1960’s American citizens and the stalwart among them who were brave enough to run for political office had to learn to live with...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 06:04
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
Caption: Job Creators, Credit: Brad Kayal
It began with an on-air rant by CNBC commentator Rick Santelli. It became a major political movement, with elected representatives on Capitol Hill....

  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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Author Glenn Greenwald talks about his book, ‘With Liberty and Justice for Some.’ Americans claim to live under the rule of law; that no one is abo...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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
Caption: If they chew it and it is still writhing, continuing to chew is profound., Credit: Susan Cook
As the dust settles from the Iowa Caucuses , it is time to sniff, dig and if necessary chew and swallow pettiness and small-mindedness where found....

  • Added: Jan 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:29
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro discusses the fall of Merrill Lynch, the Wall Street firm he worked for as a stockbroker. He compares the greed and ineptitude of Thain...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:09
Caption: NPR CEO Vivian Schiller, Credit: Sam Hurd
National Public Radio (NPR) President and CEO Vivian Schiller spoke at a National Press Club Luncheon on Monday, March 7th.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2011
  • Length: 54:01
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Without Comment is a 13 week series looking at the first 100 days of the Barack presidency.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 09:45
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Commentary on the recent decision in Kansas to restrict library books.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2009
  • Length: 02:47
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What separates a "flip-flop" from a valid change of mind

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 24, 2008
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Sunshine Week

  • Added: Mar 16, 2008
  • Length: 02:16
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Candidates and Section 315

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2008
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Open Government and Open Records

  • Added: Nov 18, 2007
  • Length: 02:26
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How far has the once-mighty CBS fallen

  • Added: Aug 26, 2007
  • Length: 02:56
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Greg Palast speaking on his book "Armed Madhouse"

  • Added: May 04, 2007
  • Length: 59:21