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401 - ACGC - Exploring the Innovative Tactics of Moldova’s Anti-Corruption Prosecution Office with Veronica Dragalin
Democracy That Delivers - May 23, 2024 14:21 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsChallenged by a legacy of oligarchic state capture and a war raging in neighboring Ukraine, Moldova has made significant strides in recent years in putting in place anti-corruption structures that strengthen the rule of law and democratic institutions. In the forefront of that effort is Moldova'...
“The End of Everything,” with Victor Davis Hanson | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Uncommon Knowledge - May 15, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsClassicist Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of hundreds of articles, book reviews, and newspaper editorials on Greek, agrarian, and military history and essays on contemporary culture. He has written or edited twenty-four...
Junking Junk Fees (with Rohit Chopra)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - May 14, 2024 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsThis week, Nick and Goldy sit down with Rohit Chopra, the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to explore the agency's efforts to lower financial costs for working Americans. From cracking down on credit card late fees to tackling medical debt on credit reports and regulating ban...
400 - FEDN Small Grants - Using Democratic Spaces to Promote Ethical Practices
Democracy That Delivers - May 10, 2024 16:56 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn 2022, FEDN Member Grace Nzou began the project “Using Democratic Spaces to Promote Ethical Practices in Business.” As one of the inaugural FEDN small grants projects, the first phase of the project focused on training youth in Elgeyo Marakwet on ethical entrepreneurship. The second phase focu...
Is Hollywood’s New ‘Magical, Colorblind Past’ a Good Thing?
KQED's Forum - May 09, 2024 19:08 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsRecent Hollywood films and TV shows have taken to presenting a “Magical Multiracial Past,” according to filmmaker Kabir Chibber in a recent New York Times Magazine article. It’s a past where “every race exists, cheerfully and seemingly as equals, in the same place at the same time. History become...
House GOP Targets Berkeley Schools in Antisemitism Hearing
KQED's Forum - May 09, 2024 18:54 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsBerkeley Unified School District superintendent Enikia Ford Morthel testified before Congress on Wednesday as part of hearings examining how K-12 school districts are handling anti-semitism in the wake of the October 7 Hamas attacks and Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza. Republicans say the education ...
280. Dan Osborn. Independent Navy Veteran For Senate From Nebraska. From Steamfitter to Senate Candidate. Keeping It Real As A Winning Strategy. RFK Jr’s 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and Brain Worms. DeSantising. Little League Life Lessons.
Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff - May 09, 2024 07:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 559 ratingsWelcome back to our groundbreaking “Meet The 2024 Independent Candidates” series—highlighting independent candidates of all kinds, for all levels of office, from all across America. In our second episode in the series we met Shelane Etchison, our first independent VETERAN candidate. This episode...
Illia Ponomarenko on Reporting From Ukraine’s Front Lines
KQED's Forum - May 08, 2024 20:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsWhen Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Illia Ponomarenko was a 29-year-old journalist for the newspaper he co-founded, The Kyiv Independent. His daily, on-the-ground reporting quickly captured an international audience: by 2023 the German media organization Der Spiegel called him “likely t...
Lookout Santa Cruz Wins 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Its Storm Coverage
KQED's Forum - May 08, 2024 19:26 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsThe 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting was awarded to the staff of Lookout Santa Cruz on Monday. The prize committee praised the tiny, digital-only media outlet for its “detailed and nimble community-focused coverage” of the catastrophic flooding and mudslides last year that did grea...
Amor Towles on his New Short Story Collection 'Table for Two'
KQED's Forum - May 07, 2024 19:19 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsAmor Towles says the title of his new book “Table for Two” arose from a subconscious conviction “that our lives can often change materially due to a single conversation.” And it’s the power of a conversation – or a chance encounter or a sudden decision – to force a personal or historical reckonin...
SFMOMA’s New Collaboration with Artists with Disabilities
KQED's Forum - May 07, 2024 19:10 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsIf you go to the SFMOMA right now, it’ll be hard to miss the massive, 32-foot wide mural depicting a utopian, fantastical and hopeful version of San Francisco. The mural is the opening to a historic exhibition, “The House that Art Built,” which showcases eleven artists with developmental disabili...
Decoding the Tech Layoff Panic of 2024 (with Jeffrey Shulman)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - May 07, 2024 15:32 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsEven though the American labor market is currently stronger than it has been in decades, earlier this year Big Tech companies were laying off workers at an alarming pace. Economists struggled to understand why some 25,000 tech workers were losing their jobs, even as the media panicked about wheth...
Gaza War Ceasefire Talks Continue as Israel Threatens Rafah Invasion
KQED's Forum - May 06, 2024 19:08 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsAs the war between Israel and Hamas enters its eighth month, U.S., Egyptian and Qatari mediators are awaiting an official response from Hamas on a proposed ceasefire deal that calls for the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners. The latest reports have stated that talks have broke...
Will the U.S. Really Ban TikTok?
KQED's Forum - May 06, 2024 19:05 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsWhat’s next for TikTok? President Biden signed legislation on April 24 that would ban the popular video-sharing app unless its Chinese owner ByteDance sells to a U.S-based company. Supporters of the law say TikTok poses national security risks, warning that the Chinese government could potentiall...
California PUC Considers New Fixed Charge for Electricity
KQED's Forum - May 03, 2024 18:52 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsBeginning as early as next year you might see a new fixed monthly charge of up to $24 on your electric bill. That’s if the California Public Utilities Commission approves a proposal to rework how we pay for power. The CPUC, which is taking a vote next week, says that the new charge would lower el...
