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Us & Them — 282 episodes

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Us & Them: Stay or Go — Part 1: The Stayers

2

Us & Them Encore: Disconnected Youth

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Us & Them: What We Hide — Examining The Collateral Damage Of Addiction

4

Us & Them: Who Can Call Morgantown Home?

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Us & Them Encore: The Dental Gap

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Us & Them Encore: Black West Virginians With Substance Use Disorder Face Unique Challenges

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Us & Them Encore: Daniel Johnston — The Troubled Life And Artistic Genius Of West Virginia Music Hall Of Fame Inductee

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Us & Them Encore: Our Foster Care Crisis

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Us & Them Encore: Heroin — N'ganga Dimitri

10

Us & Them: The Good, The Bad, And The American Revolution

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Us & Them Encore: Housing Options Are Few & Far Between In Appalachia

12

Us & Them Encore: Substance Use Disorder — Can You Recover Without A Place To Call Home?

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Us & Them Encore: Diminishing OB Care In Rural America

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Us & Them Encore: The Stigma of Sobriety

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Us & Them Encore: A Band On The Right Side Of History

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Us & Them Encore: Re-Entry

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Us & Them Encore: Amazing Grace

18

Us & Them: America’s Civil Rights Champion

19

Us & Them: 2025 — Changing Definitions, Upending Institutions

20

Us & Them Encore: Who’s Going To Take Care Of Maw Maw?

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Us & Them: The Mythology Of Crime Stats

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Us & Them Encore: The Housing Struggle

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Us & Them Encore: The Fight For The Youth Vote

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Us & Them: A Fresh Look At America’s Origin Story

25

Us & Them: Rebuilding Justice In A Divided America

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Us & Them: Caregiving In West Virginia

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Us & Them: West Virginia’s News Deserts — With No Government Watchdog Civic Engagement Plummets

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Us & Them: Three Strikes 2.0 — But Is Kentucky Any Safer?

29

Us & Them Encore: Another Small Town Paper Down

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Us & Them: Transgender In The Mountain State

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Us & Them Encore: The Geography of Abortion

32

Us & Them: 100 Days And A Lot To Discuss At Our Dinner Party

33

Us & Them: Carpe Sonum — Celebrating 10 Years of Us & Them with the Dead Podcasters Society

34

Us & Them: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion — Its History And The Efforts To Erase It

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Us & Them: Daniel Johnston — The Troubled Life And Artistic Genius Of West Virginia Music Hall Of Fame Inductee

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Us & Them: Substance Use Disorder — Can You Recover Without A Place To Call Home?

37

Us & Them: We The People [But Not So Much] Women

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Us & Them: Black West Virginians With Substance Use Disorder Face unique Challenges

39

Us & Them: Housing Options Are Few & Far Between In Appalachia

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Us & Them: What’s Next For Abortion?

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Us & Them: They’ve Been Here Before

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Us & Them: Listening So Hard That It Hurts

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Us & Them: No Rest For The Homeless

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Us & Them: Post-Election Politics Can Be A Bit Tough To Swallow

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Us & Them: Childhood Vaccines — Parental Rights vs. Public Health in West Virginia

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Us & Them: Bridging Divides After A Brutal Election

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Us & Them: Next Generation Voters

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Us & Them: Is The Playing Field Fair?

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Us & Them: Pre-Election Politics & Food For Thought

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Us & Them: Three People - Three Stories - One Community

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Us & Them: In The Beginning, There Was Very Little Mention Of The Right To Vote

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Us & Them: Can Former Prisoners Help Fill Our Workforce Gaps?

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Us & Them Encore: Re-Entry

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Us & Them Encore: Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars In West Virginia

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Us & Them Remembrance — 50 Years Ago Today: Reflecting on a Pivotal Kanawha County Board of Education Meeting

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Revisiting The Great Textbook War

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Us & Them Encore: SNAP — Do The Hungry Get More Policy Than Nutrition?

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Us & Them Encore: Can Childhood Trauma Limit The Future?

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Us & Them Encore: Compassion Fatigue

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Us & Them: Our Foster Care Crisis

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Us & Them: Locked Out Of Voting?

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Us & Them: Another Small Town Paper Down

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Us & Them Encore: Dicamba Woes

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Us & Them: Navigating Post-Pandemic Medicaid

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Us & Them: The Geography of Abortion

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Us & Them: Expungement — Between Hope and Danger

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Us & Them: Caught Between Two Worlds

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Us & Them: 2023 Had Some Serious Trust Issues

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Us & Them: Bidding Farewell To My Unlikely Friend, Alice Moore

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Us & Them: Diminished Trust In Science

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Us & Them: Potluck & Politics

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Us & Them: Diminished Trust In The News Media

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To Friend or Unfriend? That Is The Question

74

Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars In West Virginia

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Trust: East Palestinians Not On The Same Track

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Us & Them Encore: The Right To Compete

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Us & Them Encore: Leaving The White Bubble

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Us & Them Encore: Court of Second Chances?

