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Host Doug Storm is joined by District 5 candidates for the Democratic nomination to run for the Bloomington City Council seat in November.
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 58:36
We're asking the $64,000 question: can we build a more crash-proof, less leveraged, more equitable financial system? Our guest Jeremy Allaire would...
- Added: Mar 31, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
Pregnant with options. There’s the stroller, the crib and the adorable baby clothes. And, for more than 50,000 women each year birthing plans also ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 17, 2015
- Length: 14:17
- Purchases: 1
We’re revisiting the Attica prison revolt in 1971. It began as a civil rights protest and ended in a massacre when Governor Nelson Rockefeller orde...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZYX
- Added: Mar 15, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 2
This month on "Impact," we're taking a close look at a huge issue--legacy. In this case, we're examining how it relates to contemporary philanthrop...
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 27:55
The internet is anonymous. Except for when it isn't. When someone wants to hurt you, they can find your address and other personal information and ...
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 17:03
- Purchases: 3
On this Kickstarter-launch week we’re diagnosing America’s healthcare woes with the meta-journalist and heart patient, Steve Brill.
- Added: Jan 25, 2015
- Length: 58:37
Even if universities are not for profit, budgets loom large in higher education--and global markets hold revenue potential. In this episode, we loo...
- Added: Jan 14, 2015
- Length: 21:41
Starting last month, the American freeze-out of Communist Cuba, which long outlasted the Cold War, began to come to an end. It may have been a smal...
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- Added: Jan 12, 2015
- Length: 58:37
- Purchases: 1
By using a single organization, SaveLIFE Foundation in India, as a case study, this episode of Impact explores how NGOs in emerging markets adopt b...
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- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 27:16
- Purchases: 1
The news from the big-money midterm is: meh!
Democrats are out, the Republicans are in, and the country’s feeling bluer than ever. Six years after...
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 58:37
We wrap up our three-part series on data and privacy with a look at some ways big data can improve our communities. Technology and big data are del...
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- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
On this first program we look at the legacy of one of the most important American diplomats in the post cold war era - Richard C. Holbrooke
- Added: Jul 15, 2014
- Length: 52:36
With the deadline looming for agreement on the P5+1 negotiations with Iran, Senior Fellow David Speedie interviews Dr. Gareth Porter, scholar, jour...
- Added: Jul 15, 2014
- Length: 31:01
David Bromwich introduces us to the conservative hero Edmund Burke, the 18th-century British statesman who befriended the American Revolution, hate...
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- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 58:36
- Purchases: 1
Derek Bok is the only two-time president of Harvard University, which is to say he has twice reinvented the management of the oldest, richest, mayb...
- Added: May 21, 2014
- Length: 31:11
- Purchases: 2
Can today's powerful multinational corporations be a force for social good? Should they be, and if so, how should this be implemented? Are they out...
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 21:27
In an unprecedented event this Spring, the Sunflower Student Movement occupied Taiwan's Legislative Yuan for over three weeks in protest against a ...
- Added: Apr 23, 2014
- Length: 26:20
In Missing Class, Betsy Leondar-Wright looks at class dynamics in twenty-five groups of social movement organizations. Included in her study are; t...
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
Richard Rhodes is the go-to analyst of nuclear weapons for most of thirty years now ever since the publication of his acclaimed history of the Manh...
- Added: Apr 12, 2014
- Length: 22:23
Discussions among the Iran and the P5 countries and Germany on the Iranian nuclear energy program are ongoing in Vienna. William O. Beeman, profess...
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 32:14
Has the perception of whistleblowers changed? With high-profile cases like Edward Snowden and increased protections for those who accuse their empl...
- Added: Mar 17, 2014
- Length: 21:21
"Globally, have we reached a point where we accept that genocide is not acceptable? I think we have. But what to do about it is something different...
- Added: Nov 19, 2013
- Length: 04:29
The 2013 Global Gender Gap Index from the World Economic Forum is out. It measures overall equality between women and men in 136 countries. Is th...
- Added: Oct 31, 2013
- Length: 02:30
"There are values that those of us from Western liberal societies hold dear and believe should be universal. But they're not. And that produces the...
- Added: Oct 11, 2013
- Length: 03:42
