Episodes

  • Author Describes Battles Against CAFOs and Big Ag in Rural Minnesota
    Feb 14 2025
    Sonja Trom Eayrs discusses her book Dodge County, Incorporated: Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America, a story of her family farm's fight against factory farms that changed agriculture and small townsthroughout the US.
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    29 mins
  • A Look at a Little-Known Spy Who Played a Major Role in the Cold War Era
    Feb 7 2025
    Who was James Jesus Angleton? Why is he important to understanding America in the Cold War era?
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    29 mins
  • Midwestern Roots A Key to Johnny Carson's Success
    Jan 31 2025
    Mike Thomas, co-author with the late Bill Zehme of a new biography of Johnny Carson called Carson the Magnificent.
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    29 mins
  • Gripping Account of the David v Goliath Legal Battle to Help Family Farmers in the 80s
    Jan 23 2025
    Sarah Vogel discusses her recent book The Farmer's Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm.
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    29 mins
  • Bottom-up, Flexible Approach Needed for Revitalizing Left Behind Areas
    Jan 17 2025
    Paul Collier, renowned development economist and author of Left Behind:A New Economics for Neglected Places
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    29 mins
  • How Democrats Lost the Working Class
    Jan 10 2025
    Jonathan Weisman, an economics and labor policy reporter for the NewYork Times, discusses a recent article he wrote on how the slippage ofworking class support for Democrats predated Trump
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    29 mins
  • America's Agricultural Crisis as Told Through the History of One Midwestern Farm
    Jan 4 2025
    Brian Reisinger talks about his book, Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family's Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer.
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    29 mins
  • Ruth Harkin's New Book Opens Window to Husband's Political Life But Also Her Remarkable Career
    Dec 28 2024
    Ruth Harkin discusses her new book, When My Husband Ran for President and Other Short Stories
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    29 mins