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An audio producer falls into step with a global advocacy campaign at the very moment it rises to call for mandatory action to fortify staple foods ...
- Added: Apr 20, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Less than a year after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, some states are rethinking their abortion bans.
This week, reporter Alice Miranda...
- Added: Mar 13, 2023
- Length: 19:26
- Added: Mar 03, 2023
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 1
People leaving jail and prison are at extremely high risk of hospitalization and death. This week, why policymakers from deep blue California to so...
- Added: Feb 24, 2023
- Length: 26:10
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
The sordid story of the corrupt Monsanto corporation, which created a highly toxic, cancer-causing pesticide and then developed GMO crops that were...
- Added: Jan 15, 2023
- Length: 28:32
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
Are artificial turf fields causing cancer in young athletes?
- Added: Dec 12, 2022
- Length: 28:14
The final episode of the season explores whether ballot initiatives can withstand the challenges they’re up against, and some groups are looking to...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 24:47
State legislatures across the country have taken notice of how ballot initiatives are creating political change. And now they're trying to make it ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 29:28
By design, ballot initiatives require coalitions that cross party lines to secure the votes needed to win. Some campaign organizers view this rule ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 35:48
An online community of adoptees fight for their birth records in 1990s Oregon - framing the issue around civil rights instead of parent/child relat...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 35:25
In the words of one expert, California has “gone crazy for propositions.” In this episode, we tell the story of one of the state’s most notorious b...
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 30:41
Yoshi Fields doesn’t eat pigs, but he traveled across Israel tracing the history of pork in the Holy Land. Along the way, he learned how, over the ...
- Added: Jun 20, 2022
- Length: 35:26
Why is a Nazi resistance fighter famous in Brazil yet unheard of in Germany? How did an African American musician become a hero in East Germany? Di...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: May 26, 2022
- Length: 29:35
- Purchases: 1
As 6 Supreme Court Justices end Roe v. Wade, shaming and humiliating Pro-Choice advocates becomes the anti-choice strategy.
- Added: May 21, 2022
- Length: 06:13
Thrift shops are much more than second-hand junk shops, they’re often treasure troves, chock full of goods, ready for the taking. They run the gamu...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 28:34
After saying no to a mining company, six Indigenous leaders from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug in northern Ontario, Canada, were sent to jail. They'...
- Added: May 10, 2022
- Length: 28:05
The Leesburg Bike Fest roars to life during the last full weekend in April. “Welcome bikers”, the sign reads upon entering the rally. The annual Ga...
- Added: May 03, 2022
- Length: 04:55
An immunosuppressed physician explains what navigating her life – and her workplace – is like in this COVID-fatigued world.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Apr 07, 2022
- Length: 14:43
- Purchases: 1
America’s largest health insurance companies moonlight as obscure middlemen, managing billions in health care spending for many of the country’s bi...
- Added: Mar 31, 2022
- Length: 26:58
This year, even with its dashed hopes and fear of "deja vu all over again" an abundance of good prevailed.
- Added: Dec 30, 2021
- Length: 03:45
Ride along with a sanitation worker who collects everything in San Francisco’s blue bins, and learn some dos and don’ts of recycling at a Recology ...
- Added: Dec 23, 2021
- Length: 29:30
Getting vaccinated and wearing a mask may be all there is to making someone happy in Covid-19 times.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Nov 26, 2021
- Length: 03:52
- Purchases: 1