Oakland’s Leila Mottley on Her Debut Collection of Poetry ‘woke up no light’
KQED's Forum - May 03, 2024 18:47 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsIn her new book of poems, “woke up no light” Leila Mottley writes: play dead / play docile / play along / stare a beast in its mouth and dare it to bite / this is the only way to know if / the country is still hungry. We talk to Leila Mottley, who was Oakland’s 2018 Youth Poet Laureate, about her...
Alice Wong Redefines ‘Disability Intimacy’ in New Anthology
KQED's Forum - May 02, 2024 19:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratings“Intimacy is about relationships within a person’s self, with others, with communities, with nature, and beyond,” writes Alice Wong, founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project and editor of the new anthology, “Disability Intimacy.” When Wong began work on the book, she googled what...
How a Massive California Prison Hunger Strike Overhauled Solitary Confinement
KQED's Forum - May 02, 2024 18:56 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsIn 2013, inmates at Pelican Bay, a supermax California prison designed to hold large numbers of inmates in isolation, went on a hunger strike to protest indefinite solitary confinement. The hunger strike grew to include nearly 30,000 California prisoners, and led to an overhaul of prison policies...
399 - FEDN Small Grants- Democracy, A Digital Story for Young Generations Project
Democracy That Delivers - May 02, 2024 15:45 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBetween July 2024 to January 2024, CIPE supported a new project, “Democracy: A Digital Story for Young Generations” through the Kurdistan Economic Development Organization (KEDO). As part of the Free Enterprise and Democracy Network (FEDN) Small Grants initiative, they created a new website to e...
SMART Moves...BIG Gains! with Jimmy Newson | Season 5 - Episode #15
Charged Up Studio Podcast - May 02, 2024 12:51 - 47 minutesWelcome to Charged Up Studio! This week, Danna Olivo continues the "Market Smart: Winning Strategies for Small Business Success" focused series with a special guest, Jimmy Newson, also known as the Impact Influencer. As a business and growth strategist, Jimmy has helped countless small businesses...
279. Shelane Etchison. Special Operations Combat Veteran Running As An Independent For Congress From North Carolina. Can She Beat An Extreme GOP Incumbent and a Dem Who’s Not From There? Will Ft Bragg/Liberty Rally for One of Their Own? Chaos on Campuses.
Independent Americans with Paul Rieckhoff - May 02, 2024 07:01 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 559 ratingsWelcome back to our groundbreaking “Meet The 2024 Independent Candidates” series—highlighting independent candidates of all kinds, for all levels of office, from all across America. In our second episode in the series, following independent Jared Young running for Senate in Missouri, we have our ...
How to Spend this Summer Camping California
KQED's Forum - May 01, 2024 19:44 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsSummer camping season is around the corner, and California’s parks and recreation areas have something for everyone: secluded sites in the Sierra backcountry, campgrounds with RV hook-ups and a view of the Pacific, yurts, tent cabins and even campsites that float. We’ll get tips on scoring reserv...
KQED Series ‘Beyond the Menu’ Tells the Backstory of Food
KQED's Forum - May 01, 2024 19:20 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsHong Kong’s famed pineapple bun does not contain pineapples. Samosas can be found in many cultures outside of India. And the birria taco owes a lot to indigenous cultures who helped cultivate a love and devotion to chiles. These are some of the surprising food backstories that host Cecilia Philli...
Paul Wolfowitz on the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars and a Life in Foreign Policy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Uncommon Knowledge - May 01, 2024 15:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratingsCurrently a fellow at the Hoover Institution, Paul Wolfowitz previously served as director of policy planning at the State Department, as US ambassador to Indonesia, as under secretary of defense for policy, as dean of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, as ...
Inside Mexico's Clandestine Drug Treatment Centers
KQED's Forum - April 30, 2024 19:40 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsAcross Mexico, clandestine treatment centers for drug addiction – locally referred to as anexos – have been accused of unethical therapeutic practices and even patient abuse. But among Mexico’s working poor, in the absence of government support, they provide hope and protection from the country’s...
What’s Next for Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests
KQED's Forum - April 30, 2024 19:39 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsProtests against Israel’s war in Gaza continue to grow and spread on college campuses in the Bay Area and across the country. The protests gained momentum earlier this month after more than 100 demonstrators were arrested at Columbia University in protests demanding the school divest from compani...
How to Build a Just Economy (with Nick Romeo)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer - April 30, 2024 07:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsJournalist Nick Romeo joins us to discuss his new book "The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy." Romeo argues that the conventional economic wisdom has fostered political and economic instability, resulting in widening inequality, environmental degradation, and the exploitation of workers. ...
Violence Escalates in Sudan as Civil War Enters Second Year
KQED's Forum - April 29, 2024 19:45 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsThe United Nations on Friday warned of a “dramatic escalation of tensions” among warring parties near El Fasher, North Darfur. The area is already on the brink of famine, according to the UN, and an attack on the city could have devastating consequences for civilians. The crisis in El Fasher come...
City Lights Chief Book Buyer Paul Yamazaki on a Half Century Spent “Reading the Room”
KQED's Forum - April 29, 2024 19:23 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 595 ratingsWhen you walk into the historic, beloved City Lights in San Francisco’s North Beach, it’s easy to get lost in the winding shelves packed with thousands of titles from classic literature, poetry and philosophy to contemporary fiction. There’s a legendary man behind the careful curation. Chief book...
Searching for Another England, with Caroline Lucas and Grace Blakeley, Part Two
Intelligence Squared - April 27, 2024 23:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 690 ratingsEnglishness has been hijacked by the right. The flag of St. George’s Cross is proudly waved at far-right rallies. Conservative politicians insult the Left as being anti-English. And our history has been weaponised by cheerleaders for Brexit, exceptionalism and imperial nostalgia. That's the argum...
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