Radio Times
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A reality check on the Benghazi and IRS investigations
Guests:? Jonathan Landay and Jodi Schneider It's been a rough couple of days for President Obama when it comes to scandal, crisis and politics. On Wednesday, the White House tried to quell criticism over how it responded to [...]
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Peter Edelman on why U.S. is 'So Rich, So Poor'
GUEST: PETER EDELMAN [REBROADCAST] PETER EDELMAN has been working to raise awareness about and fighting to end poverty in the United States for four decades.? Touring the Mississippi Delta in 1967 with his boss, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, [...]
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Pennsylvania's Office of Open Records and the...
Guest: Terry Muchler Pennsylvania had long been considered one of the least transparent states in the country until 2008 when lawmakers rewrote the Commonwealth's open-records law. The Right-to-Know Law mandated the creation of an independent Office of Open [...]
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Celebrating Steampunk culture; then the Associated Press...
GUESTS: MANO DIVINA, GIL CNAAN and JANE KIRTLEY Strap on your brass goggles, tuck into a fantasy airship and enjoy the ride as we explore the Victorian futuristic fashion and literary universe known as "Steampunk" with Divine Hand [...]
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The global garment industry: Bangladesh, workers' safety...
Guests: Scott Nova and Pietra Rivoli After last month's factory fire in Bangladesh that killed over 1,000 workers, three of the world's largest clothing manufacturers have agreed to a plan that would require retailers to help pay for [...]
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Who's getting married, who isn't and why
Guest:? Andrew Cherlin In honor of the start of wedding season, we're going to spend the hour talking about the state of the American marriage. Despite the odds (the U.S. Census Bureau says roughly 50% of first marriages [...]
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Should refusing medical care for children be considered...
Guests:? Paul Offit and Shawn Peters Eight-month old Brandon Schaible died last month after his parents relied on prayer instead of medical care to treat their sick baby. The Schaibles, who live in Philadelphia and are members of [...]
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on her new novel "Americanah"
Guest: Chimanamda Ngozi Adichie In the ten years since her first book was published when she was just 25, CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE has won considerable praise, a MacArthur Genius Award, and numerous awards for her stories and novels. [...]
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Governor Christie's weight-loss surgery
Guests: Matt Katz, Thomas Wadden, Margaret Bonafide New Jersey Governor Chris Christie revealed last week that he underwent gastric band surgery in February. The Governor explained his reasons for the secret weight loss surgery to the New York [...]
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Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution
GUEST: NATHANIEL PHILBRICK Was the order, "Don't fire 'till you see the whites of their eyes" really shouted at rebels near Boston's Breed's Hill? How was Boston the 'cradle of liberty' as one in five families were slave [...]
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The Brothers Emanuel
Guest: EZEKIEL EMANUEL HR 1 [REBROADCAST]EZEKIEL EMANUEL is the eldest brother of the current Mayor of Chicago and former White House Chief of Staff, and a powerful Hollywood agent immortalized in the HBO series, "Entourage" - Rahm and [...]
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Maria Bello on her acting and activism
Hour 2 Guest: Maria Bello Actor MARIA BELLO has won acclaim for her roles in the films The History of Violence and The Cooler.? She's appeared in many television shows including starring as Detective Jane Timoney in last [...]
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Housing market recovery?
Guests: Todd Sinai, Stan Humphries Home prices are increasing at their fastest rate since 2006.? According to the S&P Case-Shiller Index of 20 U.S. cities, prices for a single family house rose 9.3 percent from February 2012 to [...]
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The Great Gatsby
Hour 2 Guests:? Suzanne Del Gizzo and Michael Tatner The newest film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925, jazz era novel The Great Gatsby opens in movie theaters this weekend. This time around, Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann has [...]
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Hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay — ethics and the law
Hour 1 Guests:? Carol Rosenberg, Jonathan Marks and Scott Allen Over 100 inmates at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center have been on a hunger strike since February in protest of their seemingly indefinite detention and the alleged mishandling [...]
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Plan B, politics and parents
Guests:? Jessica Arons and Joan Vennochi Back in 2011, in a controversial decision, Health and Human Services Secretary Katherine Sebelius announced that the morning after pill, known as Plan B One-Step, would be available over-the-counter only to women [...]
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Why your online purchases could get more expensive
Guests: Michael Mazerov and Megan McArdle Do you shop online?? If so, your purchases could get a little more expensive. ?The Senate passed the Marketplace Fairness Act yesterday which will force Internet retailers to collect sales tax on [...]
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Pennsylvania, drug tests, unemployment and job creation
Hour 2 Guests:? David Taylor and Paul Harrington In an interview last week about Pennsylvania's declining job growth numbers, Governor Tom Corbett said that among the challenges employers face in hiring is that too many job applicants can't [...]
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Analysis of President Obama's trip to Mexico
GUESTS: TIM JOHNSON and CHRISTOPHER WILSON Is a new Mexico emerging? That's what President Obama said in a speech Friday during his two-day trip to Mexico, his fourth as President. He met with Mexico's president, Enrique Pena Nieto [...]
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Anatomy of violence
Guest: Adrian Raine Why does someone commit a violent crime?? Is it their genes, their environment or a combination of the two? Neurocriminologist ADRIAN RAINE has been studying the psychological origins of crime for 30 years and, through [...]
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The Kermit Gosnell trial
Guests: Joe Slobodzian, Carol Tracy, Edel Finnegan The jury in the murder trial of the West Philadelphia abortion provider Kermit Gosnell began deliberations on Tuesday after a seven-week long trial.? Gosnell is charged on four counts of first-degree [...]
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Alexandra Horowitz: "On Looking"
Guest: Alexandra Horowitz [REBROADCAST] Take a walk around the block and look around — what do you see? ?What don't you see?? Cognitive scientist ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ says that most of us fail to see a lot of the [...]
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Health care law update
Hour 1 Guests: David Grande, Robert Field The Affordable Care Act, what's popularly known as Obamacare, is three years old but a recent poll shows that 42 percent of Americans don't even know it is law. ?According to [...]
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'Embers of War': Historian Fredrik Logevall traces long...
GUEST: FREDRIK LOGEVALL [REBROADCAST] Why did Vietnam became the setting for one of the longest and bloodiest struggles of the entire post-1945 era, and why did two Western powers, first France and then the United States, lose their [...]
