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Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.

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Politics & Policy

Lawmakers held a bicameral hearing to discuss how to respond to RAND's report. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Higher Education
Pennsylvania

Pa. lawmakers divided over how to fix state universities

Fundamental differences remain.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe in a file photo from August 2017. (AP, file)
Keystone Crossroads
Pennsylvania

Pa. GOP guts another independent redistricting commission bill

For the second time this month, a Pennsylvania state House panel has stripped a bill that would have established an independent redistricting commission.

8 years ago

A parked limousine burns as riot police clear the street during a demonstration after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, in downtown Washington. Protesters registered their rage against the new president Friday in a chaotic confrontation with police who used pepper spray and stun grenades in a melee just blocks from Donald Trump's inaugural parade route. Scores were arrested for trashing property and attacking officers.  (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
Speak Easy
Income Inequality

As America punishes its people, is U.S. democracy on its deathbed?

Democracy is eroding as people lose faith in an open society and a country that doesn't work for them, and a government that doesn't meet their needs or serve their interests.

8 years ago

Steel coils sit on wagons leaving a factory in Duisburg, Germany on March 2. U.S. President Trump Monday decided to hold off on imposing most steel and aluminum tariffs until at least June 1
NPR
Economy
International

Trump administration delays most tariffs on steel, aluminum

The Trump administration has decided to hold off on imposing most of its tariffs on imported steel and aluminum until at least June 1.

8 years ago

Congressional candidate Michele Lawrence accepts the endorsement of the Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity.
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Philly-area black clergy group backs three for Congress

The Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinty endorsed Dwight Evans, Michele Lawrence, and Thaddeus Kirkland for Congress.

8 years ago

President-elect Donald Trump, left, and Kanye West pose for a picture in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York in 2016. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Music
Performing Arts
Politics

In embracing Trump, Kanye West sells out on so many levels

Donald Trump is the last guy who gets to tell black America who’s doing a service to our community.

8 years ago

An NJ Transit train approaches the New Brunswick train station. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

NJ Transit running behind schedule on implementing positive train control

Only 11 percent of the hardware required for the safety system was installed on New Jersey Transit trains by the end of last year.

8 years ago

Delaware Gov. John Carney signs the Beau Biden Gun Violence Prevention Act at the Biden Institute on the University of Delaware's Newark campus. (Paul Parmelee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Delaware
Public Safety

Five years later, Beau Biden gun bill finally becomes law

Legislation aimed at keeping guns from those with mental illness is now law in Delaware, five years after it was proposed by former Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden.

8 years ago

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In March, former Philadelphia Deputy Mayor Rich Lazer (second from right) launches his congressional race at a South Philadelphia playground. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic

Outside spending for Congressional candidate tops $600K

Independent expenditures for Congressional candidate Rich Lazer are now over $600K, with electricians Local 98 so far the only-known donor

8 years ago

The White House can be seen through a fence

Watch: President Trump and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari press conference

President Trump is meeting with his Nigerian counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari, today at the White House. The two leaders are discussing security and economic issues.

8 years ago

Pa. Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)

Pa. lawmaker may be off the hook for $29,000 in legal fees over redistricting

A federal judge has put a hold on the order he issued after deeming the GOP lawmaker’s actions in the case frivolous.

8 years ago

Chaplain of the House of Representatives Father Patrick J. Conroy, upper left, speaks with French President Emmanuel Macron, bottom enter, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
National Interest

Paul Ryan, one foot out the door, fires a priest who prays for the poor

Anyone nurturing a faint hope that Paul Ryan would turn compassionate in his waning hours of power has been jolted back to reality by his mimicking of King Henry II of England

8 years ago

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un receives a military briefing
PBS
Military

Seoul: North Korea’s Kim vows to shut nuke test site in May

8 years ago

A conference room in the Farm Show complex became a showroom for a selection of potential new voting machines on Thursday. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Elections
Pennsylvania

New voting machines go on display in Pa.; counties search for ways to pay

The new options vary, but all would produce a paper trail — making election results easier to verify.

8 years ago

Jake Tapper is CNN's chief Washington correspondent and the host of The Lead and State of the Union. His novel, The Hellfire Club, is set in 1954 Washington, D.C. (Corey Nickols/Getty Images for Pizza Hut)
NPR
Media
National

CNN’s Jake Tapper on McCarthyism, Trump, and the ‘Jar Jar Binks principle’

8 years ago

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