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All Work and No Pay

All Work and No Pay

Season 3 Episode 13
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Fighting for the Four Freedoms

Fighting for the Four Freedoms

Season 3 Episode 14
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What the 1% Don't Want You to Know

What the 1% Don't Want You to Know

Season 3 Episode 15
24:50
Putting the Freeze on Global Warming

Putting the Freeze on Global Warming

Season 3 Episode 16
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Is Net Neutrality Dead?

Is Net Neutrality Dead?

Season 3 Episode 17
24:50
Time to Get Real on Climate Change

Time to Get Real on Climate Change

Season 3 Episode 18
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The War on Climate Scientists

The War on Climate Scientists

Season 3 Episode 19
24:43
Too Big to Fail and Getting Bigger

Too Big to Fail and Getting Bigger

Season 3 Episode 23
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Chaos in Iraq

Chaos in Iraq

Season 3 Episode 24
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Public Schools for Sale?

Season 3 Episode 12

Public education is becoming big business as bankers, hedge-fund managers and private-equity investors are entering what they consider to be an “emerging market.” Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education, says the privatization of public education has to stop. She was an advocate school choice and charter schools, but after careful investigation, has changed her mind.

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In an encore broadcast, journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates talks about our legacy of slavery.
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A small California city took on one of America's biggest corporations and won.
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Two experts on American elections on the plot to keep citizens away from the ballot box.
Keeping Faith in Democracy
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Marilynne Robinson on her new book "Lila" and the state of democracy in America.
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