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Syria: crossing the red line and U.S. action forward
Guests:? Brian Katulis and Michael Noonan Back in August 2012, President Obama warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that if he used chemical weapons against his own people, he would be crossing a "red line" and that such actions [...]
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Good TV worth watching
GUEST: DAVID BIANCULLI With all the changes in styles of viewing, following TV shows is still an American pastime. We can become distracted by all the options of when and how we watch - traditional TV, streaming online, [...]
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Solitary confinement: the historical and contempory...
Guests:? Sean Kelley, Jules Lobel and Shirley Moore Smeal There are upwards of 25,000 prisoners in the United States who are housed in solitary confinement units, some of whom reside in these units for decades. In Pennsylvania, where [...]
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What do you say to a sick friend?
Guest:? Letty Cottin Pogrebin What do you say to a sick friend and why is it so difficult to come up with the words and actions that both adequately express our concern and at the same time offer [...]
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Pennsylvania politics with Baer and Micek
Guests:? John Baer and John Micek There are some interesting things going on in Harrisburg.? Next week's three scheduled Senate hearings on the effort to privatize Pennsylvania's liquor stores could tell us more about what it will take [...]
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Electric Cars: Present and Future Developments
Guests: John Voelcker, Tom Turrentine, Willett Kempton With about 100,000 electric cars on the roads in the United States, they are a small but growing sector of the auto industry. Improvements in battery technology and several new models [...]
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia with writer Mohsin...
GUEST: MOHSIN HAMID [REBROADCAST] Pakistan-based writer MOHSIN HAMID's latest book is "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia." Written as a? self-help novel, with chapters like "Avoid Idealists" and "Befriend a Bureaucrat," it ?follows the life of [...]
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Michael Pollan: Cooked
Guests: Michael Pollan "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." That's the famous advice of food writer MICHAEL POLLAN.? Pollan has written a number of bestselling books exploring the problems with America's industrialized food system and the way [...]
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Vali Nasr: Dispensable Nation
Guest: Vali Nasr Middle East scholar VALI NASR knows President Obama's foreign policy inside and out.? From 2009 to 2011, Nasr was a senior adviser to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and worked closely with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. [...]
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Local, award-winning poets DAISY FRIED and LYNN LEVIN
GUESTS: DAISY FRIED and LYNN LEVIN "Women's poetry is like a car - it might have purple lights underneath, or outrageous hubcaps, or an enormous spoiler jutting off the back, but underneath it's still a car." You'll hear [...]
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Revisiting King's Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Guest:? Jonathan Rieder Fifty years ago this month, from his cramped, dirty jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama, Martin Luther King, Jr. drafted a letter in response to eight white moderate clergymen who had issued a statement criticizing the [...]
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Celebrating 100 years of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
GUEST: DAVID LUDWIG This May marks the 100th anniversary of Russian composer Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring," performed by the Ballets Russes at the Theatre de Champs-Elysees in Paris. The score to a ballet borrowed from Russian [...]
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Senate politics: Immigration reform and gun laws
Last week was an interesting one in the U.S. Senate. A bi-partisan "Gang of Eight" unveiled their long-awaited bill to overhaul the nation's immigration system. Debate over the legislation began in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday in [...]
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The botany in our booze with author Amy Stewart
Guest:? Amy Stewart Plants are popping out of the ground and spring gardening is well underway so we're lifting our glasses to some of the botanicals in our favorite drinks. Agave, juniper, barely, sugarcane, corn, spearmint, wormwood - [...]
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What drives radicalization; then media coverage of the...
Guests: John Horgan and Rem Rieder What does it take for a young man to go from being what friends said was a "regular" kid to someone who commits a heinous act of violence? What would motivate that [...]
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Taxidermy: history, art and culture
Guests: Rachel Poliquin, Beth Beverly Walk into any natural history museum and you'll see the animal dioramas - lions prowling the African veldt, a herd of buffalo on an American prairie, a polar bear towering over a dead [...]
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Adam Rome and "The Genius of Earth Day"
GUEST: ADAM ROME Over forty years ago this month, an important political event took place that caused reverberations throughout the country. The Genius of Earth Day is the story of the first Earth Day, its significance, and how [...]
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Update on Boston Bombings Investigation
GUESTS:? Kevin Cullen, Emma Gilligan, Terry Boult As events unfold in Boston, we'll explore the bombing investigation from three perspectives. We'll start off with Boston Globe columnist Kevin Cullen who has been writing about the bombings.?? He's on [...]
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"Fire and Forget" and the value of war stories
Guests:? Matt Gallagher and Roy Scranton Fire and Forget is an anthology of short stories about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the post-war lives of those who served. All written by veterans, the stories reflect the [...]
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Digital Etiquette
Guest: Daniel Post Senning It's probably happened to you - a friend answers a text at dinner or checks their email in the middle of a conversation.? Maybe you're the guilty one.? Sometimes it seems like good manners [...]
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Continuing coverage of the bombings in Boston
Guests:? John Chovanes, Ron Fournier and Heather Hurlburt As the details surrounding Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon unfold, we'll continue our coverage. We're joined in this hour of Radio Times by Cooper University Hospital trauma surgeon JOHN [...]
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"Far from the Tree" with author Andrew Solomon
Guest:? Andrew Solomon In his new book,? Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity, writer ANDREW SOLOMON tells the complicated, sometimes heartbreaking and oftentimes compelling stories of parents who not only learn to cope [...]
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Reaction to the Boston bombings
Guests:? Kevin Cullen Charles Ramsey and Tricia Wachtendorf In the aftermath of the tragic bombings at the Boston Marathon yesterday we get reaction from Boston Globe columnist KEVIN CULLEN, Philadelphia Police Commissioner CHARLES RAMSEY and TRICIA WACHTENDORF of [...]
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Meet Poet Ernest Hilbert
GUEST: ERNEST HILBERT Many years ago our guest ERNEST HILBERT washed dishes after college to make ends meet – he would tape a poem on the dishwasher and memorize it to inspire him, like many artists before him, [...]
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The ins and outs of federal tax policy
GUEST: ROBERTON WILLIAMS It's Tax Day. Have you filed your taxes yet for 2012? Are you claiming the right tax credits for education, a child and child care?? ROBERTON WILLIAMS, Tax analyst and Sol Price Fellow at the [...]
