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Talk of the Nation (TOTN) was an American talk radio program based in Washington D.C., produced by National Public Radio (NPR) and was broadcast nationally from 2 to 4 p.m. Eastern Time. [1]

199 relations: Alan Lightman, Alephonsion Deng, Alison Stewart, All Things Considered, Amy Dickinson, Amy Richards, Andrea Stone, Andrew Lih, Andrew Moravcsik, Angel at the Fence, Antonia Juhasz, Arun Rath, Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world, Barron H. Lerner, Baseball bat, Bill Lumbergh, Bill Shine (television executive), Bob Boilen, Book discussion club, Brett Kimberlin, Bromst, Bush League TV, Cafe Au Go Go, Celeste Headlee, Christopher Noxon, Climate change and ecosystems, Cosmology in medieval Islam, Daniel Kevles, Daniel Smith (writer), Daniel Terdiman, David Boaz, David Folkenflik, Day to Day, Dean King, Donald Berwick, Donald Bogle, Doug Fabrizio, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Eboo Patel, Edward Wyckoff Williams, Einstein's Dreams, Elijah Wald, Elliot Ackerman, Eric Metaxas, Ethan Watters, Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, Fiorella Terenzi, Frank Stasio, Gabriel Arana, Gasland, ..., Gaye Adegbalola, Gene Healy, Gold Star Chili, Gregory Stock, Harlem Children's Zone, Harry Braun, Help at Any Cost, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Here and Now (Boston), Howard Engel, Howard Markel, Indigo Girls, Ira Glass, J. Jonah Jameson, James Foley (journalist), Janna Levin, Jay Bahadur, Jayson Blair, Jennifer Baumgardner, Jennifer Pharr Davis, John Brabender, John Hockenberry, Juan Williams, Karl Marlantes, Karl W. Giberson, Ken Jennings, Ken Rudin, Kenneth K. Tanaka, Kilt, Kinney Zalesne, KLCC (FM), KPCC, Krystian Bala, KUHF, KVCR (FM), Laura Lorson, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Lenny Bruce, Lesbian kiss episode, Lewis Black, List of candidates in the United States presidential election, 2004, List of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes, List of most-listened-to radio programs, List of NPR personnel, List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes (1998), List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes (1999), List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes (2000), Liz Garbus, Lynn Neary, Mac McClelland, Marc Leepson, Marcy Wheeler, Marilyn Sokol, Mary Lefkowitz, Matt Bai, Matthew Shepard, Medicare (United States), Meredith Ochs, Merry Christmas from the Family, Mia Schaikewitz, Michael Hudson (reporter), Mignon Fogarty, Mike Pesca, Military history of Jewish Americans, Minnesota Public Radio, Misogyny in rap music, Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol, Mitch Miller, Montreux (band), Nancy Friday, Neal Conan, Nick Matzke, Nomad: From Islam to America, NPR, Octavia E. Butler, Operation Sandblast, Paul Levinson, Paula Poundstone, Peter Ward (paleontologist), Philip Nel, Pinback, Piper Kerman, Political positions of Pat Buchanan, Push Girls, Ralph Keyes (author), Rashid Khalidi, Ray Suarez, Rebecca Roberts, Rejuvenile (book), Renée Richards, Robert Jay Lifton, Robert Siegel, Rockridge Institute, Ross Gelbspan, Rough Cuts (radio series), Science Friday, Scott Ritcher, Scott Wallace (photojournalist), Selig S. Harrison, Shawn Lawrence Otto, Six-Word Memoirs, Smith Brandon International, Snowclone, Social effects of Hurricane Katrina, Social intelligence, Songs of the Century, Speechbot, Stan Lee, Susan King (journalist), Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Talk radio, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, The Higher Power of Lucky, The Metal West, The Mind's Eye (book), The Pot Book, The Republican War on Science, The Suicide's Soliloquy, The World Without Us, Thermonuclear weapon, Tiny Mix Tapes, To Catch a Predator, Toilet paper orientation, Trevor Corson, Unscientific America, UPA (animation studio), USS Triton (SSRN-586), Victor Hugo Green, W. Ralph Eubanks, WABE, Walking Distance (album), Watson (computer), WBFO, WDCZ, WDET-FM, WEMC, WFAE, WGBH (FM), WGGL-FM, Wikipedia Seigenthaler biography incident, William Buzenberg, WPLN (AM), WUNC (FM), WVPE, Zola (musician), 2006 in comics, 2013 in North-American radio. Expand index (149 more) »

Alan Lightman

Alan Paige Lightman is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur.

