Hidden fees January 31
How corporate America is making billions of dollars using hidden fees. We'll talk with BOB SULLIVAN author of Gotcha Capitalism: How Hidden Fees Rip You Off Every Day and What You Can Do About It. Sullivan explains how [...]

Plastic Bags January 31
What should we do about plastic bags? Recycle them? Ban them? Produce biodegradable alternatives? Use paper? Guest host, Dave Davies discusses these options with DARBY HOOVER, Senior Resource Specialist with the Natural Resources Defense Council and ROBERT LILIENFELD, [...]

Walkable cities January 30
Pedestrian friendly urban planning. For the past century American cities have been designed with the car in mind. But what if planners made people the top priority, where walk-ability was the number one priority. We'll talk about this [...]

Florida Primary results January 30
Reaction to the Florida primary results. We'll talk with PETER BROWN who runs the Quinnipiac Florida poll about how this morning's results compared with expectations leading up to the primary. Also we'll hear from ALAN ABRAMOWITZ a political [...]

John Sayles January 29
Meet independent film director, screenwriter and novelist, JOHN SAYLES. Sayles' films include "Lone Star," "Passion Fish," "Eight Men Out," "Matewan" and his most recent film "Honeydripper."Listen to the mp3

Improving US relations abroad. January 29
Improving US relations abroad. We talk with former Secretary of State MADELEINE ALBRIGHT and author of Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership. Prior to her cabinet post, Albright was the U.S. [...]

Will Rebate checks be enough to ward off a recession? January 28
Will Rebate checks be enough to ward off a recession? Congress and the White House are working on a 150 Billion dollar economic stimulus package that would provide a most working Americans a $600 check. It's hoped that [...]

Gaza border breach January 28
Last week, Hamas destroyed parts of Egypt's border with Gaza allowing people to enter Egypt to buy goods and fuel. We talk about what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the implications for Palestinian, Egyptian, and Israeli [...]

The emergence of successful car sharing programs. January 25
The growing popularity of membership driven car sharing programs. In Philadelphia, PhillyCarShare started in 2002 with just two cars, and today they have more than 400 strategically placed around the metro area. We'll talk with CLAYTON LANE a [...]

Analysis of the upcoming presidential primaries in South Carolina and Florida January 25
Analysis of the upcoming presidential primaries in South Carolina and Florida. Our guests include SCOTT HUFFMON, University of Winthrop political science professor, DAVID MARK, senior editor of Politico and JOHN MERCURIO, executive editor of The Hotline. Listen to [...]

Making your home more energy efficient. January 24
Making your home more energy efficient. We'll hear from two green building experts on how small changes to your home can save you money and help the environment. Our guests are ROB FLEMING an Associate Professor of Architecture [...]

Using the free market to reduce world poverty January 24
Using the free market to reduce world poverty. We'll talk with MUHAMMAD YUNUS, the founder and Managing Director of the Grameen Bank, which pioneered the use of micro-credit lending. He and his bank shared the 2006 Nobel Peace [...]

Is the City of Philadelphia's Deferred Retirement Option Program being misused? January 23
Is the City of Philadelphia's Deferred Retirement Option Program being misused? DROP was originally intended to help the City to retain its most experienced workers, but in the past year elected officials have begun signing up. We'll talk [...]

Election 2008: Comparing candidates' healthcare plans January 23
We compare the health care plans of the Presidential candidates. Our guest is KAREN DAVIS, President of the Commonwealth Fund. Her organization released a report detailing how our healthcare system could change depending on who is elected President. [...]

Neil Shubin January 22
Paleontologist and professor of anatomy NEIL SHUBIN tells us about his book "Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body." Listen to the mp3

Bush's trip to the Middle East January 22
Analysis of President Bush's trip to the Middle East and U.S. policy in the region. We talk with GREGORY GAUSE, Associate Professor of Political Science and director of the Middle East Studies Program at the University of Vermont.Listen [...]

Twins (Rebroadcast) January 21
(Rebroadcast)The story of identical twins separated at childhood for a secret nature vs. nurture experiment. The children, two girls, were adopted into families who were unaware of the nature of the study and were also never told that [...]

Missing Class (Rebroadcast) January 21
(Rebroadcast) The near poor are defined as those 57 million Americans with household incomes of between $20,000-$40,000 per year. Sociologist KATHERINE NEWMAN says that because government policies address the needs of the poor and politicians seek the support [...]

Table Tennis January 18
Last week, the Olympic Table Tennis Trials took place at Drexel University in Philadelphia. We talk about this sport, what it takes to compete and why the game is slower to catch on in the U.S. Our guests [...]

Will race become a major issue in the Presidential election? January 18
Weekly discussion on American Politics: Today will race become an issue in the 2008 Presidential Election? On Saturday South Carolina holds its republican primary. Democrats follow with a SC Primary Saturday 1/26. Will Barack Obama easily win black [...]

The future of the music industry. January 17
The future of the music industry. 2007 was a bad year for record labels with CD sales dropping 15% over the year. But this month, three of the major music labels took a dramatic step in an effort [...]

Journalist Roy Gutman January 17
In his new book, "How We Missed the Story: Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban and the Hijacking of Afghanistan," journalist ROY GUTMAN talks about the events prior to 9/11 and how our foreign policy and the media failed [...]

How evolution explains our complicated relationship with money and business January 16
In his new book The Mind of the Market author MICHAEL SHERMER uses evolution and evolutionary society to explain our complex relationship to money and business. Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and the Executive Director [...]

