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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
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
In episode two of our three-part series on the care economy: Post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health challenges can push people into...
Bought by WNED Buffalo, WGBH Radio Boston, WKSU, WGUC/ WVXU, KZYX and more
- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
Series: Going For Broke (A Three Part Series from To the Best of Our Knowledge)
In the first of three episodes of "Going For Broke," all about the care economy, we're thinking about housing. Many of us would consider it a basic...
Bought by WNED Buffalo, WGBH Radio Boston, WKSU, WGUC/ WVXU, Iowa Public Radio and more
- Added: Oct 28, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 12
Narratives are all around us. These big meta-stories tell us who we are as a nation and the values we share. Narratives help us explain why things ...
- Added: Sep 26, 2021
- Length: 02:12
March brings us Sunshine Week, an annual honoring of the ethical and legal obligation for Transparency of Public Records and the Freedom of Informa...
- Added: Jan 28, 2020
- Length: 07:22
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
Interview by Ken Winkes: Joel talks about the 43-year history of the magazine along with its mission, operations, and current politics.
- Added: Jun 14, 2019
- Length: 27:58
This American Life recently reminded us that the Democratic Party doesn't seem to get who it is anymore. Is it the Political Gamesmanship that's do...
- Added: Jan 24, 2018
- Length: 05:54
In today's Department of Poetic Justice, we offer a musical tribute to a fictional radio host, Rushton Limbo, who poetically longs for the respite ...
- Added: Oct 24, 2016
- Length: 02:53
The American voting public has become as gullible about Election polls as they are about quick weight loss plans. In Maine, Election eve, 2010, t...
- Added: Jul 23, 2016
- Length: 08:01
We live in extremely violent times. Words can provoke aggression, insult and personal harm very quickly. Politicians spend much time trying to r...
- Added: May 30, 2016
- Length: 04:26
Clean elections protect constituent rights so wealthy individuals or self-serving personal interests or six-figure job candidates don’t exploit the...
- Added: Oct 31, 2015
- Length: 05:44
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
With the election season over, the next phase of elected politics has settled on our plates like a bowl of jello. How can you tell when the age-old...
- Added: Nov 16, 2014
- Length: 01:04
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
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
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
The truth can be our moral antidote, our moral medicine, the vitamin that- yes, if someone is trying to tell us that nine dollars and something is ...
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 04:23
The public officials and the political candidates who shape public discourse through the impulsive and shallow convey far more about their ethics t...
- Added: Aug 23, 2014
- Length: 04:21
I watched a program the other night about a 500 pound gorilla, or maybe it was a monkey whose owner taught him sign language. Whatever. I am begin...
- Added: Jul 25, 2014
- Length: 04:11
Those who grew up in the era of Richard Nixon knew a time when "The Kingdom" took an especially frightening aura of power and glory. One speaking t...
- Added: Jan 12, 2014
- Length: 04:39
The Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about what is right and wrong. Today's Sixty-Second Moral Inquiry asks: Why not mangle,`distort the i...
- Added: Jan 10, 2014
- Length: 01:04
Boys' State is an experiment in Democracy that a select group of high school boys attend in Maine this week. We can hope they will learn about the...
- Added: Oct 17, 2013
- Length: 06:00
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
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