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Alephonsion Deng

Alephonsion Deng (c. 1982 -) is a South Sudanese author and speaker.

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Alison Stewart

Alison Stewart (born July 4, 1966) is an American journalist and author.

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All Things Considered

All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR).

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Amy Dickinson

Amy Dickinson (born November 6, 1959) is an American newspaper columnist who writes the syndicated advice column Ask Amy.

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Amy Richards

Amelia "Amy" Richards is an American activist, organizer, writer, television producer, feminist, and art historian, currently residing in New York.

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Andrea Stone

Andrea Stone is director of career services of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

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Andrew Lih

Andrew Lih (born 1968) is an American new media researcher, consultant and writer, as well as an authority on both Wikipedia and internet censorship in the People's Republic of China.

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Andrew Moravcsik

Andrew Maitland Moravcsik (born 1957) is a Professor of Politics and director of the European Union Program at Princeton University.

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Angel at the Fence

Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love That Survived, written by Herman Rosenblat, was a fictitious Holocaust memoir purporting to tell the true story of the author's reunion with, and marriage to, a girl who had passed him food through the barbed-wire fence when he was imprisoned at the Schlieben subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in World War II.

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Antonia Juhasz

Antonia Juhasz (born 1970) is an American oil and energy analyst, author, journalist and activist.

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Arun Rath

Arun Rath is an American radio producer and broadcast journalist.

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Astronomy in the medieval Islamic world

Islamic astronomy comprises the astronomical developments made in the Islamic world, particularly during the Islamic Golden Age (9th–13th centuries), and mostly written in the Arabic language.

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Barron H. Lerner

Barron H. Lerner is a member of the faculty at the New York University Langone School of Medicine.

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Baseball bat

A baseball bat is a smooth wooden or metal club used in the sport of baseball to hit the ball after it is thrown by the pitcher.

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Bill Lumbergh

William "Bill" Lumbergh is a fictional character, who appeared initially in the Milton animated shorts, and later was portrayed by Gary Cole in the 1999 film Office Space.

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Bill Shine (television executive)

Bill Shine (born July 1963) is an American television executive and the former co-president of Fox News, a position he was promoted to in August 2016 and removed from on May 1, 2017.

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Bob Boilen

Bob Boilen is an American musician and media personality.

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Book discussion club

A book club is a group of people who meet to discuss a book or books that they have read and express their opinions, likes, dislikes, etc.

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Brett Kimberlin

Brett Kimberlin (born 1954) is an activist who was convicted in 1980 on drug charges and of perpetrating the 1978 Speedway bombings.

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Bromst

Bromst is the fifth studio album by the American electronic musician Dan Deacon.

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Bush League TV

Bush League is a website and Internet video show for young men.

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Cafe Au Go Go

The Cafe Au Go Go was a Greenwich Village night club located in the basement of the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre building in the late 1960s, and located at 152 Bleecker Street in Manhattan, New York City.

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Celeste Headlee

Celeste Headlee (born December 30, 1969) is the host of the Georgia Public Broadcasting program "On Second Thought." She has previously been the co-host of the national morning news show The Takeaway, from Public Radio International and WNYC.

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Christopher Noxon

Christopher Lane Noxon (born November 21, 1968) is an American writer and freelance journalist.

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Climate change and ecosystems

This article is about climate change and ecosystems.

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Cosmology in medieval Islam

Islamic cosmology is the cosmology of Islamic societies.

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Daniel Kevles

Daniel J. Kevles (born 2 March 1939 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American historian of science.

