The Philadelphia school funding crisis June 19
Guests:  Tom Ferrick and Kate Shaw "A building with teachers and principals, but no other supports? That's not a picture of a school to me." That's how Philadelphia school superintendent William Hite described the dire funding situation facing [...]

The New Yorker's George Packer June 19
GUEST: GEORGE PACKER The New Yorker staff reporter GEORGE PACKER examines the economic and cultural health of the United States’ last 40 years through the stories of several, varied Americans. He writes about the cost of Freedom, of [...]

Reflections on Haiti: Farewell, Fred Voodoo June 14
HR 2 GUEST: AMY WILENTZ [REBROADCAST] It’s been three and a half 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 [...]

The legacy of toxic dumping in Toms River June 12
Guest: Dan Fagin When chemical companies came to the New Jersey town of Toms River in the 1950s, the community saw good job prospects and a boom for the economy.  In fact, over the next few decades, Toms [...]

Constitutional scholar Jeffrey Rosen June 10
GUEST: JEFFREY ROSEN A lot of constitutional issues have been in the news lately including revelations about government data mining, surveillance of media leaks, subpoenas of AP telephone records, the Supreme Court's decision to allow police to use [...]

"The World is a Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village" June 10
Guest:  Anna Badkhen The small, remote western Afghanistan village of Oqa  is known for its beautiful carpets. Woven painstakingly and meticulously by hand, a carpet takes about seven months to make and its sale to a dealer for [...]

Frank Lautenberg's legacy; Eric Holder and the leak investigation June 7
Guests: Tom Moran, Daniel Klaidman New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg died on Monday of complications from viral pneumonia.  He was 89 years old.   At his funeral Wednesday, family, friends and colleagues paid tribute to the man who rose [...]

Philadelphia building collapse; Lead Wars June 6
Guests: Elizabeth Fiedler, David Rosner, Gerald Markowitz We start out this hour getting an update on the Philadelphia building collapse from WHYY's ELIZABETH FIEDLER which killed six people and injured 14 yesterday.  The four-story building at 22nd and [...]

Murder and Mayhem: The Kaboni Savage Trial with George Anastasia June 5
GUEST: GEORGE ANASTASIA This Monday the former North Philly cocaine kingpin Kaboni Savage was sentenced to death by legal injection for 12 murders and a witness retaliation conviction. One of the most violent details that came out of [...]

Travel writer MATT GROSS' tales of losing his way around the world May 31
GUEST: MATT GROSS Travel writer MATT GROSS writes he never explicitly sought out eating strange food – the spiders, porcupine and Rocky Mountain oysters he tried were “logical consequences” of his career. The former New York Times “Frugal [...]

Ag-Gag laws May 28
Guests: Gary Haluska, Emily Meredith and Cody Carlson In states across the country, legislators have passed or are considering passing laws that make it illegal to covertly photograph or make videotapes and audiotapes at livestock farms. Some laws even [...]

Inside Hidden City Philadelphia May 28
GUESTS: THADDEUS SQUIRE, LEE TUSMAN & PETER WOODALL The creative team behind Hidden City Philadelphia wants to change the way Philadelphians look at their city. For the last two years the architectural heritage organization has been scouring the [...]

"Fire and Forget" and the value of war stories May 27
Guests:  Matt Gallagher and Roy Scranton [REBROADCAST] 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 [...]

Reaction to Philadelphia's primary election returns May 22
GUESTS: DAVE DAVIES & LYNN MARKS Despite a predicted low voter turn-out, Pennsylvania’s municipal primary election has chosen party candidates for many local offices throughout the state’s 67 counties. On today’s Radio Times we’ll focus on yesterday’s poll [...]

Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill on Dirty Wars May 21
GUEST: JEREMY SCAHILL Much of the Obama Administration’s national security policy relies on the work of  the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and the CIA’s Special Activities Division. According to our guest JEREMY SCAHILL, National Security Correspondent for [...]

National Politics Round-Up May 20
GUESTS: ROBERT COSTA & JAMES B. PETERSON Many issues are consuming Congress, the White House and the nation these days with the continual unraveling of the details of the attack on the American diplomatic facility in Benghazi; the [...]

A reality check on the Benghazi and IRS investigations May 17
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 [...]

Hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay — ethics and the law May 8
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 [...]

What do you say to a sick friend? April 30
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 [...]

Revisiting King's Letter from Birmingham Jail. April 24
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 [...]

What drives radicalization; then media coverage of the Boston bombings April 22
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 [...]

"Fire and Forget" and the value of war stories April 18
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 [...]

Continuing coverage of the bombings in Boston April 17
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 [...]

A conversation with Michael Smerconish; then Bill Adair on the future of journalism April 12
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 [...]