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Babies, language and the developing brain
Guests:? Roberta Golinkoff, Trude Haecker Talk to your baby - it's critical for their developing brains. And researchers now know that the choice and number of words that parents use matter.? Early exposure to language helps predict kids' [...]
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A conversation with Michael Smerconish; then Bill Adair...
Guests:? Michael Smerconish and Bill Adair MICHAEL SMERCONISH announced last month that he is taking his syndicated, Philadelphia-based talk show to SiriusXM radio starting this Monday, April 15th.? Calling his style a "non-ideological brand of talk" he's soured [...]
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When sibling rivalry follows us into adulthood
[REBROADCAST] For most of us, the bickering and battling with our brothers and sisters when we were children become amusing pieces of our family history. But for others, unresolved hurts and jealousies accompany us into adulthood and have [...]
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Debating gun regulation
GUESTS: JOHN GRAMLICH, BOB CAVNAR and GAREN J. WINTEMUT Firearm background checks may expand to include online purchases, guns bought at shows and through private sales. A bi-partisan bill was announced yesterday sponsored by Senators Joe Manchin III [...]
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Frans de Waal: Primates, evolution and morality
Hour 2 Guests: Frans de Waal Morality is not unique to humans.? Biologist FRANS DE WAAL has found ethical behavior like empathy, altruism, and fairness in chimpanzees, bonobos and capuchin monkeys.? De Waal is the director of the [...]
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Keystone XL Pipeline debate
Guests: Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, Amy Myers Jaffe The Obama administration is expected to make a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline expansion in the next few months.? The pipeline would carry 800,000 barrels a day of tar sands crude [...]
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Jackie Robinson and the civil rights movement
Guests:? Chris Lamb and Michael Long On April 15, 1947, when Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves on opening day of Major League Baseball, marriage between blacks and whites in most [...]
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The problem with Pennsylvania's system of halfway houses...
Guests: John Wetzel and Sam Dolnick A new report by the Pennsylvania Corrections Department shows that the state's halfway houses are failing.? Recidivism rates are higher for inmates paroled to halfway houses than inmates released directly to the [...]
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Give and Take: helpfulness as a key to success
GUEST: ADAM GRANT Are you sick of being the patient doormat at work, passed by the fierce, ambitious type of co-worker who always seems to get ahead? Well, nice guys and gals may finish first, according to our [...]
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The Rutgers University basketball coaching scandal
Guests:? David Ridpath and Eric Zillmer Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice was fired last week after videos of his abusive behavior towards players were made public.? Rice was shown being physically aggressive and yelling homophobic slurs during practice.?? [...]
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The debate on paid sick leave in Philadelphia
GUESTS: RANDY LOBASSO, MARIANNE BELLESORTE? & WILLIAM DUNKELBERG Last week Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter vetoed the Earned Sick Days Bill recently passed by City Council. This is the second time around for the bill, championed by Councilman Bill [...]
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Debating 'no smoker' hiring policies
Guests: Harald Schmidt, David Asch Smokers need not apply to the University of Pennsylvania Health System starting this July when a ban on hiring nicotine users will go into effect.? Penn Health system says this policy is an [...]
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How to protect yourself from scams
[Rebroadcast] Tens of billions of dollars are lost each year to consumer fraud and when the economy is down, fraud goes up.? These last years have been boom times for scammers.? While research shows that many of us [...]
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200 Years of Latino History in Philadelphia
Guests: Erika Almiron, Sabrina Vourvoulias, Victor Vazquez Hailing from several different regions and close to half a million strong, Latinos have played a central role in Philadelphia, from politics to civic life. From the time of the founding [...]
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The financial lives of twenty-somethings
Guests: Annie Lowrey and Tamara Draut In an article in last week's New York Times Magazine, writer ANNIE LOWREY posed a provocative question — "Do Millennials Stand a Chance in the Real World?? Victims of the financial meltdown, [...]
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What's behind North Korea's latest threats?
Guests: Joel Wit and Marcus Noland North Korea's relatively young and untested leader Kim Jong-un? has been making some bold threats recently.? Yesterday, he announced the country would open a nuclear reactor it had closed five years ago.? [...]
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US and American Airlines merger
Guests: Henry Harteveldt and Brian Kelly Last week a federal bankruptcy judge approved the merger of US Airways and American Airlines allowing the $11 billion plan to go forward. When joined, the two companies would become the world's [...]
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The Brothers Emanuel
Guest: EZEKIEL EMANUEL EZEKIEL EMANUEL is the eldest brother of the current Mayor of Chicago and former White House Chief of Staff, and a powerful Hollywood agent immortalized in the HBO series, "Entourage" - Rahm and Ari Emanuel. [...]
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Household chores — figuring out who does what and why...
Guests:? Wendy Klein, Andy Hinds, Emily Oster Let's be honest....no one likes doing chores, but the good news is much has changed at home when it comes to sharing the responsibilities of raising children and maintaining a home.? [...]
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An update on the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention facility
CAROL ROSENBERG, BENJAMIN WITTES & DAVID FRAKT At least 31 prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center have joined a hunger strike to protest the conditions and their indefinite detainment, according to some of the detainees' lawyers. When [...]
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Marlene Zuk on "Paleofantasy"
Guest: Marlene Zuk Have you tried barefoot running, the Caveman Diet or attachment parenting?? Taking lessons from our ancient ancestors has become all the rage lately.? But evolutionary biologist MARLENE ZUK warns that our Paleolithic past was far [...]
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The Supreme Court hearings on gay marriage
Guests: Ed Whelan, Tobias Wolff This week the Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases related to same-sex marriage. On Tuesday the justices considered Hollingsworth v. Perry, debating the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California's ban on same-sex marriage. [...]
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Rebecca Skloot, 'The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks'
[REBROADCAST] Henrietta Lacks was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors; she died in obscurity more than 60 years ago, buried in an unmarked grave. But her cells, taken by scientists [...]
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Rebuilding the American Dream
Guest: Carl Van Horn The unemployment rate has been improving in recent months, dipping to 7.7 percent in February, a four-year low.? Still millions of Americans are jobless and have been for years. Rutgers Public Policy Professor CARL [...]
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Composer Mohammed Fairouz
Guest: MOHAMMED FAIROUZ New York-based composer, MOHAMMED FAIROUZ, hears music everywhere - on the street, in the subway and in taxis – and through lives of people from different backgrounds. He believes he can overcome the fear of [...]
