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    Wonking Week: Play Hardball

    In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss the fracas in Wisconsin and the start of the baseball season. In addition, Idea Lobby blogger Emily Badger examines academic freedom.
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    Audio portions for this week’s Wonking Week podcast were drawn from:

    - Samples from our first story on the events in Wisconsin were taken from citizen reporters at the following links: one, two and three.

    - The outro to our discussion of Wisconsin was taken from an election advertisement for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

    - The outro to our interview with Emily Badger was taken from a speech about collective bargaining in Poland given by President Ronald Reagan.

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