Debating gun regulation April 11
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 [...]

Jackie Robinson and the civil rights movement April 10
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 [...]

The problem with Pennsylvania's system of halfway houses for paroled inmates April 9
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 [...]

Douglas Rushkoff's Present Shock March 27
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 [...]

The health and stability of our financial system March 26
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 [...]

Online Comments March 25
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 [...]

Salt, Sugar and Fat March 21
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 [...]

Assessing the media coverage of the war in Iraq March 20
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 [...]

Cell phone video & public-police relationship March 7
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 [...]

New Jersey and Pennsylvania politics deconstructed March 1
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 [...]

What is AVI, and what will it mean for Philadelphia? February 25
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 [...]

85th Academy Awards preview February 22
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 [...]

Addiction: tightening the gap between research and practice February 19
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 [...]

The secrets of happy families with Bruce Feiler February 19
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 [...]

Cybersecurity and the growing threats February 14
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 [...]

Black Media in the 21st Century February 11
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 [...]

Reflections on Haiti: Farewell, Fred Voodoo January 28
GUEST: AMY WILENTZ 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 [...]

Former Congressman Mickey Edwards on why political parties are the real problem with government January 23
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.  [...]

NPR's Andy Carvin, a 'Distant Witness' via social media January 22
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 [...]

William Ecenbarger on the 'Kids for Cash' scandal January 17
[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 [...]

The pros and cons of privatizing the lottery January 15
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 [...]

#innovateRT: A conversation with local tech innovators January 15
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 [...]

Journalist Mark Bowden on "The Finish" of Osama bin Laden January 11
[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 [...]

The President's national security team nominations and the future of foreign policy January 10
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 [...]

Gun violence in cross-hairs, in Philly & U.S. December 27
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 [...]

Politics, foreign affairs and the year in review December 26
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 [...]

The risks and rewards of older parenthood December 13
Among the many changes in American families over the past few decades is the increasing number of parents who are having children later in life.  While the average first time parent in the U.S. is in her twenties, [...]

Philly legal shenanigans: DA's cash machine & Traffic Court ticket-fixing December 6
On today’s Radio Times, we look at two recent investigative reports raising questions about two different parts of the legal system in Philadelphia. In the first half of the hour, ISAIAH THOMPSON, who just left the City Paper [...]

John Baer's years on the front lines of Pennsylvania politics November 28
Harrisburg native and Philadelphia Daily News veteran reporter and columnist JOHN BAER comes in to discuss his irreverent observations on Pennsylvania politics from Governor  Shapp to Governor Corbett. In between these administrations, we’ll hear about how close Baer [...]

William Ecenbarger on the 'Kids for Cash' scandal November 26
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 were [...]

The Petraeus affair & its ramifications November 14
Hour 1 A stunning scandal has triggered the resignation of the most important military leader of modern U.S. history, David Petraeus, and has his successor of commander of the U.S. and NATO forces at war in Afghanistan, Gen. [...]

Healing, governing and leading after Election 2012 November 13
What became evident in the wake of the hard-fought, often heated 2012 election is that the United States is a deeply divided union — politically, philosophically, economically and racially.  In recent days, the candidates and members of both [...]

Facts, lies and the 2012 election November 9
Hour 1 In a presidential election where each candidate accused the other of playing lose with the facts, in the end each campaign, to some degree, was guilty of misrepresenting the truth.    As a result, what we saw [...]

The 2012 election– looking back and forward November 7
Hour 1 Who won?  By how big a margin?  Did voters turn out?  Did the swing states swing?  By all accounts, the 2012 presidential election was the most expensive and among the most contentious in history.  The race [...]

The option of palliative care November 1
Hour 2 Many patients with serious illness and their families struggle with making end-of life decisions. Is there etiquette for discussing the ethics of breaking bad news to family members? What are the ethical guidelines doctors must consider [...]

Hurricane Sandy, Day 2: Jersey Shore, Philly water, Delaware October 30
Hour 2 Our coverage of Hurricane Sandy continues in this hour of Radio Times. We start with a live update from WHYY reporter TOM MacDONALD from the Jersey Shore, where he spent the morning touring the devastation, including [...]

Jeffrey Toobin on the White House, the U.S. Supreme Court and Citizen United October 26
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] Using his insider reporting and analyses of the legal issues New Yorker staff writer and senior legal analyst at CNN, JEFFREY TOOBIN, looks at the relationship between President Obama’s White House and Chief Justice John [...]

Journalist Mark Bowden on "The Finish" of Osama bin Laden October 25
Hour 2 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 [...]

The Cuban Missile Crisis 50 Years Later October 22
Hour 1 Fifty years tonight, in a nationally televised speech, President John Kennedy informed the American public that the world was on the brink of a nuclear war.  A week before, the President was briefed by the State [...]