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New Jersey's gay conversion therapy ban is up for debate
Guests: BRIGID HARRISON, PETERSON TOSCANO and CLINTON ANDERSON Last week the New Jersey State Senate committee passed a bill that would outlaw licensed therapists practicing gay conversion therapy. Governor Chris Christie has not signed the bill, co-sponsored by [...]
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Douglas Rushkoff's Present Shock
Guest: DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Do you often feel you aren't on your game because you're not hip to the new trend and are behind in your tweets? Our guest, author DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, has been observing our culture's need to [...]
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The health and stability of our financial system
Guests:? Jesse Eisinger and Anat Admati Is the financial system any safer today four years after the bank bailout? The Dobb-Frank financial reform bill was supposed to bring stability, accountability and transparency to Wall Street but a lot [...]
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State takeover of Camden public schools
Guests: Matt Katz, John Mooney and Sean Brown Saying that the crisis in the Camden schools is "chronic and severe," Governor Chris Christie yesterday announced the state will take over the city's public school system within as little [...]
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The controversy surrounding "Being White in Philly"
GUESTS: ROBERT HUBER and TOM MCGRATH Philadelphia Magazine's March cover story, "Being White in Philly: Whites, Race, Class, and the Things that Never Get Said," has created a local media phenomenon. The story, written by journalist ROBERT HUBER, [...]
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Online Comments
Guests: Dietram Scheufele, Meghan Daum, Bob Cohn Do you read the comments at the end of an article or blog?? Do you post responses yourself? ?A recent study examined the effect of online comments on readers and found [...]
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Pennsylvania's new Megan's Law
Guests: CAPTAIN SCOTT PRICE, TED GLACKMAN and GREG ROWE Pennsylvania's new and stricter Megan's Law took effect in December making the Commonwealth the sixteenth state to comply with the federal Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act.? The [...]
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Jonah Berger on how products, behaviors and ideas catch...
Guest:? Jonah Berger Why does a fad become a fad?? Why does a video go viral?? What makes some products catch on when others fail?? Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger has spent the last 10 years researching the [...]
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Salt, Sugar and Fat
GUEST: MICHAEL MOSS If you eat processed food, how much do you scrutinize the ingredients on the package? Our guest, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, MICHAEL MOSS, has considered the quality of these ingredients, including identifying the 8,500 milligrams [...]
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Rethinking law schools
Guests: Brian Tamanaha, Lawrence Mitchell Law schools are in trouble. Applications are at a 30-year low and rising tuitions have led to high student debt.? A weak job market has meant that many graduates can't find a good [...]
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Assessing the media coverage of the war in Iraq
Guests:? JONATHAN LANDAY, MARK THOMPSON In 2004, the New York Times ran an unprecedented apology for its reporting in the lead-up to the U.S. war in Iraq admitting that their work?"was not as rigorous as it should have [...]
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Should the PLCB be privatized?
GUESTS: LEW BRYSON and MARC STIER On Monday, Pennsylvania's House Committee on Liquor Control presented their revised version of Governor Corbett's bill to privatize the sale of wine and hard liquor. The plan includes potentially slowing down the [...]
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The legacy of the war in Iraq
Guests:? CELESTE ZAPPALA, LAURA JACOBY, PAUL RIECKHOFF Ten years ago today, the U.S. launched its invasion of Iraq without finding weapons of mass destruction but eventually toppling the reign of Saddam Hussein.? Since the war began at least [...]
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Mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin asks "Do You Dream in Color?"
Our guest, mezzo-soprano, LAURIE RUBIN, has performed at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, has sung under John Williams' baton, and is a co-founder of a performing arts school. She's recorded two CDs, and has written a book, which [...]
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Dueling Budgets
Hour 1 Guests: Michael Tanner and Jared Bernstein Last week House Republicans and Senate Democrats unveiled their competing budget plans. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's proposal aims to balance the budget in a decade by cutting $4.6 [...]
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A conversation with Philadelphia activist and...
Guest:? Judy Wicks JUDY WICKS founded the White Dog Cafe on the first floor of her house along a row of threatened brownstones in West Philadelphia. Over the years she grew what began as a small muffin shop [...]
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Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court
Guest: Sandra Day O'Connor Justice SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR was the first woman to sit on the United States Supreme Court.? She joins us in studio to discuss her new book, "Out of Order: Stories from the History of [...]
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Lincoln's code: the fundamentals of international war...
[REBROADCAST] 1863 was a very bloody year as thousands of Americans were killed in many Civil War battles, despite the hopeful start of the year, as the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln on January 1st. But [...]
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Fishermen's Energy & the future of wind energy in New...
GUESTS: CHRIS WISSEMANN, JEFF TITTEL and STEFANIE BRAND We examine the future of wind energy in New Jersey from three different perspectives. Should wind farms come to the Garden State? First, we get an inside look from Fishermen's [...]
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Alexandra Horowitz: "On Looking"
Guest: Alexandra Horowitz Take a walk around the block and look around — what do you see? ?What don't you see?? Cognitive scientist ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ says that most of us fail to see a lot of the world [...]
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The justice gap — the challenge of providing legal...
Guests:? MARC BOOKMAN, CATHERINE CARR, JAMES FUNT Fifty years ago this month, in the case Gideon v. Wainwright, the U.S. Supreme court ruled that poor people charged with a felony were entitled to government-financed legal representation.? Over the [...]
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The pros and cons of working from home
Guests:? Raymond Fisman and Jennifer Glass Like many technology companies, Yahoo had a corporate culture that encouraged employees to work remotely providing them with flexible work hours and less time spent commuting.? All that will come to an [...]
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The debate over the use of unmanned drones over U.S....
GUESTS:? BEN GIELOW and JAY STANLEY In five years the Federal Aviation Administration estimates that there will be 7,500 commercially operated drones flying in the United States, and even more if you include public institutions. The idea of [...]
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The Contradictions of Fair Hope
GUESTS: S. EPATHA MERKERSON and ROCKELL METCALF The Fair Hope Benevolent Society in rural Alabama was an organization that originally helped former slaves bury their dead, and aid the sick of transitional families in the late 19th century. [...]
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The Chavez Legacy
Guests: George Ciccariello-Maher, Francisco Toro Last week, former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died after a two-year battle with cancer at the age of 58.?He was a polarizing figure in Venezuela and the world. To some, he was a [...]