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Us & Them: SNAP — Do The Hungry Get More Policy Than Nutrician?

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Us & Them: Who Gets Stuck Behind Bars In West Virginia?

81

Us & Them: Larry Bellorín’s Unwritten Song

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Us & Them: The ‘Toxic Stew’ Of School Discipline

83

A Fiddler Contemplates The Fate of the Mountain State

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Us & Them Encore: The Gun Divide

85

Diminishing OB Care In Rural America

86

Changing A State's Mind About Health

87

Compassion Fatigue

88

Us & Them: Re-Entry

89

The Fight For The Youth Vote

90

The Housing Struggle

91

Finding Your Family

92

2023: Where Do We Go From Here?

93

Court of Second Chances?

94

Reimagining A Region

95

Us & Them: Post-Roe Mountain State

96

Please Pass The Politics

97

Manchin Is Us & Them

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Manchin In The Middle

99

Do We Have A Hearing Problem?

100

Us & Them Encore: Blair Mountain

101

Us & Them Encore: The Dental Gap

102

The Right To Compete

103

Us & Them Encore: Kingwood March Exposed a Raw Seam of Rage

104

Vaccines: Now For Us, Later for Them

105

Doctors Hit Socials To Cure Disinformation

106

The Gun Divide

107

Dicamba: Things Have Gotten A Bit Ugly

108

Us & Them: Who Can We Trust?

109

Us & Them: Books Under Fire

110

Us & Them: Critical Race Theory

111

Historically Black Currently Adapting

112

Moving the Needle

113

Remembering The Augusta Riot

114

Can Childhood Trauma Limit The Future?

115

Vaccine Inequities Have Consequences

116

Vax Scapegoat?

117

Leaving The White Bubble

118

A Platefull of Politics

119

Last Man Honored

120

West Virginia's Charter School Era Begins

121

Fighting to Learn

122

Juvie: Why are so many young West Virginians incarcerated and at what cost?

123

Blair Mountain

124

Grandfamilies of the Opioid Crisis

125

Hillers & Creekers

126

The Stigma of Sobriety

127

A Band On The Right Side Of History

128

Who's Gonna Take Care Of Maw Maw?

129

The Dental Gap

130

Disconnected Youth: No Job, No School, No Plan

131

Stay or Go?

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When Will We Trust Again?

133

Pocahontas County Contradiction — Sure, They Can Hear Mars, But Dependable Broadband Seems Like A Galaxy Away

134

We've Lost & We've Learned In The Year of COVID-19

135

Fatal Overdoses: Pandemic is Especially Deadly for West Virginians Battling Addictions

136

COVID-19 Exposes Racial Inequities

137

Grandfamilies and the Pandemic

138

Clarity on COVID-19

139

Us & Them: Shelter From The Virus

140

Kingwood March Exposed a Raw Seam of Rage

141

Sink or Swim

142

Forced Apart: Faith Tested

143

Dessert & Dialogue

144

Forced Apart: Cornucopia of Change

145

Forced Apart: Can Our Economy Rebound Without Reliable, Safe Child Care?

146

Us & Them: Let Us 'Bind Up The Nation's Wounds'

147

Breaking Bread, Talking Politics

148

Us & Them: Working Man vs. The Political Machine

149

Forced Apart: An Ailing Economy -- Is Workforce Training The Cure?

150

Can a White Supremacist Alter Her DNA of Hate?

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Forced Apart: The 'Delicate and Crazy Dance' of American Health Care

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The Vaccination Divide

153

Recovery and Resiliency in Kermit

154

Forced Apart: Quarantine and the Danger of Eating Disorders

155

Us & Them: Abortion Divides

156

Forced Apart: Shadow Pandemic

157

The Black Talk

158

COVID-19 Takes A Toll On Our Food Supply

159

Coronavirus Czar Says Pandemic is a Stress Test for WV Health Care

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Forced Apart: Same Pandemic, Unequal Education

161

The Legacy of the Upper Big Branch Disaster

162

Nurse Eva Travels to a COVID-19 Front Line

163

Forced Apart: A Virus Creates New Divides

164

The Connector

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Upriver Battle: Two Mayors Join Forces to Revive Their Rural Small Towns Against All Odds

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Without A Home Can You Be A Good Neighbor?

