Politics & Policy
Biden says having a female vice president would be ‘great’
Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden says it would be "great" to have a female vice president, but he won't say whether he'd pick Sen. Kamala Harris.
5 years ago
Booker answers questions about fundraiser with Essex County executive
Demonstrators outside an event called Booker a hypocrite for accepting contributions from the leader of a county which runs an immigrant detention center.
5 years ago
Trump speaks at ‘Salute to America’ for 4th of July
Some have raised concern about the cost for taxpayers, as well as that the event could politicize a nonpartisan day meant to be about American unity.
5 years ago
How the U.S. citizenship oath came to be what it is today
If you are born in the U.S., citizenship is a birthright. But if you immigrate to this country, the work of the citizenship process culminates in the reciting of an oath.
5 years ago
N.J. will create statewide foreclosure database in latest attempt to combat crisis
Home foreclosure is still a big problem in New Jersey. A new database could help.
5 years ago
Pa. Democrats launching plan to save General Assistance, again
A small cash assistance program for certain poor Pennsylvanians is slated to end at the start of August — after the GOP-controlled legislature voted to repeal it.
5 years ago
DOJ still looking to add census citizenship question, official tells court
Amid tweets by Trump that he still wants the 2020 census to ask about citizenship, an official says the Justice Department has been told to find a way to make it happen.
5 years ago
Wilmington City Council must fill another vacancy after Williams resigns
Wilmington City Council meetings were fraught with acrimony and a law was changed before a vacancy was filled in March. Now another member has resigned.
5 years ago
U.S. Rep. Dean recounts ‘chilling’ and ‘inhumane’ conditions at Texas, Fla. detention centers
WHYY Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn interviews U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean about her visit to America’s only privately-run detention facility for child migrants.
5 years ago
Listen 8:50Fouling the Fourth: Tanks but no tanks, Trump
It takes a craven kind of genius to desecrate the Fourth of July, to turn a traditionally nonpartisan festival into a militarist MAGA rally with pseudo-Moscow trappings.
5 years ago
Pa. GOP: Fetterman’s presiding powers in the Senate can be revoked
Republicans sent a letter to Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman Tuesday saying if he violates the chamber's rules again, they plan to try to remove him from presiding.
5 years ago
We discuss Vice President Joe Biden's record on busing and desegregation in schools and whether the policy has achieved racial integration in schools across the country.
Air Date: July 3, 2019 10:00 am
Listen 48:58Booker unveils immigration plan relying on executive orders
Cory Booker has rolled out an immigration agenda composed of changes he could make without relying on Congress.
5 years ago
With every step Trump takes it takes us further from who America is
President Trump should be trying to end the horrible conditions in the migrant detention cams here instead of cozying up to dictators.
5 years ago
Pa. Auditor General Eugene DePasquale is running for Congress, and here’s why
“I don’t think our country’s working right. And the challenge of trying to fix that is something I think I’m more up to now."
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