The Supreme Court and the future of affirmative action October 9
Hour 1 On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Fisher v. University of Texas, the first affirmative action case since 2003 when the justices ruled that the University of Michigan Law School's could consider a [...]

The first presidential debate analyzed October 4
HOUR 1 The fact-checkers checked the facts, the spinners spun and the candidates are back on the campaign trail after last night's first presidential debate in Denver, Colorado.  Did we learn anything new about how they would lead [...]

Do debates really matter? October 3
Hour 1 The stage is set, the  candidates have been prepped and their campaign advisers have been busy lowering expectations for the outcome of tonight's presidential debate.   This evening, for the first time, voters will have a chance [...]

Joan Walsh asks "What's the Matter with White People?" September 27
Hour Two Salon columnist JOAN WALSH has written a book looking at the parallel narratives of how the standard of living has changed drastically since the 1970s. She sees two arguments of the bankruptcy of America: one side [...]

The complex relationship between the U.S., Iran and Israel September 24
Hour 1 As the U.N. General Assembly meets this week, the debate and rhetoric over Iran's nuclear weapons capability and how to deal with it has intensified.  Despite stern warnings and banking and oil sanctions, Iran has refused [...]

Journalist Steve Coll looks at ExxonMobil's private empire and American power September 21
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] According to our guest, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist STEVE COLL, ExxonMobil makes over $450 billion a year, the size of Norway’s GDP and about 3 percent of the U.S. GDP, positioning it as the largest [...]

Jeffrey Toobin on the White House, the U.S. Supreme Court and Citizen United September 20
Hour 2 Using his insider reporting and analyses of the legal issues New Yorker staff writer and senior legal analyst at CNN, JEFFREY TOOBIN, looks at the relationship between President Obama’s White House and Chief Justice John Roberts’ [...]

Mitt Romney and the 47 percent September 19
Hour 1 In a video secretly recorded last May at a private fundraiser, Mitt Romney told donors that nearly half of all Americans support the President because they rely on government entitlements.   He went on to say that [...]

Non-traditional paths to higher education September 18
Hour 2 If you attended college, did you enroll directly out of high school? Or are you like one of the 45 percent of students our guest, writer and educator, MIKE ROSE, says took longer to find their [...]

The Protests in North Africa and the Middle East September 14
Hour 1 The violent protests in the Arab world sparked by an anti-Islam video are spreading. On Tuesday armed militias attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya killing four Americans including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Anti-American protesters also tried [...]

Joe Frazier — his life, career, and the City of Brotherly Love September 13
Hour 1 Boxing legend Joe Frazier moved to Philadelphia in 1958 from rural South Carolina as a 14-year old boy and lived here the rest of his life. Despite being considered the greatest fighter in Philadelphia sports history, [...]

Did the 2009 $787 billion stimulus stop a second Great Depression? September 11
A few months after taking office, President Obama signed the $ 787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which gave most Americans a tax cut, sent billions of dollars to the states and invested almost half of the [...]

Has pop music changed? September 10
What is pop music and how does it change throughout the decades? The top ten songs on Itunes and Billboard may not reflect what you listen to and your grandparents listened to, but millions of people are still [...]

Who foots the bill for the political conventions; then, checking the fact-checkers September 6
Hour 1 After the speeches are over, the parties have ended, the banners come down, and the delegates head home, the Democratic and Republican parties will have spent well over $100 million on their national conventions.  So who [...]

Errol Morris on 'The Wilderness of Error' in Jeffrey MacDonald case September 5
Hour 2 Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker ERROL MORRIS gained fame 25 years ago when his third film, “The Thin Blue Line,” helped prove that a man convicted of murder was innocent. With his new book, “A Wilderness of Error: [...]

Host of Studio 360's Kurt Andersen on 60s culture September 3
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] A prominent law professor in her 60s looks back on her youth as she’s writing a tell-all memoir about her romping, spy novel-obsessed 1960s youth and left-wing college activism. As she’s about to reveal the [...]

Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake with writer Anna Quindlen August 31
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] Writer ANNA QUINDLEN is on the verge of turning 60 and she says that one of the best part of getting older is that she just doesn't care what people think about her anymore.   She's [...]

Amanda Bennett ponders 'The Cost of Hope' August 29
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] “Doing nothing is not something I do well,” says our guest, AMANDA BENNETT, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and executive editor of projects and investigations at Bloomberg, in her new book, “The Cost of Hope: The Story [...]

Update: The drought, PA's voting laws, and Philadelphia's state test cheating scandal August 21
Hour 1 We get updates on three news stories we've been following.   We'll start off talking about this year’s drought, the worst drought in U.S. history since the 1950's with writer CHARLES FISHMAN.  In his recent New York [...]