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Daniel Smith (writer)

Daniel Smith (born October 7, 1977) is an American journalist and author of the 2012 memoir Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety.

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Daniel Terdiman

Daniel Terdiman is a journalist, who has been published in both print and non-print media, including Time Magazine, The New York Times, Wired Magazine, CNET News.com, Wired News, Martha Stewart Weddings, Salon.com, Business 2.0, Venture Beat and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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David Boaz

David Boaz (born August 29, 1953, Mayfield, Kentucky) is the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, an American libertarian think tank.

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David Folkenflik

David Folkenflik is an American reporter based in New York City and serving as media correspondent for National Public Radio.

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Day to Day

Day to Day (D2D) was a one-hour weekday American radio newsmagazine distributed by National Public Radio (NPR), and produced by NPR in collaboration with Slate.

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Dean King

Dean King (born 1962) is an American author of narrative non-fiction on adventure, historical and maritime subjects.

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Donald Berwick

Donald M. Berwick (born September 9, 1946) is a former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Donald Bogle

Donald Bogle is an American film historian and author of six books concerning African Americans in film and on television.

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Doug Fabrizio

Doug Fabrizio (born July 18, 1964) is an American radio host and commentator.

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Earl Ofari Hutchinson (born October 8, 1945), The HistoryMakers.

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Eboo Patel

Eboo Patel was a member of President Barack Obama's inaugural Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.

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Edward Wyckoff Williams

Edward Wyckoff Williams (born 6 February 1978) is an American television producer, correspondent, columnist, political analyst and former investment banker; who has appeared on Al Jazeera, MSNBC, ABC, CNN, CBS, BBC and national syndicated radio.

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Einstein's Dreams

Einstein's Dreams is a 1992 novel by Alan Lightman that was an international bestseller and has been translated into thirty languages.

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Elijah Wald

Elijah Wald (born 1959) is an American folk blues guitarist and music historian.

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Elliot Ackerman

Elliot Ackerman (born April 12, 1980) is an American author.

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Eric Metaxas

Eric Metaxas (born 1963) is an American author, speaker, and radio host.

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Ethan Watters

Ethan Watters is an American journalist.

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Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day (or Draw Mohammed Day) was a 2010 event in support of artists threatened with violence for drawing representations of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Fiorella Terenzi

Fiorella Terenzi is an Italian-born astrophysicist, author and recording artist who is best known for taking recordings of radio waves from far-away galaxies and turning them into music.

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Frank Stasio

Frank Stasio is an American talk radio host.

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Gabriel Arana

Gabriel Arana (born April 10, 1983) is an American journalist.

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Gasland

Gasland is a 2010 American documentary written and directed by Josh Fox.

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Gaye Adegbalola

Gaye Adegbalola (born Gaye Todd, March 21, 1944, Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States), All Media Guide (2007); retrieved August 2, 2008.

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Gene Healy

Gene Healy (born November 16, 1970) is an American political pundit, journalist and editor.

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Gold Star Chili

Gold Star Chili is a restaurant chain based in Cincinnati, Ohio, that sells Cincinnati chili.

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Gregory Stock

Gregory Stock is a biophysicist, best-selling author, biotech entrepreneur, and the former director of the Program on Medicine, Technology and Society at UCLA’s School of Medicine.

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Harlem Children's Zone

The Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ) is a non-profit organization for poverty-stricken children and families living in Harlem, providing free support in the form of parenting workshops, a pre-school program, three charter schools, and child-oriented health programs for thousands of children and families.

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Harry Braun

Harry William Braun III (born November 6, 1948) is an American renewable energy consultant, researcher, and political candidate.

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Help at Any Cost

Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids is a non-fiction book by Maia Szalavitz analyzing the controversy surrounding the tough love behavior modification industry.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

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Here and Now (Boston)

Here and Now is a public radio magazine program produced by NPR and WBUR in Boston and distributed across the United States by NPR to over 450 stations, with an estimated 4.5 million weekly listeners.

