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Greg Palast - Crosscheck OR How to Steal an Election
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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Greg Palast, investigative journalist and author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, tells us about the successf...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2016
  • Length: 28:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Great Divide (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-Are betting markets are a more accurate predictor than election polls? -The influence of Millennials on the upcoming election. -The vast majorit...

Bought by WCNY, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 6
The Great Divide (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Are betting markets are a more accurate predictor than election polls? -The influence of Millennials on the upcoming election. -The vast majority ...

Bought by WJCT, WUGA (part of GPB), WXDU, WLIW, KKRN and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 8
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 1
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 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
Sister Simone Campbell - A Nun on the Bus - Part 1
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Sister Simone Campbell, author of A Nun on the Bus- How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, ...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
Sister Simone Campbell - A Nun on the Bus - Part 2
From: Donna Descoteaux
Series: Living Well Show
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The Living Well Show presents a two part interview with Sister Simone Campbell, author of A Nun on the Bus- How All of Us Can Create Hope, Change, ...

  • Added: Oct 12, 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
Mapping the KKK (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-An animated, online map shows for the first time just how the Ku Klux Klan spread rapidly to all 50 states between 1915 and 1940. -Tracing the “e...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KEDT, KRDP, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 19, 2016
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
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
Pulitzer100--Stories in Science (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Earth Day Specials
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-Pulitzer Prize winning author Dan Fagin's book "Tom's River: A story of Science and Salvation", on how a small town fought pollution and the pollu...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 1
Aaron Brown, author/creator of Minnesota Brown, on the current legislative session
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Author, radio producer, and college instructor Aaron Brown writes about life and politics on the Iron Range on his website, minnesotabrown.com. He ...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2016
  • Length: 19:43
Republicanese and Democratese- A Citizen's Guide to Your Hostility Curriculum
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Seventy thousand Google responses to ''Republicans Refuse'' or 37000 responses to ''Democrats Refuse'' say Donald Trump is not the first to bring ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2016
  • Length: 04:04
Jolie Justus (Serving As The First Openly Gay Senator In Missouri)
From: Matt Hodapp
Series: Paris of the Plains Podcast
Caption: https://www.flickr.com/photos/monewshorizon/5328913874/in/photostream/, Credit: Missouri News Horizon
Two years before Jolie Justus was elected the first openly gay state senator in Missouri, the General Assembly pushed an anti-gay marriage amendmen...

Bought by Wild Planet Radio


  • Added: Feb 25, 2016
  • Length: 17:03
  • Purchases: 1
Todd Gitlin: Questioning the Media's Motives
From: Arch Street Press
Series: Innovate Podcast
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In this Innovate Media interview, sociologist, political writer, novelist and cultural commentator Todd Gitlin discusses how he came to understand ...

  • Added: Jan 29, 2016
  • Length: 43:59
Life of the Law #74: Overruled
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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In the U.S., juries are often seen as democracy in action. Twelve men and women are asked to hear an entire case, and ultimately, decide another pe...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 23:13
Tent Cities: When Society Fails to House
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Nicklesville--Seattle, Credit: Sara Bernard
Tent cities have popped up across the country, from New Jersey to Texas to New Mexico. Many are starting to build more permanent living structures....

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jan 20, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Why We Owe: David Graeber on the Origins of Debt
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Wiping out debt, Credit: TaxRebate.org.uk
Anthropologist David Graeber, author of “Debt: The First 5,000 Years,” traces the history of debt to see what we can learn. His 2011 talk was recor...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Life of the Law Episode #60: The Bear
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Bounty hunters are kind of like human bloodhounds. They’re dogged. They won’t stop until they get who they’re looking for. Frank Abramovitz is a bo...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 20:22
Life of the Law Episode #57: Drag.net
From: Life of the Law
Series: Life of the Law
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Amateur sleuths armed with their own laptops, public information and a lot of spare time are working alone and in groups to crack criminal cases. S...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, KVNF, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 24, 2015
  • Length: 32:30
  • Purchases: 4
Think you know what First Amendment says? Former ACLU legal director believes we've been getting it wrong
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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Burt Neuborne, a civil liberties specialist who has argued many cases before the Supreme Court, believes the Court has misinterpreted the original ...

  • Added: May 19, 2015
  • Length: 22:35
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