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Us & Them — 279 episodes

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Us & Them: Who Can Call Morgantown Home?

2

Us & Them Encore: The Dental Gap

3

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

4

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

6

Us & Them Encore: Heroin — N'ganga Dimitri

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

8

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

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

10

Us & Them Encore: Diminishing OB Care In Rural America

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Us & Them Encore: The Stigma of Sobriety

12

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

13

Us & Them Encore: Re-Entry

14

Us & Them Encore: Amazing Grace

15

Us & Them: America’s Civil Rights Champion

16

Us & Them: 2025 — Changing Definitions, Upending Institutions

17

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

18

Us & Them: The Mythology Of Crime Stats

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Us & Them Encore: The Housing Struggle

20

Us & Them Encore: The Fight For The Youth Vote

21

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

22

Us & Them: Rebuilding Justice In A Divided America

23

Us & Them: Caregiving In West Virginia

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

25

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

26

Us & Them Encore: Another Small Town Paper Down

27

Us & Them: Transgender In The Mountain State

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Us & Them Encore: The Geography of Abortion

29

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

30

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

31

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?

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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

36

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

39

Us & Them: Listening So Hard That It Hurts

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Us & Them: No Rest For The Homeless

41

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

43

Us & Them: Bridging Divides After A Brutal Election

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Us & Them: Next Generation Voters

45

Us & Them: Is The Playing Field Fair?

46

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

68

Us & Them: Potluck & Politics

69

Us & Them: Diminished Trust In The News Media

70

To Friend or Unfriend? That Is The Question

71

Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars In West Virginia

72

Trust: East Palestinians Not On The Same Track

73

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?

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Us & Them: Larry Bellorín’s Unwritten Song

79

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

80

A Fiddler Contemplates The Fate of the Mountain State

81

Us & Them Encore: The Gun Divide

82

Diminishing OB Care In Rural America

83

Changing A State's Mind About Health

84

Compassion Fatigue

85

Us & Them: Re-Entry

86

The Fight For The Youth Vote

87

The Housing Struggle

88

Finding Your Family

89

2023: Where Do We Go From Here?

90

Court of Second Chances?

91

Reimagining A Region

92

Us & Them: Post-Roe Mountain State

93

Please Pass The Politics

94

Manchin Is Us & Them

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Manchin In The Middle

96

Do We Have A Hearing Problem?

97

Us & Them Encore: Blair Mountain

98

Us & Them Encore: The Dental Gap

99

The Right To Compete

100

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

101

Vaccines: Now For Us, Later for Them

102

Doctors Hit Socials To Cure Disinformation

103

The Gun Divide

104

Dicamba: Things Have Gotten A Bit Ugly

105

Us & Them: Who Can We Trust?

106

Us & Them: Books Under Fire

107

Us & Them: Critical Race Theory

108

Historically Black Currently Adapting

109

Moving the Needle

110

Remembering The Augusta Riot

111

Can Childhood Trauma Limit The Future?

112

Vaccine Inequities Have Consequences

113

Vax Scapegoat?

114

Leaving The White Bubble

115

A Platefull of Politics

116

Last Man Honored

117

West Virginia's Charter School Era Begins

118

Fighting to Learn

119

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

120

Blair Mountain

121

Grandfamilies of the Opioid Crisis

122

Hillers & Creekers

123

The Stigma of Sobriety

124

A Band On The Right Side Of History

125

Who's Gonna Take Care Of Maw Maw?

126

The Dental Gap

127

Disconnected Youth: No Job, No School, No Plan

128

Stay or Go?

129

When Will We Trust Again?

130

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

131

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

132

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

133

COVID-19 Exposes Racial Inequities

134

Grandfamilies and the Pandemic

135

Clarity on COVID-19

136

Us & Them: Shelter From The Virus

137

Kingwood March Exposed a Raw Seam of Rage

138

Sink or Swim

139

Forced Apart: Faith Tested

140

Dessert & Dialogue

141

Forced Apart: Cornucopia of Change

142

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

143

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

144

Breaking Bread, Talking Politics

145

Us & Them: Working Man vs. The Political Machine

146

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

147

Can a White Supremacist Alter Her DNA of Hate?