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Howard Engel

Howard Engel CM (born April 2, 1931) is a Canadian mystery writer and CBC producer who resides in Toronto, Ontario.

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Howard Markel

Howard Markel (born April 23, 1960) is an American physician, author, editor, professor, and medical historian.

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Indigo Girls

Indigo Girls are a Grammy Award–winning folk rock music American duo consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers.

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Ira Glass

Ira Jeffrey Glass (born March 3, 1959) is an American public radio personality and the host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life.

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J. Jonah Jameson

John Jonah Jameson, Jr. is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Spider-Man.

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James Foley (journalist)

James Wright Foley (October 18, 1973 – August 19, 2014) was an American journalist and video reporter.

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Janna Levin

Janna J. Levin (born 1967) is an American theoretical cosmologist and an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College.

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Jay Bahadur

Jay Bahadur (born 1984) is a Canadian journalist and author.

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Jayson Blair

Jayson Thomas Blair (born March 23, 1976) is a former American journalist associated with The New York Times.

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Jennifer Baumgardner

Jennifer Baumgardner (born 1970) is a writer, activist, filmmaker, and lecturer whose work explores abortion, sex, bisexuality, rape, single parenthood, and women's power.

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Jennifer Pharr Davis

Jennifer Pharr Davis is an American long distance hiker, author, speaker, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, and Ambassador for the American Hiking Society.

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John Brabender

John Brabender is a prominent Republican political consultant.

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John Hockenberry

John Charles Hockenberry (born June 4, 1956) is an American journalist and author.

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Juan Williams

Juan Antonio Williams (born April 10, 1954) is a Panamanian-born American journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel.

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Karl Marlantes

Karl Marlantes (born December 24, 1944) is an American author, businessman, and decorated U.S. Marine Corps veteran.

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Karl W. Giberson

Karl Willard Giberson (born May 13, 1957) is a physicist, scholar, and author specializing in the creation-evolution debate (see Creation-evolution controversy).

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Ken Jennings

Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) is an American game show contestant and author.

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Ken Rudin

Ken Rudin is an American radio journalist.

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Kenneth K. Tanaka

Kenneth Ken'ichi Tanaka (born 1947), also known as Kenshin Tanaka or Ken'ichi Tanaka is a scholar, author, translator and ordained Jōdo Shinshū priest.

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Kilt

A kilt (fèileadh) is a knee-length non-bifurcated skirt-type garment, with pleats at the back, originating in the traditional dress of Gaelic men and boys in the Scottish Highlands.

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Kinney Zalesne

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KLCC (FM)

KLCC 89.7 FM is the main National Public Radio member station in Eugene, Oregon, and the southern Willamette Valley.

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KPCC

KPCC (89.3 MHz FM) is a public radio station based in Pasadena, California.

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Krystian Bala

Krystian Bala (born 1973) is a Polish writer, photographer, and a convicted murderer.

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KUHF

KUHF (branded as News 88.7) is a public radio station serving Greater Houston metropolitan area.

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KVCR (FM)

KVCR (91.9 MHz) is an FM non-commercial public radio station in located San Bernardino, California, broadcasting to the Riverside-San Bernardino-Inland Empire area.

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Laura Lorson

Laura Lorson is public radio producer and host residing in Perry, Kansas.

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Law & Order

Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the ''Law & Order'' franchise.

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often abbreviated to Law & Order: SVU or just SVU) is an American police procedural, legal, crime drama television series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced.

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Lenny Bruce

Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist.

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Lesbian kiss episode

The "lesbian kiss episode" is a subgenre of the media portrayal of lesbianism in American television media, created in the 1990s.

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Lewis Black

Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is an American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor.

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List of candidates in the United States presidential election, 2004

The following are lists of candidates in the 2004 U.S. presidential election.

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List of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the first spinoff of Law & Order, is an American police procedural television series that focuses on crimes of sexual nature.

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List of most-listened-to radio programs

In the United States, radio listenership is gauged by Nielsen and others for both commercial radio and public radio.

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List of NPR personnel

The following is a list of National Public Radio personnel.

