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News and features on global conflict.

  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 07:39
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The ten most water-stressed countries in the world – gosh, it sounds like a bad Buzzfeed article - are all in the Middle East or North Africa. Yeme...

  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 08:12
Caption: Jane York and Nura Adam embrace at a meeting, Credit: Lisa Merrill, Bellevue WA
In Bellevue, Washington a group of women meet once a month to discuss their cultural differences and similarities. The conversations are transformi...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2013
  • Length: 08:43
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This month on War News Radio, “Forward Thinking”, we first discuss the future of Iraq in light of the ten year anniversary this past March. Then, w...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 30:01
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Imagine paying almost nothing in taxes.. Sounds great doesn’t it? Some of America’s biggest companies are doing just that and making millions...or...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
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Vietnamese fishing communities are still finding themselves grounded by the BP oil spill, one of the largest environmental disasters of the century...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 10:20
Caption: Cherubin Bancoult sings Chagossian sega, Credit: Raphaël Krafft
The small island nation, the Republic of Mauritius, marks the 45th anniversary of independence from British rule this week. But one group isn’t cel...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 06:11
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Air Occupy presents voices from the Forward on Climate Rally in Washington, D.C. on February 17. Interviews with rally participants and sounds fro...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:06
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An hour-long radio documentary examining sexual assault on high school-aged girls in Indiana, featuring stories of sexual assault survivors, as wel...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 53:59
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The original vinyl soundtrack from the famed "March on Washington" including Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech in it's entirety, alo...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 58:03
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This week on Into It, Andrew Bales explores space dives, an extreme jump that tests the limits of technology and the wills of dare devils.

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
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A look at the issues affecting the various people of our planet

  • Added: Dec 16, 2012
  • Length: 27:30
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Greg Auger's life was forever changed when he met the bat researching legend Don Griffin. This is the story of the two men, a pond, and what happen...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2012
  • Length: 08:05
Caption: Phil Gruppuso, Brown University, Credit: Brown University
Medical school isn’t what it used to be. Budding doctors have to learn more and study harder than they ever have. And changes in the health care sy...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 03:37
Caption: Gary Hotsfall, a student at Western Governor’s University Washington. WGU is a network of nonprofit online universities., Credit: Stephen Smith
Digital technologies are changing how many Americans go to college - from online courses to robo-tutors. Can these innovations make college cheaper...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: A class at the University of Phoenix's Hohokam campus in Arizona. Phoenix is the nation's largest for-profit university and largely serves working adults. , Credit: Brian Pobuda/University of Phoenix
The rapid rise of career-oriented, for-profit colleges and universities has provoked heated debate about the costs, quality and purpose of higher e...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
Caption:  YES Prep students at an informational session at the University of Oklahoma. YES Prep is a charter school network that serves a low-income population in Houston, Tex. and focuses on getting all of its students accepted into 4-year colleges. , Credit: YES Prep Public Schools
Why are so many low-income students quitting college, and what leads a few to beat the odds and make it through? (8/30/2012)

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In 1913, the American Social Hygiene Association launched a campaign to eradicate sexually transmitted diseases and prostitution. The subject was c...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:06
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Around the world, students have been taking to the streets. They’re opposed to rising tuition fees and cuts to education. On this edition, we’ll ...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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It took 40 years to build ACORN, but just a few months to bring it down. Local organizers are trying to rebuild, but how is ACORN’s absence affect...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
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In California, there are hundreds if not thousands of people practicing criminal law though they’ve never passed a bar exam. They don’t wear suits....

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  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 14:10
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Caption: Future Docs Peter Kaminski and Sarah Rapoport, Credit: RIPR
Meet Sarah Rapoport and Peter Kaminski, second year medical students we're following as part of our year-long series, Future Docs.

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 07:40
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When Minneapolis officials shut down a scandal sheet publisher for printing malicious and defamatory material it sparked our country's first debate...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 27:37
Caption: Sunland Park, New Mexico, Credit: Samat Jain
In 2011 and 2012, the small New Mexico border community of Sunland Park made regional headlines and national news for its political scandals. Delvi...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 28:59
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Every summer, wildfires torch thousands of acres of land. The National Forest Service rushes to the rescue; to save lives, homes, and communities. ...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:01