148

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

149

The Vaccination Divide

150

Recovery and Resiliency in Kermit

151

Forced Apart: Quarantine and the Danger of Eating Disorders

152

Us & Them: Abortion Divides

153

Forced Apart: Shadow Pandemic

154

The Black Talk

155

COVID-19 Takes A Toll On Our Food Supply

156

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

157

Forced Apart: Same Pandemic, Unequal Education

158

The Legacy of the Upper Big Branch Disaster

159

Nurse Eva Travels to a COVID-19 Front Line

160

Forced Apart: A Virus Creates New Divides

161

The Connector

162

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

163

Without A Home Can You Be A Good Neighbor?

164

Grandfamilies of the Opioid Crisis

165

Diversity Divide

166

Should History Be Set In Stone?

167

Indian Country Relocation: A One-way Ticket to Poverty

168

Music with a Message

169

We The Purple

170

Us & Them: Abortion Divides

171

The Bond Buster Says ‘No’ to Public Schools

172

Three Tales of Coal

173

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

174

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

175

Faith in Science

176

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

177

Update: Farm Wars

178

Update: Killer of James Means Seeks to Revoke Plea

179

What, Us Worry?: Life After MAD

180

Update: Justice for James Means

181

My Friend From Camp

182

Immigrant ‘Concentration Camps’ on the Southern Border?

183

Pride in the Mountain State

184

Reckoning with Sexual Assault: Righting a Wrong

185

Farm Wars

186

Still Waiting For Justice

187

Waiting for Justice

188

Opioid Recovery in Appalachia's Ground Zero

189

States Look to Appalachia for Vaccination Laws

190

Reconnecting With Femme Voice

191

Scarlet Letters and Second Chances

192

Black Talk

193

Cave Men, The Patriarchy & Fairytales

194

My Friend From Camp

195

War on Christmas…Really? 2018

196

Culture Clash: Back to the Border

197

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

198

The Great Textbook War

199

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

202

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!

214

Hillers and Creekers

215

The Church Lady

216

Gentrification (or that Kumbaya moment)

217

The Elephant in the Classroom

218

Housing in Paradise

219

Revisiting the Grand Palace

220

Love, the Ayatollah, and Revolution

221

Touching the Third Rail with Katharine Hayhoe

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Heroin: N'ganga Dimitri

223

Under the Microscope: Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

224

EXTRA CUTS: My Friend From Camp

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My Friend From Camp

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A Suburb of Hell

227

The Black Talk

228

The "Talk"

229

Trapped on the Turnpike

230

Panhandlers: To Give Or Not to Give?

231

A New Year, A Reprise, Amazing Grace

232

Feminism Is The Word

233

His Name's DJ

234

Killing James Means

235

The Church Lady

236

Community and Cops Talking Across the Divide

237

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

238

Shack! - A Civil Rights Story

239

Two Tales of Coal

240

Hillers & Creekers!

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Confederate Reckoning: When Will The Civil War End?

242

Remembering New Math & Common Core

243

Deanna, Tymel & Amarie

244

Amazing Grace

245

Sodomy, Stonewall & Pride

246

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

247

Gentrification: That Kumbayah Moment

248

What I Learned About Empathy from a Textbook

249

Reasserting Femme Voice

250

Love, the Ayatollah & Revolution

251

Coming Out of the Closet

252

Serious as a Heart Attack

253

Taking an Ass Whoopin’

254

Hello Mary Lou...

255

The Changing Face of Heroin

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Heroin I - N'ganga Dimitri

257

Femme Voice

258

Shack!

259

Trapped on the Turnpike

260

The Refugee Trail with Scott Carrier

261

War on Christmas…Really?

262

Islamophobia

263

Atheism

264

Enemies

265

Locked Up For Sodomy

266

A Confederate Reckoning

267

Strangers With Cameras In Appalachia

268

New Math

269

Textbook Watchdogs

270

The Church Lady

271

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

272

In Dixieland, I'll Take My Stand

273

Sex Ed for Grown-ups

274

The Talk

275

To Give or Not to Give

276

Revisiting the Grand Palace

277

The Great Textbook War

278

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

279

Trey & Alice