
Politics & Policy
Democrat’s write-in victory for Pa. House challenged in court
Lawyers for the Green Party and the Republican Party (yes, you read that right) are joining in a lawsuit asking a federal judge to throw ...
8 years ago
ListenA Scranton native’s take on Trump’s commitment to coal
Has President Donald Trump ever heard of Scranton blackfoot? As I watched him posing with coal miners and repeating easy bring-back-jobs ...
8 years ago
Dems block Gorsuch, Senate heads for rules change
Senate Democrats have blocked President Donald Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court. The Senate voted 55-45 to successfully ...
8 years ago
Legal battle over LGBTQ workplace protections moving closer to the Supreme Court
The chances are a bit higher today that the U.S. Supreme Court will consider the question whether gays should be protected from discrimin ...
8 years ago
Web app gets your message to Congress with 18th century technology — the U.S. mail
Twitter might be President Donald Trump’s favorite way to connect with commoners, but when citizens want their leaders’ ear ...
8 years ago
On ‘Radio Times:’ Former FBI special agent on President Trump’s affiliation with Russia
The past two weeks of investigations into the Trump/Russia probe have caused much confusion — between the bizarre activity of Hou ...
8 years ago
Homeland Security chief backtracks on splitting families
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly says parents and children caught crossing the Mexican border illegally won’t be separated un ...
8 years ago
Disinformation and the Trump/Russia probe
Guests: Masha Gessen, Clint Watts The investigations into the Trump campaign and their alleged ties to Russia has ...
Air Date: April 5, 2017
Listen 00:49:27On ‘Radio Times:’ Inquirer’s Trudy Rubin on America’s support for an independent Kurdistan
Kurds, an ethnic group living in parts of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria, have long played a unique role in the long-standing conflicts in ...
8 years ago
Guests: Trudy Rubin, Brendan O’Leary The turmoil in the Middle East is multi-faceted, with shifting, and some ...
Air Date: April 4, 2017
Listen 00:49:28Public officials owe their constituents transparency on social media
In the past, reaching an elected official took some formality or a press credential. Today, all it takes is a well-crafted twee ...
8 years ago
Toomey says he’d back Senate rule change to confirm Gorsuch
Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania says he’d support changing Senate rules to bypass Democratic opposition and confirm ...
8 years ago
Talk of previous high court nominee, ‘nuclear option’ as vote on Gorsuch nears
If you’ve tuned in to the debate over the Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination, you may be surprised by how many times another per ...
8 years ago
ListenOn ‘Radio Times’: A look at Philly, Pa. corruption
District Attorney Seth Williams, former state treasurer Rob McCord, and former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane have all been ...
8 years ago