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- A New Year’s resolution for progressives: Hold fast and work for victory
Rob Schofield, 1/2/2018
- Barry Yeoman - Rebel Towns
Rebel Towns
Barry Yeoman
This article appeared in the February 4, 2013 edition of The Nation.
Call it municipal disobedience: communities like Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, are defying laws they deem illegitimate.
- Breaking the Myth (50 min)
WNYC On the Media, 1/9/2021
Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield review the events of January 6, 2020 at the Capitol, and discuss perspectives with Caroline Janney (University of Virginia), Kimberle Williams Crenshaw (UCLA and Columbia Law School), Jack Hamilton (University of Virginia).
- CDC Medical Detectives - new book (3 min)
Smallpox eradication, importance of behavior, climate change
- Civil Rights Attorney On How She Built Trust With Police
NPR Morning Edition
Civil Rights Attorney On How She Built Trust With Police
December 05, 2014 3:33 AM ET
Interview with Constance Rice of the Advancement Project
- Diane Rehm Show - Debate Over Decriminalizing Prostitution
May 9, 2016 When Amnesty International last year called for the decriminalization of the global sex trade, reaction from all sides was swift and passionate. Those in agreement argued this kind of policy serves to protect sex workers the world over. On the other side: the voices of those who called it a monumental mistake, allowing criminal and exploitative practices against women who may have no way out of the sex trade. As the debate has grown, new reporting is underscoring the deep ideological divide that has emerged between feminists on either side of this issue. We look at the debate over decriminalizing prostitution. Guests Emily Bazelon staff writer, The New York Times Magazine; Truman Capote fellow at the Yale Law School Taina Bien-Aimé executive director, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Liesl Gerntholtz executive director: women’s rights division, Human Rights Watch Mistress Matisse Seattle-based dominatrix; sex worker and sex workers rights activist for over twenty years Rachel Moran activist, sex trade survivor, author of "Paid For: My Journey through Prostitution"
- Dream team of historians proposed to advise US president
Collin Binkley, Associated Press, Aug 24, 2016 Professors Graham Allison and Niall Ferguson are calling on the next U.S. president to create a Council of Historical Advisers that would tackle present problems by looking to the past.
- Fresh Air - How Thousands Of Nazis Were 'Rewarded' With Life In The U.S.
How Thousands Of Nazis Were 'Rewarded' With Life In The U.S.
November 05, 2014 3:09 PM ET
In his new book, The Nazis Next Door, Eric Lichtblau reports that thousands of Nazis managed to settle in the United States after World War II, often with the direct assistance of American intelligence officials who saw them as potential spies and informants in the Cold War against the Soviet Union.
- https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/opinions/trumps-terrible-choice-for-cdc-redfield-garrett/index.html
Why Trump's new CDC director is an abysmal choice. By Laurie Garrett, former senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. CNN, May 13, 2018. Includes salaries for HHS officials as well as historical background about Redfield's past activities in relation to the HIV epidemic.
- IRS watchdog warns of scaled-back service in agency plans
IRS watchdog warns of scaled-back service in agency plans Andrew Taylor, Associated Press, Jan. 6, 2016
- NPR - Power And Struggle In A Soviet Symphony
Power And Struggle In A Soviet Symphony
November 08, 2014 5:52 AM ET
Marin Alsop
on Shostakovich 5th Symphony
Shostakovich: Notes for Stalin is a new Symphonic Play™ by writer and director Didi Balle, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's very own playwright-in-residence.
- PBS Frontline - Immigration Battle (114 min)
Immigration Battle October 20, 2015 - PBS Frontline "Why has it been so hard for Washington to fix our broken immigration system?"
- Peter Kwong - Why China's Corruption Won't Stop
Why China's Corruption Won't Stop
The Communist Party is failing to heed demands for political reform.
Peter Kwong
April 3, 2013 | This article appeared in the April 22, 2013 edition of The Nation.
- Ray Gronberg - McCrory unhappy with Senate sales-tax plan
McCrory unhappy with Senate sales-tax plan Ray Gronberg, Herald-Sun, Jun. 19, 2015 Raises fascinating questions about appropriate sharing of tax revenues across jurisdictions.
- Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself
Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself
Vox, Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Updated by Andrew Prokop on January 19, 2015, 10:05 a.m. ET
See also http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html?_r=2&referrer=
- Return of Syphilis
Jan Hoffman, NY Times, Aug 24, 2017. Outbreaks of a deadly, sexually transmitted disease confound health officials, whose obstacles include drug shortages, uneducated doctors and gangs.
- Ron Haskins - Social Programs That Work
Ron Haskins is co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution and co-author of “Show Me the Evidence: Obama’s Fight for Rigor and Results in Social Policy.” NY Times Op-Ed, 12/31/2014
- The secret recordings of Carmen Segarra
Co-published by ProPublica and This American Life
- This American Life - 614: The Other Mr. President
This American Life, April 14, 2017 Since Russia meddled in our election, there's been concern that the fake news and disinformation that's so prevalent there could be taking hold in this country. But is that hyperbole? This week we look at what it's actually like to live in the confusing information landscape that is Putin's Russia. Prologue - Ira talks to Russian reporter Anna Nemtsova in Moscow about the recent subway bombing in St. Petersburg and the conspiracy theories she heard from Russians as soon as news about the bombing started to spread. Anna Nemtsova is a correspondent for The Daily Beast and Newsweek. (5 minutes) Ira quotes this recent article in The Guardian about Putin by Keith Gessen. Ira Glass Act One - Back in 1999 there was a series of bombings of apartment buildings in Moscow and across Russia. 300 people died. It happened just as Vladimir Putin was coming to power. And there was a question whether Putin or other people in the Kremlin might have been involved. Producer Robyn Semien talked to reporters who covered the bombings and reviewed the evidence. (20 minutes) Robyn talks to reporter Scott Anderson in this story. His article "None Dare Call It a Conspiracy" originally appeared in the pages of GQ. Robyn Semien Act Two - Vladmir Putin’s approval rating is a seemingly unreal 84%. Ira talks to reporter Charles Maynes to find out if that number is real and how it could be that high. Then Charles talks to a Putin supporter who explains why she loves her president. (10 minutes) Ira Glass Act Three - Disinformation and propaganda works differently in Putin’s Russia than it did during the Soviet Union. Instead of tamping down the opposition, the Russian government works to control the opposition. Producer Sean Cole introduces us to Putin’s right-hand man who is credited with inventing this new way of controlling information. (15 minutes) One of the journalists Sean speaks to in this story is Peter Pomerantsev. He’s the author of the book "Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia." Peter Pomerantsev wrote about Vladislav Surkov for The Atlantic. Sean Cole Act Four - The anti-government protests last month in Russia were surprising for a few reasons – including the fact that they included tons of young people. After the protests, teenagers started posting videos to the internet of their teachers lecturing them about the protests and the kids arguing back. (7 minutes) Ira talks to reporter Joshua Yaffa about a video that one student filmed in the town of Bryansk. Joshua Yaffa wrote about the protest and the video for The New Yorker. Ira Glass
- Urban and rural NC officials fight over tax distribution
Urban and rural NC officials fight over tax distribution John Moritz, Associated Press, Saturday, July 11, 2015
- US News - Stop Bashing the CDC
Stop bashing the CDC. America has a habit of mistreating government organizations until disaster strikes.
By David Brodwin Oct. 24, 2014, US News