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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
Host Doug Storm offers selections from two previous shows on the state of public education in Indiana and the nation.
- Added: Oct 28, 2014
- Length: 59:11
The shooting at Seattle Pacific University marks the latest gun-related tragedy in the U.S. It follows the attacks in Isla Vista at UC Santa Barbar...
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- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 09:14
- Purchases: 1
As of the latest national elections, it costs approximately $1 billion to become president, $10 million to become a Senator, and $1 million to beco...
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- Added: Aug 21, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
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
In every police department, there’s a special division just for policing the cops. Its responsible for investigating all officer misconduct, includ...
- Added: Sep 17, 2013
- Length: 10:45
50 years after the March on Washington, syndicated columnist Reverend Byron Williams makes the case that 1963 was the pivotal year for American cul...
- Added: Aug 18, 2013
- Length: 29:00
"More and more of the things that countries, nations, governments want to do for their citizens can't be done nationally. They have to reach out to...
- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 04:15
"So I suppose, looking forward, what I would hope to see is a greater awareness of the richness of individual identities and less attention given t...
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 04:16
"I think what is morally distinct is our consciousness of the disconnect between our values, our aspirations, our capabilities, and our deliverable...
- Added: Aug 06, 2013
- Length: 03:44
"For me, leadership is also feminine. I always say that the men who have feminine values are part of the criteria for me to look for in leadership....
- Added: Jul 16, 2013
- Length: 04:04
"The whole moral equation has become incredibly difficult, whether in terms of space or in terms of time. The moral community is now spread out acr...
- Added: Jul 03, 2013
- Length: 03:47
"Most people, once they become more and more aware, they are in a better position to demand better policies in their own country and they are more ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2013
- Length: 04:00
"One of the things I've seen over my lifetime is a move away from war and from the place of the military in political life. This to me is astonishi...
- Added: Jul 03, 2013
- Length: 04:32
"Each of us can do a little bit, and we have to pick a piece where we feel an interest and think we have a comparative advantage and try to work on...
- Added: Jun 19, 2013
- Length: 05:00
"We still view ourselves as the land of opportunity, which, in a sense we are. But the opportunities are not trickling down to the bottom the way t...
- Added: May 28, 2013
- Length: 03:36
"To use the New Testament sort of logic, who is my neighbor? Today that extends not only to your family or your literal neighbors. We know much mor...
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 04:13
"What many people can no longer claim is ignorance, especially those of us that do have easy access to technology. We know not only that these prob...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 03:22