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The legacy of Pope Benedict and hopes for the future of...
GUESTS:? SISTER SIMONE CAMPBELL, WILLIAM MADGES, BETHANY WELCH Cardinals from across the globe have gathered in Vatican City in preparation for the conclave to elect the successor to Pope Benedict XVI.? Pope Benedict announced his resignation from the [...]
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Philadelphia's controversial school closures
GUESTS: BENJAMIN HEROLD, WILLIAM HITE JR., LORI SHORR We'll respond to the school closures announced last night, and the politics and process that led the School District of Philadelphia to the extremely controversial management strategy. Joining guest-host MAIKEN [...]
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A Circus Life: the art and history of the big top
Guest: Duncan Wall Have you ever dreamed of running off to join the circus?? That's exactly what DUNCAN WALL did.? After studying the circus in Paris he became so intrigued he decided to apply to the prestigious Ecole [...]
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Cell phone video & public-police relationship
GUESTS: DAVID RUDOVSKY, JERRY RATCLIFFE, TIMOTHY B. LEE Cell phone video footage captured then-Philadelphia Police Lt. Jonathan Josey striking a woman in the face at the street celebrations in North Philadelphia following September's Puerto Rican Day Parade. When [...]
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Novelist Karen Russell finds 'Vampires in the Lemon...
GUEST: KAREN RUSSELL KAREN RUSSELL has enjoyed critical acclaim and success since her novel, "Swamplandia!," was published in 2011. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and is being adapted for HBO. Her new book, "Vampires in [...]
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The civil war in Syria: The conflict, U.S. policy and...
GUESTS:? SAMER ABBOUD and ANDREW TABLER Last week, for the first time since the civil war in Syria began two years ago, the U.S. announced its support for the Syrian opposition movement.? In a major shift in policy, [...]
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia with writer Mohsin...
GUEST: MOHSIN HAMID Pakistan-based writer MOHSIN HAMID's latest book is "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia." Written as a? self-help novel, with chapters like "Avoid Idealists" and "Befriend a Bureaucrat," it ?follows the life of a [...]
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Proposals for a new Philadelphia Federation of Teachers...
GUESTS:? WILLIAM HITE, RON WHITESTONE, ANDREW ROTHERHAM Philadelphia School District leaders say that in order to prevent a deficit of $1 billion over the next five years, they will be asking teachers to make major concessions that would [...]
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Auto update: Self-driving vehicles and new car trends
Guests: BRYANT WALKER SMITH and DAN NEIL If you haven't bought a new car in the last few years, you may be surprised by all the advanced systems now available to assist you driving. There are infrared sensors, [...]
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Post-sequestration politics: Libertarian & progressive...
GUESTS: MATT WELCH & MATT YGLESIAS To "resolve" the summer 2011 standoff over extending the federal debt ceiling, President Obama and congressional Republicans agreed to form a "supercommittee" to come up with a debt reduction plan. At the [...]
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To Sell is Human
Guest: DANIEL PINK According to the 2012 Bureau of Labor Statistics, one in nine people work in sales. And the other nine work in sales, too, according to our guest, DANIEL PINK. Employees pitch new ideas to their [...]
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New Jersey and Pennsylvania politics deconstructed
GUESTS:? CHARLES STILE, JOHN BAER, JOHN MICEK We'll start off this hour of Radio Times with an update on New Jersey politics in the week of Governor Chris Christie's budget address, which surprisingly included a reversal expanding Medicaid [...]
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'A Place at the Table' for Witnesses to Hunger: A new...
GUESTS: BARBIE IZQUIERDO, MARIANA CHILTON, LORI SILVERBUSH and KRISTI JACOBSON "A Place at the Table" is a new documentary about the crisis of hunger in America today that was an Official Selection of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. [...]
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David Leonhardt on the sequester, the debt, the deficit...
GUEST:? DAVID LEONHARDT Tomorrow is the day the sequester is set to kick in — that's the $85 billion in government spending cuts for the coming year that resulted from the failure of Congress in 2011 to raise [...]
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Peter Edelman on why U.S. is 'So Rich, So Poor'
GUEST: PETER EDELMAN PETER EDELMAN has been working to raise awareness about and fighting to end poverty in the United States for four decades.? Touring the Mississippi Delta in 1967 with his boss, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, exposed [...]
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The history and legacy of mass incarceration in the U.S.
GUESTS:? KEITH REEVES, JANE SIEGEL, HEATHER ANN THOMPSON As a result of stricter drug laws and more rigid sentencing guidelines enacted in the 1970s, the U.S. prison population has grown by 500 percent over the past thirty years.? [...]
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A healthy economy based on a happy country
Guests: Professors ANGUS DEATON and ARTHUR A. STONE How do we measure the health of the economy by how happy we are? Several national leaders and economists are increasingly looking at their countries' collective happiness. The small Kingdom [...]
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The 'moral hazard' & Sandy relief: Do federal funds...
Hour 1 GUESTS: HOWARD KUNREUTHER and SCOTT KNOWLES This morning, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is briefing Philadelphia and Pennsylvania leaders about applying for federal aid in response to the storm called Sandy that ravaged the region at [...]
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The Past and Future of USPS
Hour 2 GUESTS: RICHARD R. JOHN Will the mail continue to be important as Americans are more engaged in the digital age? The financially strapped United States Postal Service (USPS) will be ceasing their Saturday delivery service, with [...]
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What is AVI, and what will it mean for Philadelphia?
GUESTS: ROB DUBOW, PATRICK KERKSTRA and KEVIN GILLEN Philadelphia is in the midst of a massive overhaul of its property tax system. Mayor Michael Nutter's Actual Value Initiative, known by its acronym AVI, is attempting to match city [...]
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The life and art of Horace Pippin
GUESTS: JUDY STEIN, GWENDOLYN DUBOIS SHAW, JEN BRYANT This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of African American artist Horace Pippin who was born and lived most of his adult life in West Chester, Pennsylvania.?? Entirely [...]
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Vow: A Memoir of Marriage (And Other Affairs)
GUEST:? WENDY PLUMP WENDY PLUMP found out from a friend that her husband was cheating on her.? What made it even worse was that he had a child with his mistress and this second family lived a few [...]
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85th Academy Awards preview
GUESTS: PIERS MARCHANT, MATTHEW QUICK and SAM FRENCH The 85th Academy Awards are this Sunday, February 24th, and we're going to listen back to Marty's interviews with local connections to two nominated films: writer MATTHEW QUICK, whose debut [...]
