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S1 E6: What Men Talk About When They Talk About Sports (Contested, Part 6 of 6)

  • November 18, 2015
  • Tagged as: Contested, Season 1

Tens of millions of Americans, most of them men, tune in to sports talk radio. Is sports talk a haven for old-school guy talk, including misogyny and gay-bashing? For the final episode in our series…

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S1 E5: A Level Playing Field? (Contested, Part 5 of 6)

  • November 4, 2015
  • Tagged as: Contested, Season 1

Two families, both making big investments of time and money to involve their kids in sports. But the investments they’re able to make are very different. In Part 5 of “Contested,” our series on sports,…

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S1 E4: An Athlete Inside and Out (Contested, Part 4 of 6)

  • October 21, 2015
  • Tagged as: Contested, Season 1

  Tal Ben-Artzi didn’t worry about being an out bisexual athlete at Penn State. Maybe she would have if she’d known the school’s history. How much have times changed? In Part 4 of “Contested,” our series…

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S1 E3: The (High School) Mascot Wars (Contested, Part 3 of 6)

  • October 7, 2015
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  Two small towns, one in Idaho, the other in Upstate New York, try to decide whether to change the nickname of their high school sports teams: The Redskins. Photo: Emblem in the main foyer at…

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S1 E2: Friends and Basketball (Contested, Part 2 of 6)

  • September 23, 2015
  • Tagged as: Contested, Season 1

More from suburban St. Louis, post-Ferguson, on the popular notion that sports unites communities. Can the camaraderie of a team sport make race and class status “disappear” for the kids involved or their parents? Scene…

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S1 E1: Sports, the Great Uniter? (Contested, Part 1 of 6)

  • August 26, 2015
  • Tagged as: Contested, Season 1

    Can a winning baseball team bring St. Louis together post-Ferguson? John Biewen investigates in the inaugural episode of Scene On Radio, a new podcast of audio stories from the Center for Documentary Studies…

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29 Aug

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Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico's "neoliberal period" is over, announcing a slew of new public works.

Continuing AMLO's Fourth Transformation, Mexico is building passenger rail, highways, airports, 200K+ affordable homes, and more.

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27 Aug

A solar take-off is on its way to being a pan-African story 🌍☀️

In the past 12 months, 20 countries across the continent have imported a record number of solar panels from China 📈 What’s more? Algeria recorded a huge 33-FOLD increase in its imports 🇩🇿

https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-first-evidence-of-a-take-off-in-solar-in-africa

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26 Aug

Trump is more or less right that many people seem to want a dictator. They're his people.

As many as 3 or 4 in 10 Republicans endorse what is effectively unchecked power for Trump.

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22 Aug

BREAKING: A famine has officially been confirmed in Gaza City and the surrounding neighbourhoods

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19 Aug

Nobody will see this because X but this is kinda cool. Thanks to our peers who voted us onto this list! 🙏

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