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Why We Believe What We Believe (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Why do people believe weird things? That’s what Jason Hart wants to find out. He delves into the psychology behind ghost encounters, anti-vaccine ...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, WLIW, KVSC and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 13
The Untold Story of the Richard C. Wilson St. Cloud Community Outpost
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits and then revisits the Rich...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 29:54
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
Jon Motl, Pass Political Practices Commissioner of Montana
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Jon Motl
Interview by Ken Winkes: Jon reveals what happened to Montana's election laws. This story was made into a documentary called Dark Money including f...

Bought by Gallatin Valley Community Radio


  • Added: May 03, 2019
  • Length: 28:01
  • Purchases: 1
Our Walmart (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Walmart claims to provide employment and low prices, but does it do so at the social cost of low wages, anti-union activity and squeezing suppliers...

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, Harford Community Radio, KRDP, WYAP and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 8
Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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The Fall of Saigon marked the loss of a homeland for hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. This captivating NEH-funded documentary shares st...

Bought by WFAE, WPCA-LP, WCPN, Prairie Public, KVNF and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 16
Immigration Stories (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Immigrants to the United States share their personal stories of how they journeyed from Central and South America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, a...

Bought by WCPN, KXCV, WGZS, WNMU-FM, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 24, 2019
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 5
Heroes of American Dissent (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Michael Higginbotham is the author of "Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism In Post-Racial America". He has a list of people—some well known, some n...

Bought by WCNY, KICI Iowa City, WCSU-FM, WGZS, KEDT and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2019
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 13
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
The Taxcast #83: Whistleblower protection, plutocrats and dark money
From: Naomi Fowler
Series: The Taxcast
Caption: The Taxcast, Credit: Tax Justice Network
Whistleblower protection, plutocrats and dark money: the Tax Justice Network’s November 2018 podcast

  • Added: Nov 28, 2018
  • Length: 35:58
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
Making the Decision to Fight (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-We talk with one of six people suing the Trump administration for rescinding DACA, a program that allows people who came to the U.S. as undocument...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KXCV, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 9
Making the Decision to Fight (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-We talk with one of six people suing the Trump administration for rescinding DACA, a program that allows people who came to the U.S. as undocument...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WJCT, KRZA, WFHB, WLPR and more


  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 12
80: Mid-term election revisit - Kate Black, Chief of Staff for EMILY's List
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Kate Black
In 2017, 16,000 women had raised their hand to run for office. One year later, it's 42,000. But what does it actually take to to win? And what will...

Bought by WLPR , C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWIT, WNIN, KSJD and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Year of the Woman (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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- In Virginia, an unprecedented number of women were elected to the House of Delegates last year. We hear from some of those women about what it wa...

Bought by WJCT, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB), WFHB, WVAS and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 11
The Right to Dissent (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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What happens when we push back against injustice? When we stand up for what we think is right? Does the Constitution protect us? All of us? From th...

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, WFHB, WUGA (part of GPB), WYAP and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Mike Elliott, former Burlington Northern Train Engineer, Part 2
From: KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
Series: We Do the Work
Caption: Mike Elliott
Interview by Ken Winkes: Mike continues his story about his concern for train safety that lead him to become a whistle blower and put his own caree...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
Pilgrimage (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-In 1898, a black man named John Henry James was lynched in Charlottesville, Virginia, right across the street from what is now With Good Reason's ...

Bought by WCNY, WDSE, WCSU-FM, KWTF community radio for Sonoma County, WTJU and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 12
Who Owns the U.S.-Mexico Border?
From: KUER
Series: More To Say
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President Donald Trump ran for office promising to build a massive wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The wall is projected to cost billions of dol...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2018
  • Length: 25:01
After Maria: Puerto Rican Self Determination
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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While the money media shifts to emerging social crises, many continue to struggle for basic supplies, medical care, and services including electric...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Apr 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Jeannine Hill Fletcher - The Most Segregated Hour in America
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents Dr. Jeannine Hill Fletcher, professor at Fordham University and author of The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, R...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Real Causes And Solutions to Depression
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Johann Hari author of Lost Connections and Chasing the Scream
Johann Hari discusses his book, "Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions."

Bought by WCPN, KMUN, WETS, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 18, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
“Building a Wall”: Church and State in America (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-When Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia’s central Rotunda, he set out to build a temple to the book, a stunning rebuke to the Ch...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Harford Community Radio, WUGA (part of GPB), WVAS and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 9
State Representative Gene Pellowski
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique we talk with state representative Gene Pellowski about our states house sessions, state bonding bill, insurance r...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 19:47
The New Minority (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A look at what's motivating Trump's most loyal base - The invention of immigration - Why getting facts on immigration is so tough - Inside one of V...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jan 19, 2018
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 1