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Nuclear weapons and nonproliferation
GUEST:? WARD WILSON North Korea conducted its third underground nuclear test last week, the same day President Obama addressed the country in his State of the Union speech. ?Obama has made reducing the nation's nuclear arsenal a priority [...]
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The Science of Winning and Losing
GUESTS: PO BRONSON and ASHLEY MERRYMAN How can you make the best of your inner competitive spirit? According to our guests, competition must work if the participants know the rules of the game. Author PO BRONSON and journalist [...]
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'A Place at the Table' for Witnesses to Hunger: A new...
GUESTS: BARBIE IZQUIERDO, MARIANA CHILTON, LORI SILVERBUSH and KRISTI JACOBSON "A Place at the Table" is a new documentary about the crisis of hunger in America today that was an Official Selection of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. [...]
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Obama's early education proposal
President Obama wants to provide quality early education for all low to moderate income 4-year olds. Last week the White House provided more details on the proposal which would involve a? partnership with states to guarantee preschool for [...]
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Addiction: tightening the gap between research and...
Are addiction treatment centers prepared to provide the care necessary for sustainable sobriety? And how can we successfully track those suffering from addiction after they have 'graduated' from intensive treatment? We'll get an update on how the growing [...]
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The secrets of happy families with Bruce Feiler
Guest:? BRUCE FEILER For his new book, The Secrets of Happy Families, Bruce Feiler used his experience as an investigative reporter to discover new techniques and ideas to make contemporary family life more functional, more meaningful and more [...]
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Debating PA Gov. Corbett's budget proposal
GUESTS: DONNA COOPER and MATTHEW BROUILLETTE Earlier this month, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett unveiled a budget proposal for the fiscal year beginning July 1st, and launched an annual battle over dollars and priorities across the commonwealth. The $28.4 [...]
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'Eslanda,' a new look at Paul Robeson's remarkable and...
GUEST: BARBARA RANSBY Paul Robeson, one of the most interesting figures of the 20th Century, has been the subject of dozens of books. Not so his remarkable life partner, Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson, an unsung heroine of [...]
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Cybersecurity and the growing threats
Guests: SIOBHAN GORMAN, ALAN PALLER and JAMES LEWIS On Tuesday, President Obama signed an Executive Order to protect the country's critical infrastructure from cyber attacks. ?As he announced Tuesday night in his State of the Union address, the [...]
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Learning about love from arranged marriages; then the...
Guests:? ROBERT EPSTEIN, REVA SETH and BENJAMIN KARNEY The notion of an arranged marriage (by choice) seems odd to most of us but several recent studies have found that such unions are just as likely, if not more [...]
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Analyzing the State of the Union address and the...
Guests:? Ben Berger, Lara Brown and Imani Perry Last night, before Congress and the nation, President Obama addressed the state of the union and outlined his second term agenda.?? He focused on the middle class, pledging action on [...]
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California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom on 'Citizenville'
GUEST: GAVIN NEWSOM You may recognize the name GAVIN NEWSOM from his historic 2004 decision as San Francisco Mayor to allow same-sex marriages. He is now the lieutenant governor of the State of California, following his two terms [...]
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How to predict the next financial crisis, with Steve...
GUESTS: STEVE CLEMONS and RICHARD VAGUE Are we missing the forest for the trees by focusing on government debt and not private debt? According to a recent report, "How to Predict the Next Financial Crisis" (link to pdf),? [...]
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Separating fact from fiction on weight loss and obesity
Hour 2 GUESTS:? DAVID SARWER and STELLA VOLPE An article in last week's issue of The New England Journal caught our attention. It's authors identified seven commonly held beliefs about obesity and weight loss that actually have never [...]
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Guns and politics
GUESTS: RICHARD FELDMAN and ROBERT SPITZER Vice President Biden is in Philadelphia today to hold a roundtable discussion on gun violence with law enforcement officials. He's been leading the White Houses effort for tougher gun laws including a [...]
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Black Media in the 21st Century
GUESTS: SARA LOMAX REESE, IRV RANDOLPH and LORI THARPS What is the role of Black Media today? As the landscape of journalism is exponentially changing, and those working in the field are taking inventory of how they cover [...]
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'Embers of War': Historian Fredrik Logevall traces long...
Why did Vietnam became the setting for one of the longest and bloodiest struggles of the entire post-1945 era, and why did two Western powers, first France and then the United States, lose their way there? In his [...]
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'Soul Food Junkies': Filmmaker Byron Hurt examines...
In the new PBS film "Soul Food Junkies," Newark, NJ-based filmmaker BYRON HURT sets out on a historical and culinary journey to learn more about the soul food tradition and its relevance to black cultural identity. Hurt's exploration [...]
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School closures and safety
The Philadelphia School District's proposed plan to close 37 public schools by the end of the school year has some people worried about safety. Under the new plan, 17,000 students will be relocated and will have to find [...]
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Philly Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey; then Barbara...
Philadelphia Police Commissioner CHARLES RAMSEY joins us to brief us on his contribution to the Gun Violence Panel convened by Vice President Joe Biden and appointed by President Obama. That panel's work culminated in four ambitious legislative proposals [...]
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Al Gore on 'The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change'
Former Vice President AL GORE has a new book out, inspired by his restless quest for understanding of the factors reshaping our world. It's called "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change," and it ties together global climate [...]
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Cats and their impact on wildlife
A new report says that outdoor cats are a major threat to wildlife.? Free-ranging cats, including pets that go outside, stray and feral cats, are the leading cause of death for birds and small mammals, killing billions each [...]
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A history of the financial crisis from economist Alan...
In his new book, After the Music Stopped, economist ALAN BLINDER offers a history of the financial crisis — its causes and the government efforts to fight it — and provides his prescription for the work that needs [...]
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The Genius of Dogs
If you've ever had a dog, chances are you've wondered what is going on in their head.? Scientists have been thinking about this too, probing the canine mind to figure out just how smart dogs really are.? And [...]
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Assessing Hillary Clinton's legacy
Hillary Clinton officially departs the State Department today after logging nearly 1 million miles and visiting 112 countries during her four years of service to the Obama administration.?? While the public adores her (according to a Wall Street [...]
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Jacob Tomsky's reckless memoir of hotels, hustles, and...