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List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes (1998)

This is a list of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! guests for 1998.

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List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes (1999)

This is a list of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! guests for 1999.

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List of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! episodes (2000)

This is a list of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! guests for 2000.

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Liz Garbus

Elizabeth "Liz" Freya Garbus (born) is an American documentary film director and producer.

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Lynn Neary

Lynn Neary is an American radio journalist.

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Mac McClelland

Nicole "Mac" McClelland is an American author and journalist.

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Marc Leepson

Marc Leepson (born June 20, 1945 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American journalist, historian, and author.

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Marcy Wheeler

Marcy Wheeler (a.k.a. "emptywheel") is an American independent journalist specializing in national security and civil liberties.

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Marilyn Sokol

Marilyn Roberta Sokol is an American actress, comedian, teacher, singer and writer/director.

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Mary Lefkowitz

Mary R. Lefkowitz (born April 30, 1935) is an American classical scholar and Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College.

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Matt Bai

Matt Bai is an American journalist, author and screenwriter.

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Matthew Shepard

Matthew Wayne "Matt" Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American student at the University of Wyoming who was beaten, tortured, and left to die near Laramie on the night of October 6, 1998.

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Medicare (United States)

In the United States, Medicare is a national health insurance program, now administered by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services of the U.S. federal government but begun in 1966 under the Social Security Administration.

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Meredith Ochs

Meredith Ochs is an American radio commentator, DJ, author, journalist and musician.

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Merry Christmas from the Family

'"Merry Christmas from the Family" is a holiday song written by alternative country artist Robert Earl Keen.

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Mia Schaikewitz

Mia Schaikewitz is a Jewish-American TV personality and spokesperson for disability advocacy.

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Michael Hudson (reporter)

Michael Hudson (born 1961) is a Pulitzer-Prize winning American investigative journalist.

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Mignon Fogarty

Mignon Fogarty (born 1967) is a professor of journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a former science writer who produces an educational podcast titled Grammar Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing, which promotes the proper use of the English language and was named one of the best podcasts of 2007 by iTunes.

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Mike Pesca

Mike Pesca (born December 29, 1971) is an American radio journalist and podcaster based in New York City.

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Military history of Jewish Americans

Jewish Americans have served in the United States armed forces dating back to before the colonial era, when Jews had served in militias of the Thirteen Colonies.

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Minnesota Public Radio

Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), is a public radio network for the state of Minnesota.

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Misogyny in rap music

Misogyny in rap music refers to lyrics, videos or other aspects of rap music that support, glorify, justify, or normalize the objectification, exploitation, or victimization of women.

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Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's famous short story A Christmas Carol starring the cartoon character Mr. Magoo.

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Mitch Miller

Mitchell William "Mitch" Miller (July 4, 1911 – July 31, 2010) was an American oboist, conductor, recording producer and recording industry executive.

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Montreux (band)

Montreux was the name of an American fusion band, specializing in the blend of jazz and bluegrass, with jam elements.

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Nancy Friday

Nancy Colbert Friday (August 27, 1933 – November 5, 2017) was an American author who wrote on the topics of female sexuality and liberation.

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Neal Conan

Neal Conan (born November 1949) is an American radio journalist, producer, editor, and correspondent.

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Nick Matzke

Nicholas J. Matzke is the former Public Information Project Director at the National Center for Science Education (NCSE) and served an instrumental role in NCSE's preparation for the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial.

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Nomad: From Islam to America

Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (first published May 18, 2010) is a memoir by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a sequel to her ''New York Times'' bestseller Infidel.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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Octavia E. Butler

Octavia Estelle Butler (June 22, 1947February 24, 2006) was an African American science fiction writer.

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Operation Sandblast

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Robert Siegel

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The Mind's Eye (book)

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USS Triton (SSRN-586)

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WBFO

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WDCZ

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WDET-FM

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WEMC

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WFAE

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WGBH (FM)

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WUNC (FM)

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WVPE

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Zola (musician)

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2006 in comics

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2013 in North-American radio

The following is a list of events affecting radio broadcasting in 2013.

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