Presidential politics: The campaigns & how Paul Ryan has changed the race August 20
Hour 1 It's been a hot summer on the presidential campaign trail. Lately it's the heated rhetoric that is defining the race, as accusations and charges fly back and forth between the candidates and their running mates. Democrats [...]

Syria's civil war: An update August 9
Hour 1 The conflict in Syria has claimed more than 17,000 lives by some estimates. What started as a peaceful protest to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime almost a year and a half ago has turned into a bloody [...]

Checking the facts of this political season with FactCheck.org August 7
Hour 2 Election Day is more than three months away and the presidential race is devolving into the sort of campaign silliness that leads to bitter and trivial debate while failing to inform the public.  Today on Radio [...]

Chris Hayes: Can hard work & pluck be corrupted? July 30
Hour 2 Are those who worked their way to top doing a better job than those who were born into it? CHRIS HAYES, The Nation’s editor-at-large and host of MSNBC’s “UP with Chris Hayes,” feels America is broken [...]

Rajiv Chandrasekaran on how the 2009 surge didn't restore "Little America" July 24
Hour 2 Americans built canals in Afghanistan’s Helmand River Valley, as a hopeful, transformative project during the Cold-War, to bring the country into the 20th century through irrigation, a Western-style school and co-ed club house. Years later this [...]

Mexico's post-election politics & violent cartels July 19
Hour 1 On July 1st, Mexican voters returned the PRI – the Institutional Revolutionary Party that controlled the Mexican presidency for 71 years until 2000 – to power by electing its telegenic candidate, former Governor Enrique Pena Nieto. [...]

Responding to gun violence in Philadelphia & Wilmington July 18
Hour 1 This summer’s heat wave has brought the feared spike in homicides, especially murders by gun. The spasm of violence is both shocking and distressingly familiar, and Radio Times joins the voices searching for new and effective [...]

The Great Divergence July 16
Hour 1 Is the United States a country run by the rich, for the rich? If so, will there be an adjustment of extreme inequality in our lifetime?  TIMOTHY NOAH, senior editor at The New Republic, looks at [...]

The life of a New Yorker receptionist/Scranton's financial trouble July 16
Hour 2 JANET GROTH had big dreams when she moved to New York in 1957.  Fresh from the Midwest, she landed a big interview at The New Yorker and was eager to begin a career as a writer.  [...]

The Freeh report's damning conclusions about Penn State's Sandusky scandal July 13
Hour 1 Last month, former Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was convicted of 45 counts of child sexual abuse, for a reign of terror in his home, in his car and in the locker room of [...]

What's in a calorie? July 12
Hour 2 What should we be eating to maintain a healthy diet? Low carb? Low fat? It’s been 10 years since science journalist GARY TAUBES’ New York Times Magazine cover story about eating more fat and less carbohydrates, [...]

Tax havens: Mitt Romney and the state of Delaware July 11
Hour 1 A new Vanity Fair article investigates Mitt Romney’s use of offshore and foreign tax havens and is drawing more attention to the Republican presidential candidate’s finances. In the August issue, journalist NICHOLAS SHAXSON tracks Romney’s accounts [...]

The statute of limitations in sex abuse cases July 10
Hour 1 A victim of sexual abuse in New Jersey has to report the incident two years from the day they turn 18, or else the statute of limitations runs out, and the abuser can’t be prosecuted. In [...]

The science of exercise July 4
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] What do you do for exercise? Go for a run or a walk with the dog?  How about a game of tennis or golf?  Maybe you garden, do yoga or a Zumba class?  Most of [...]

American philosophy 101 with Carlin Romano July 3
Hour 2 According to the 19th century French intellectual Alexis de Toqueville, "in no other country in the civilized world is less attention paid to philosophy than in the United States." That's not true today, says our guest [...]

Making sense of Philadelphia City Council's session June 29
Hour 2 Three voices from WHYY’s Philadelphia reporting staff join Marty in studio to discuss the City Council session that wrapped up yesterday, especially the showdown over Mayor Nutter’s Actual Value Initiative, the controversial tax overhaul that raised [...]

Radio Times Pennsylvania Political Roundtable June 28
Hour 2 The Pennsylvania state budget’s deadline is tomorrow and the cuts proposed for the $27.3 billion limit, set by Governor Tom Corbett, are controversial. So far, state university funding is untouched, and a block grant for public [...]

Bob Ingle & Michael Symons on Chris Christie's rise to power June 27
Hour 1 Chris Christie, New Jersey’s bombastic and headline-grabbing governor, has dominated the news cycle in the Garden State since he ousted his Democratic predecessor and declared war on New Jersey’s public-sector unions. His name continues to surface [...]