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A year after SCOTUS banished abortion rights, millions of American women and girls face dire threats to their health and emotional well-being. Twen...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2023
  • Length: 56:42
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Long debunked -- the mythology of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Out of the mushroom clouds, nuclearism's dark expanding circle. And, the world’s latest n...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:21
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Sheri McWhirter talks with environmental authors Jerry Dennis and Dave Dempsey.

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 2
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Jack Eidt discusses new government transitions in Honduras and Colombia. Professor Gerard Pigeon covers the history of Haiti, and why we have seen...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A look at the legacy of John Muir, his actions in Yosemite, and the impacts on the Indigenous people in the area.

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 25:47
  • Purchases: 1
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Part 2/2 in our coverage of Income Inequality and the policies and practices that led to this on "Civic."

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
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Income inequality is at a breaking point in America. "Civic" takes a look at the history of policies and programs in part 1/2.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2022
  • Length: 24:05
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A generational discussion about life in Arkansas over history

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 23:52
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Radio Curious discusses “Brothers on the Line” a film about the Reuther brothers who unionized the auto industry and galvanized the middle class. T...

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: May 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation about Ellis Island, it's history and the people who arrived there, with Andrew Weiss, a historian and then to...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
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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
Caption: May 1, 2003: President George W. Bush declares an end to major combat operations in Iraq , Credit: (Paul Morse, White House photographer).
The declaration of "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq was famously premature. But have America's other wars had neat or definitive endings?  In this ep...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFOK-LPFM, KBRP Community Radio, WRPI, Louisville Public Media and more


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Akhil Reed Amar
Yale University Law & Political Science Professor Akhil Reed Amar says the electoral college discourages voting, lessens the power of the states, a...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Repealing the union-crippling Taft-Hartley Act should have been a prime issue throughout the election campaign.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 03:13
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Before the coming of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, there was the IWW - the Industrial Workers of the World - to lead a major and fiercely fought...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 05:10
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Labor leader Art Carter was an important but now largely forgotten hero of the anti-Vietnam War movement.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:56
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Labor leader Gene Debs died 85 years ago this month, but remains an important inspiration for those struggling against powerful anti-labor forces.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:27
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In marking Ronald Reagan's centennial, don't forget he was one of the most viciously anti-labor presidents working Americans ever faced.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2011
  • Length: 06:02
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Those seeking ways to revitalize the declining US labor movement need look no further than the drive launched 75 years ago this month by the fledgl...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2010
  • Length: 03:53
Caption: Lisa Herner, Credit: Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University
Dave Zirin and Elizabeth Terzakis take a look back at the history of discrimination against women in sports, and we’ll hear where the long battle f...

Bought by WJCT, RadioStPete Florida, KMXT, 90.5 WSNC, KUT and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 6
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Is the Team of Rivals a good idea?

Bought by Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2008
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
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A new view of medieval garbage

  • Added: Oct 27, 2008
  • Length: 02:51
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Three areas in which business leaders made mistakes leading to the current weak economy.

  • Added: Jul 23, 2008
  • Length: 03:00
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The history of big money in presidential politics

Bought by PRX Election Podcast and WSHU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 53:44
  • Purchases: 2
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On the 25th anniversary of Texas resuming use of the death penalty, why it remains a necessary form of punishment.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2007
  • Length: 03:03