[REBROADCAST] Our guest, JACOB TOMSKY, who has worked in many capacities in hotels for over 10 years, lets us in on how to get the best out of a hotel stay. Do: check in with the proper kit: [...]
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'Pull of Gravity,' a documentary about re-entry after...
Seven hundred thousand inmates are released from U.S. prisons each year. A new documentary film funded by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania wrestles with the question: What happens when they come home? "Pull [...]
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The early causes and lasting impact of the education and...
For their newly-published book, Giving Our Children A Fighting Chance, education researchers DONNA CELANO and SUSAN NEUMAN studied two Philadelphia neighborhoods — one in Chestnut Hill and the other in North Philadelphia — and found that children living [...]
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Immigration reform: reaction and response
Yesterday afternoon, President Obama announced his blueprint for immigration reform in response to a set of principles laid out by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Monday.?? The President's plan calls for a quicker path to citizenship [...]
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Penn's Eve Troutt Powell on 'Tell This in My Memory'
Hour 2 What does the slave trade in North Africa of the late 19th Century have to tell us about the countries whose revolutions and social unrest explode onto our screens today? How does the legacy of the [...]
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The ongoing threat of al-Qaeda
In her Congressional testimony last week regarding the attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, Hillary Clinton said that the recent seizure of an Algerian gas plant and the ongoing conflict in northern Mali were "all part of [...]
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Temple University Symphony Orchestra's Grammy-nominated...
The late photographer, Ansel Adams, and late jazz composer and pianist, Dave Brubeck, were the first in their fields to bring their art to university campuses. Decades later the Temple University Symphony Orchestra is nominated for a Grammy [...]
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An end to the combat ban for women
Last week Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that he was ending the military's ban on women serving in combat positions. "Female service members have faced the reality of combat, proving their willingness to fight and, yes, to die [...]
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Reflections on Haiti: Farewell, Fred Voodoo
It's been three years since Haiti was rocked by the 2010 earthquake that has left the country known for its hardship in an even more dire condition. Journalist AMY WILENTZ looks back on covering Haiti since her 1989 [...]
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Debating mental health legislation after Newtown massacre
The massacre last month at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut galvanized the national conversation on gun control, but that wasn't all. Family stories of shooter Adam Lanza's mental health struggles - on the heels of mental [...]
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Julie Otsuka-The Buddha in the Attic
Novelist JULIE OTSUKA didn't dream of being a writer. She pursued fine art at Yale and Columbia Universities, and it wasn't until she was 30 that she put her paint brush down and concentrated on words as her [...]
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Will Obama's second term change prospects for climate?
In his inaugural speech, President Obama made climate change a central priority of his second term: "We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future [...]
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Ayana Mathis on The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
AYANA MATHIS is living every aspiring writer's fantasy. Your first book gets published and then the good reviews start rolling in. You are even chosen for the Oprah book club guaranteeing good sales.? Ayana Mathis' novel that's getting [...]
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Former Congressman Mickey Edwards on why political...
In his new book, The Parties Versus the People:? How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans, former Republican Congressman MICKEY EDWARDS argues that it is the political parties that are the root of dysfunction in American government.? [...]
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The Mary Wilson, co-founder of the Supremes
Last month marked the 50th anniversary of "Meet the Supremes," the first album featuring the seminal female vocal group. From 1963-1969, the group scored 10 number one hits, including their first number one pop hit in 1964, "Where [...]
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The Inauguration and Obama's next term
Yesterday President Obama was sworn into his ?second term as commander in chief of the United States , something that has only happened to 16 other U.S. Presidents. ?The inaugural ceremony, though full of pomp and pageantry, didn't [...]
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NPR's Andy Carvin, a 'Distant Witness' via social media
The Arab Spring changed history, and changed the way breaking news is reported around the world and who controls the news. NPR social media chief ANDY CARVIN - "the man who tweets revolutions" - offers a unique first-person [...]
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True confessions: Lance Armstrong comes clean
Lance Armstrong confessed last night in an interview with Oprah Winfrey to taking performance-enhancing drugs during his cycling career. Yesterday, the International Olympic Committee stripped Armstrong of his 2000 bronze medal and last fall cycling's governing body, the [...]
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#innovateRT: Sustainable Philadelphia
In the fifth and final hour in our series on Philadelphia Innovators, we look at sustainability in the city and the effort to make Philly the greenest city in America.? We'll find out how close we are to [...]
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William Ecenbarger on the 'Kids for Cash' scandal
[REBROADCAST] Between 2003 and 2008, Luzerne County juvenile court judge Mark Ciavarelli sentenced thousands of children who committed minor offenses to months of incarceration in two private, for-profit juvenile detention centers in Pennsylvania.? The youngsters and their families [...]
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#innovateRT, pt. 4: Open Data Philly & bridging the...
In the fourth part of our #innovateRT series exploring PHILADELPHIA INNOVATORS, we investigate: What is Philadelphia doing to use the Web, apps and digital technology to change its relationship with its citizens? What could open data and the [...]
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Guns & gun laws, after Newtown, CT: US, PA, Philly
In advance of President Obama's much anticipated news conference later this morning outlining his agenda regarding gun and safety regulations in the wake of the horrific massacre in Newtown, Connecticut last month, we check in with three people [...]
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#innovateRT: The Arts Community
"Kids are everything. Poetry is my passion, but PYPM is my purpose," says our guest, poet PERRY "VISION" DIVIRGILIO, referring to his work with the Philly Youth Poetry Movement. The third part of our PHILADELPHIA INNOVATORS series drums, [...]
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The pros and cons of privatizing the lottery
Late Friday afternoon, the Corbett administration announced it had issued a "notice of award" to the UK's Camelot Group to run the Commonwealth's lottery. Camelot, the only bidder on the contract, promised that over its 20-year contract it [...]
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#innovateRT: A conversation with local tech innovators
Talk to local government officials, entrepreneurs and investors and they will tell you that things are happening in Philadelphia's technology sector.?? New tax incentives that benefit start-ups and venture capitalists who are committed to developing and nurturing them [...]
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Sarah Palin: Unlikely Liberal
Since her selection as Republican vice-presidential candidate in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin has become a popular partisan voice in conservative politics – she's a strong Tea Party supporter and a commentator on FoxNews. ?But for people who [...]
