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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:30 — 40.5MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday we present two chapters from Maggie Nye’s new novel The Curators. The setting is 1915 Atlanta. A group of fictional teenage Jewish girls living in Atlanta, whose voices we hear in collective conversation, become obsessed with the real case of Leo Frank a local Jewish businessman …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 84.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreFor this episode of Partisan Gardens, we learn about the conditions facing migrant farm workers in California. We share a two conversations: one between Partisan Gardens and Nikola Garcia, author of a recent article in Inhabit: Territories called “The Farmworker Caravan: Mutual Aid in California’s Migrant Worker …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:58 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreToday much of the history of American radicalism, including the work of cartoonist Art Young, languishes in obscurity just when it is needed most. But be cheered, along with Michael Mark Cohen’s website, Cartooning Capitalism: Art Young and the Cartoons of American Radicalism, there are now two …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 27:00 — 61.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreA staff photographer at The Herald-Times is dismissed, as newspapers are sold to GateHouse Media; Indiana legislators support a ‘tax amnesty’ program; Supporters of redistricting reform push legislators to act; Sen. (R-Lawrenceberg) Chip Perfect withdraws bill eliminating child labor laws, after conflict of interest scandal; EPA re-schedules …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 28:55 — 66.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreSchools across Indiana and much of the Midwest are cancelling classes, as temperatures drop into dangerous territory; An Indiana lawmaker’s efforts to eliminate the state’s child labor laws have raised conflict of interest concerns; The Herald-Times of Bloomington is among 8 Indiana newspapers sold to Gatehouse Media; A hike in …