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On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews the Portland Art Museum’s chief conservator, Charlotte Ameringer. Charlotte talks about her work restoring Claude Monet’s famous 1914 painting “Waterlilies” which he painted at his home in Giverny in Fran... Read more

The gutting of regulatory agencies. The abandonment of proven public health measures. The withdrawal of foreign aid to vulnerable regions of the world. The elimination of federal oversight of all kinds. Taken as a whole, the actions of the second Donald Trump presidency ... Read more

On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Systemic Racism in the Criminal Legal System. Recently at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, the Fourth Annual Session of the International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement... Read more

Join us as we speak with 2 educators about teaching about Palestine. Email Oregon Educators for Palestine to connect with other educators at oep@disroot.org. Read more

Fortunato hosts another afternoon of music for a lovely spring afternoon and a little comedy from Bob & Ray.. Musical Artists.include Joni Mitchell, Eva Cassidy, Paul Desmond, Rosanne Cash, Quincy Jones, Daiane Reeves, Duke Ellington, Ruth Brown, The Mills Brothers, Jim ... Read more

While many of us are worrying about how the melting polar ice caps are a warning of climate catastrophes ahead, for others melting ice is turning historical dreams of a navigable Arctic into reality and reshaping rivalries at the top of the world.  On this episode of Lo... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Copaganda: News media, public officials, and the police themselves keep telling us that public safety requires ever more policing, despite all evidence to the contrary. In Co... Read more

According to the 2025 Annual Report of the American Lung Association, fifty-five years after the passage of the landmark Clean Air Act, nearly half of US residents breathe unhealthy air. One significant contribution to this problem is the inadequacy of the regulatory app... Read more

  News media, public officials, and the police themselves keep telling us that public safety requires ever more policing, despite all evidence to the contrary. In Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News (New Press, 2025), civil rights lawyer Alec Karakat... Read more

Join host Jonathan Lay for another fresh-brewed batch of folk music. In this episode, we’ll range from wishes and mysteries, to oceans, boats, bridges, mules and gardens. Artists in this episode include: Mark Graham & Orville Johnson; Kat Eggleston; Tony Furtado; Brian... Read more