167

Grandfamilies of the Opioid Crisis

168

Diversity Divide

169

Should History Be Set In Stone?

170

Indian Country Relocation: A One-way Ticket to Poverty

171

Music with a Message

172

We The Purple

173

Us & Them: Abortion Divides

174

The Bond Buster Says ‘No’ to Public Schools

175

Three Tales of Coal

176

Losing It All: Natural Disasters and America’s Immigrant Worker

177

Us & Them Update: A Surprising Ending to Justice for James Means

178

Faith in Science

179

Update: Killer of James Means Changes His Mind…Again.

180

Update: Farm Wars

181

Update: Killer of James Means Seeks to Revoke Plea

182

What, Us Worry?: Life After MAD

183

Update: Justice for James Means

184

My Friend From Camp

185

Immigrant ‘Concentration Camps’ on the Southern Border?

186

Pride in the Mountain State

187

Reckoning with Sexual Assault: Righting a Wrong

188

Farm Wars

189

Still Waiting For Justice

190

Waiting for Justice

191

Opioid Recovery in Appalachia's Ground Zero

192

States Look to Appalachia for Vaccination Laws

193

Reconnecting With Femme Voice

194

Scarlet Letters and Second Chances

195

Black Talk

196

Cave Men, The Patriarchy & Fairytales

197

My Friend From Camp

198

War on Christmas…Really? 2018

199

Culture Clash: Back to the Border

200

EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.10 -- Origins of the Epidemic

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The Great Textbook War

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EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.9 -- Make applebutter, not war

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EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.8 -- The Media

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EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.7 -- Two Views

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Reading Wars

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EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.6 -- Deana & Linda

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EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.5 -- Immigration

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"Steve"

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EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.4 -- Coal: Hero or Villain?

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EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.3 -- Why is Joe Manchin a Democrat?

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Rural Voters: You Can't Ignore Us

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EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.2 -- The future of the Supreme Court

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EXTRA: Red State Blue State, Ep.1

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And Now... on the Radio!

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‘Us’ Music: a Conversation with Stephan Said

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Shack!

217

Hillers and Creekers

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The Church Lady

219

Gentrification (or that Kumbaya moment)

220

The Elephant in the Classroom

221

Housing in Paradise

222

Revisiting the Grand Palace

223

Love, the Ayatollah, and Revolution

224

Touching the Third Rail with Katharine Hayhoe

225

Heroin: N'ganga Dimitri

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Under the Microscope: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

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EXTRA CUTS: My Friend From Camp

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My Friend From Camp

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A Suburb of Hell

230

The Black Talk

231

The "Talk"

232

Trapped on the Turnpike

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Panhandlers: To Give Or Not to Give?

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A New Year, A Reprise, Amazing Grace

235

Feminism Is The Word

236

His Name's DJ

237

Killing James Means

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The Church Lady

239

Community and Cops Talking Across the Divide

240

A Policeman is a Person in Your Neighborhood, In Your Neighborhood, In Your Neigh-bor-hoo-ood!

241

Shack! - A Civil Rights Story

242

Two Tales of Coal

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Hillers & Creekers!

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Confederate Reckoning: When Will The Civil War End?

245

Remembering New Math & Common Core

246

Deanna, Tymel & Amarie

247

Amazing Grace

248

Sodomy, Stonewall & Pride

249

The Elephant in the (Class) Room: How I Survived Iraq and Vassar College

250

Gentrification: That Kumbayah Moment

251

What I Learned About Empathy from a Textbook

252

Reasserting Femme Voice

253

Love, the Ayatollah & Revolution

254

Coming Out of the Closet

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Serious as a Heart Attack

256

Taking an Ass Whoopin’

257

Hello Mary Lou...

258

The Changing Face of Heroin

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Heroin I - N'ganga Dimitri

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Femme Voice

261

Shack!

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Trapped on the Turnpike

263

The Refugee Trail with Scott Carrier

264

War on Christmas…Really?

265

Islamophobia

266

Atheism

267

Enemies

268

Locked Up For Sodomy

269

A Confederate Reckoning

270

Strangers With Cameras In Appalachia

271

New Math

272

Textbook Watchdogs

273

The Church Lady

274

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

275

In Dixieland, I'll Take My Stand

276

Sex Ed for Grown-ups

277

The Talk

278

To Give or Not to Give

279

Revisiting the Grand Palace

280

The Great Textbook War

281

Marrying Gays When It Wasn't Cool - Rev. Jim Lewis

282

Trey & Alice