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Land Grant University Systems Stirs Questions With Recent Investigation
From: KRCL
Caption: Indigenous college student, Alina Sierra, Credit: Bean Yazzie / Grist
Two-way interview with Tristan Ahtone, a member of the Kiowa Tribe and Grist editor-at-large investigates the Land Grant University system.

  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 05:57
John Donvan in Conversation with Mehdi Hasan
From: Open to Debate
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How can we argue in good faith, communicate confidently, and uncover new ideas through debate? Journalist, broadcaster, and best-selling author Meh...

  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
The A-Word
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, we explore an often-overlooked issue in the Arab world; racism towards Black Arabs. In this episode, Kerning Culture reporter Ahmed Twai...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
70 Million – Forget Reform, They Want Abolition
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mike Milton at the Freedom Community Center in St. Louis, MO., Credit: Joe Martinez
This week on Making Contact we're taking you to St. Louis, Missouri with the Podcast 70 Million to learn about the city's ongoing efforts to re-ima...

Bought by WXDU, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, and WFHB


  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Hunger Strike! How Immigrant Taxi Drivers Took on City Hall
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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New York City taxi drivers were drowning in debt because they had to buy their licenses from the city. We join our friends at the podcast Self-Evid...

Bought by WXDU, WFHB, RadioFreePalmer, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Cunning Figure of the Virus
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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As the Delta variant reaches into more communities..."The fact that the Virus is a symptom of capitalism seems like a simple conclusion, but Povine...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Aug 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Electoral College’s Dirty History (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Given the election, and the difference between popular votes and electoral votes, we revisit our show on the Electoral College. It’s history in the...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Kathleen Curry: Modern woman of the West
From: Alan Wartes
Series: ThinkRadio Presents ThinkBusiness
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In this episode of ThinkRadio Presents ThinkPeople host Alan Wartes spoke with former Colorado legislator Kathleen Curry.

  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Michael Eric Dyson on Trump, Truth, and Race
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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America’s unwillingness to assess the ugly truth about systemic inequality has created a perpetual sinkhole of denial. A reality that existed long ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
321: Building A Better Ballot Box / 322: Is The Nation State Splintering?, 11/3/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Building A Better Ballot Box" - Compulsory voting? Pay citizens? Let children vote? This hour, we'll find a better way to do elections. ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
Interview with civil liberties attorney Burt Neuborne about his book "Madison's Music: On Reading the First Amendment"
From: Out of Bounds
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Civil liberties attorney, educator, author of "Madison’s Music: On Reading the First Amendment"

  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
Greg Palast - Interstate Crosscheck goes to Washington!! - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two-part interview with Greg Palast, investigative journalist and author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: A Tal...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
The Poetic Address to the Nation
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The Poetic Address to the Nation, brought together poets to speak powerfully against the current administration. Featuring Cam Awkward, Guillermo G...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WRIR


  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Malcolm Nance - The Russian Role in the 2016 Election - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents Malcolm Nance, author of The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Elect...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Jan 03, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Rick Shenkman - Just How Stupid Are We? - Part 1
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Rick Shenkman author of Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:37
Rick Shenkman - Just How Stupid Are We? - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Rick Shenkman author of Political Animals: How Our Stone-Age Brain Gets in the Way of Smart...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
Dr. Fania Davis - Healing the Wounds of Racism - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Dr. Fania Davis. Dr. Davis is Executive Director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, ...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
Part 2 of our interview with "American Amnesia" author Jacob Hacker
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra continues his conversation with Jacob S. Hacker, author of "American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made ...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 30:30
Jane Mayer on the Hidden History of America’s Billionaires
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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How are the superrich’s priorities transforming American society? Journalist Jane Mayer’s new book is Dark Money, the Hidden History of the Billion...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WRIR


  • Added: Jun 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Larry Hildes, Civil Rights Attorney, and Karen Weill, Legal Assistant, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Karen Weill and Larry Hildes
Interview: Larry and Karen continue to explain a complicated legal case that exposes the federal government’s overreach and abusive spying policie...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 1
Larry Hildes, Civil Rights Attorney, and Karen Weill, Legal Assistant, Part 1
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Karen Weill and Larry Hildes
Interview: Larry and Karen explain a complicated legal case in two interviews that exposes the federal government’s overreach and abusive spying p...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2015
  • Length: 27:53
Dr Robert Jensen about economic fundamentalism and imperialism
From: Latin Waves Media
Series: Latin Waves Media
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Robert Jensen is a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and author of “Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Human...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 23:37
Political Junkie 8-6-14
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Political Junkie (Minisodes)
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On the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's resignation, Political Junkie host Ken Rudin chats with John Dean, former White House counsel ...

Bought by KCCU Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRKF, WXXI Rochester, and KUER


  • Added: Aug 06, 2014
  • Length: 08:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Citizen's Guide to Gunnel Grabbing in American Politics
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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Expert canoe paddlers know that a predictable sign that swimming is imminent when the canoe starts to tip in rough water is the grabbing of the can...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:03
March of the Bonus Army
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project
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In the summer of 1932, a group of World War I veterans in Portland, Oregon hopped a freight train and started riding the rails to Washington DC.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KPIK-LP, PRX Remix, WRPI, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Feb 19, 2013
  • Length: 11:56
  • Purchases: 5