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#innovateRT: Three Philly leaders innovating land-use
There are some cool and exciting things happening in Philadelphia: tech start ups and theater groups plus new ways of looking at land use and sustainability. Leading off our weeklong series on PHILADELPHIA INNOVATORS, we're talking about some [...]
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Food myths and fad diets
Every New Year millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, eat better and hit the gym.? Sadly, many of us aren't successful.? But in our quest to be slimmer and fitter, we often seize on headlines that tout [...]
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Journalist Mark Bowden on "The Finish" of Osama bin Laden
[REBROADCAST] Journalist MARK BOWDEN returns to Radio Times to take us inside the rooms where the decisions were made to take down Osama bin Laden. Having access to President Obama, his national security advisors, and high ranking members [...]
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The President's national security team nominations and...
In nominating Senator John Kerry as Secretary of State, Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense and White House counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan to head the CIA, President Obama has signaled a change in the direction of American [...]
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Abolitionist Pennsylvania U.S. Representative, Thaddeus...
If you've seen the recent film, "Lincoln," you may have walked away wanting to know more about the character played by Tommy Lee Jones - outspoken abolitionist Pennsylvania U.S. Representative, Thaddeus Stevens. Our guests will help us understand [...]
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Forty years since Roe v. Wade
Forty years ago this month, the Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade, the historic case that made abortion legal in the United States. The Roe v. Wade decision held that a woman, with her doctor, could have [...]
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Trips, adventures and vacations and how to get there in...
If you're like the staff of Radio Times, you're always planning your next trip or thinking about where you'd? like to go — especially this time of year when we're counting down the days to warmer weather.? There's [...]
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Gov. Corbett's suit vs. the NCAA over Penn...
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett sued the NCAA last week on behalf of the Commonwealth, claiming that the governing body for college sports went overboard in penalizing Penn State in response to the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. In [...]
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A conversation with Philadelphia school chief William...
On Monday, after four months on the job, Philadelphia School Superintendent William Hite, Jr. made public his blueprint for turning around the city's public schools. Its two broad goals are to improve academics on all levels — from [...]
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Violence against women
The six men accused of gang raping and killing a 23-year-old Indian woman were formally charged last week. The horrific attack has set off dozens of protests in India demanding justice for the victim and changes in attitudes [...]
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What's happened to recess?
As school districts cut budgets, worry about litigation and squeeze more academics into limited time, recess has taken a hit in terms of frequency and duration in some schools throughout the country.? Only six states mandate 20 minutes [...]
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Sandy relief bill, the fiscal cliff and GOP politics
The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote today on a $9 billion boost to the federal flood insurance program sucked dry by the catastrophic damage caused by Superstorm Sandy at the end of October. The vote [...]
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Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss: 'A Universe from Nothing'
[REBROADCAST] How did the Universe arise from nothing? And what was there before? ?Those are the kinds of questions that for most of us set our heads spinning — not so for renowned cosmologist LAWRENCE KRAUSS. ?Krauss says [...]
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Marijuana politics in NJ, PA & the U.S.
Last month, JAY LASSITER of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, purchased the Garden State's first legal medical marijuana from Greenleaf Compassion Center in Montclair, New Jersey. Battling HIV for two decades, the advocacy consultant and former BlueJersey.com blogger campaigned [...]
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The end of the Andy Reid era
This past Monday, after 14 years, Andy Reid was fired as head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles.? This season was particularly difficult for Reid and the team beginning with the death of Reid's son during training camp and [...]
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Congress, politics and the fiscal cliff
In the wee hours of January 1, the Senate passed legislation that would raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans — those earning over $400,000, extend unemployment benefits for 99 weeks, and delay for two months $110 billion cuts [...]
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The diary of Emilie Davis
Yesterday marked the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation which legally freed three million slaves. On that day, January 1st, 1863 in Philadelphia, Emilie Davis, a 21year old black woman, wrote in her pocket [...]
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The tradition continues: Oxman, Thompson and Moss-Coane...
After three years of declining audiences, Americans returned to the movies this year — ticket sales were up 5.6 percent.? It was a big year for big budget thrillers with "The Avengers," making $623 million in the U.S., [...]
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New York Times wine critic Eric Asimov
[REBROADCAST] Are you comfortable choosing wine at a restaurant? Do you know a good value when buying a bottle in a store? Can you bring a red, white or bubbly to a party with confident vintage choice? The [...]
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2012's big stories in the Delaware Valley: PA, NJ & DE
We look back at the year's biggest political stories in the three states of the Delaware Valley with a trio of excellent reporters. Joining guest-host Tracey Matisak to discuss the year in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia political news is [...]
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David Quammen on 'Spillover' of animal diseases into...
[REBROADCAST] Avian flu. Ebola. SARS. AIDS. All of us have been exposed, at least in the media, to diseases that have migrated from animal hosts to humans, a phenomenon scientists call "spillover. That's also the name of acclaimed [...]
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Gun violence in cross-hairs, in Philly & U.S.
As many families gathered over the holidays, the issue most hotly debated and discussed was guns and gun violence in the United States. With the Dec. 14 massacre of 20 first-graders and seven adults in Newtown, Connecticut, still [...]
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Remembering South Philadelphia's Jim Croce
[REBROADCAST] South Philadelphia native Jim Croce left an indelible, musical mark in the world of singer-songwriters. When he died in a plane crash at the age of 30 in 1973, he left behind five studio albums and 11 [...]
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Politics, foreign affairs and the year in review
In Washington, lawmakers are still wrangling over plans that would prevent a fiscal crisis in coming days and have put on hold further negotiations until after they take their Christmas break.?? Meanwhile on the city, state and federal [...]
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Garbology: a look at America's trash habit
[REBROADCAST] Americans make a lot of trash, more than any other country in the world. In fact, each of us produces around 7.1 pounds of garbage a day, or roughly 102 tons in a lifetime. And trash turns [...]
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National politics: Guns, fiscal cliff & more
In this week's national news roundup, Marty chats with two Washington D.C.-based journalists about the big two topics dominating the national political discussion this week: the Newtown, CT, massacre and possible gun legislation in response, and the "fiscal [...]
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Debunking doomsday 2012 junk science
[REBROADCAST] Today is December 21st, 2012. And the hype about the "end of the world" has reached a supernova, mostly based on a misinterpretation of the Mayan calendar. Almost a year ago, we reached out to two astronomers [...]
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