Kenya Update January 16
Kenya continues to recover from unrest following its recent presidential election. We get an update on the situation, learn more about Kenya's internal politics and ethnic groups, and discuss the implications for US foreign policy. Our guests are [...]

The debate over milk labeling in Pennsylvania January 15
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture recently ruled that dairies that do not inject their cattle with synthetic growth hormone can no longer label their milk as hormone-free. The decision, which has been put on hold until the beginning [...]

What reporters should ask the candidates with Todd Gitlin. January 15
TODD GITLIN has written three articles for the Columbia Journalism review in which he lists eight questions reporters should ask the presidential candidates. So far he has tackled Obama, Romney and Huckabee. We talk with him about the [...]

What's new in technology, gadgets and electronics January 14
There was something for everyone at last week's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas where some 20,000 new gadgets – large and small– were unveiled. We'll get the scoop from two technology reporters — LAURA SYDELL, NPR Digital [...]

Anthony Lewis on the First Amendment January 14
Pulitzer Prize winning columnist and author ANTHONY LEWIS' new book is titled "Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment." He joins Marty to talk about Americans' most basic liberties – the freedom [...]

A conversation with author GERALDINE BROOKS January 11
Pulitzer Prize winning author GERALDINE BROOKS visits Marty to talk about her new novel, "People of the Book," which tells the story of the journey of a rare illuminated Hebrew manuscript the Sarajevo Haggadah. Brooks previous work of [...]

Our weekly round up on national politics. January 11
Our weekly round up on national politics. We'll put the Truth-O-Meter to the 2008 Presidential candidates. We'll talk with BILL ADAIR the St Petersburg times Washington bureau chief and editor politifact.com which fact checks campaign ads, and candidate [...]

In Defense of Food with Michael Pollan January 10
In his new book, "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, author MICHAEL POLLAN argues that "instead of eating food, we're consuming 'edible foodlike substances,'no longer the products of nature but of food science." His advice for a [...]

Are tougher voter id laws constitutional? January 10
Are tougher voter id laws constitutional? We'll hear about a case before the US Supreme Court over and Indiana Voter ID law that has implications for all states. We'll hear from ALLISON HAYWARD an Assistant Professor of Law [...]

Dave Eggers and What is the What January 9
A conversation with writer DAVE EGGERS, about his book, What is the What, which is the 2008 "one book, one Philadelphia" selection. It is the fictionalized story of the life of Valentino Achak Deng, one of the Sudanese [...]

Analysis of the NH Primary results. January 9
Analysis of the NH Primary results. We'll first check in with ANDREW SMITH a New Hampshire pollster with the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. His organization does the NH polling for CNN. Then we'll hear a liberal/conservative [...]

An update on the U.S. economy January 8
An update on the economy. A dismal jobs report, oil peaking at $100 a barrel, rising consumer prices and an ongoing crisis in the housing market signal some concerns about the U.S. economy. We check in with economist [...]

Hollywood Writers Strike update January 8
Golden Globes cancelled? The latest on the Hollywood writers strike including reaction to last night's return to television of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report without the use of their writers. We'll hear from MICHAEL WINSHIP the [...]

Medical experiments at Holmesberg Prison from 1951-1974 January 7
From 1951 to 1974, thousands of medical experiments were conducted by University of Pennsylvania dermatologist Albert Kligman on inmates at Philadelphia's Holmesberg Prison. In his new book, Sentenced to Science: One Black Man's Story of Imprisonment in America, [...]

Latest on Pakistan and Iraq. January 7
Latest on Pakistan and Iraq. We'll catch up with TRUDY RUBIN the Foreign Affairs columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. She just returned from a four-week trip to both countries. She was in Pakistan and scheduled to interviewer former [...]

Election 2008: On to New Hampshire. January 4
Election 2008: On to New Hampshire. We talk RICHARD WOLFFE the Senior White House correspondent for Newsweek who is in NH following the campaigns and with WAYNE LESPERANCE, associate professor of political science at New England College in [...]

Analysis of the Iowa Caucuses. January 4
National Politics Roundtable – Analysis of the Iowa Caucuses. The 2008 Presidential election is underway with the first state weighing in, we'll talk with SUSAN MILLIGAN the National Political Correspondent for The Boston Globe who is in Iowa [...]

The situation in Kenya January 3
We discuss the volatile situation in Kenya following last week's election with CHRIS FOMUNYOH of the National Democratic Institute and FRANK HOLMQUIST professor at Hampshire College.Listen to the mp3

What will Philadelphia Mayor John Street's legacy be? January 3
What will Philadelphia Mayor John Street's legacy be? His last day in office is Monday, Jan 7th when Michael Nutter will be sworn in as Mayor. Will he only be remembered for the FBI bug found in his [...]

Sadness vs depression January 2
Is depression being over-diagnosed? Are we denying ourselves the normal experience of sadness? Marty discusses these questions with JEROME WAKEFIELD, Professor of Social Work and of Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine. [...]

Congressional preview. January 2
Congressional preview. We talk with Republican Congressman MIKE CASTLE from Delaware and Democratic Representative RUSH HOLT from New Jersey about issues Congress is likely to face in 2008. Both considered moderates for their parties, Castle is co-founder of [...]

A rebroadcast of our conversation with SCOTT WEIDENSAUL January 1
Marty talks with SCOTT WEIDENSAUL author of several works on natural history including, "Living on the Wind" which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His newest book is "Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding." [...]

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