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The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Chart: How the Republican tax overhaul would affect you

8 years ago

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell and John Fetterman speak at Philadelphia City Hall Monday.
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Philadelphia

Rendell backs Fetterman campaign for Pa. lieutenant governor

A notable Philadelphia politician is throwing his support behind one of the many challengers to Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Mike Stack.

8 years ago

Former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, center, arrives at federal court in Washington, Friday, Dec. 1, 2017. Court documents show Flynn, an early and vocal supporter on the campaign trail of President Donald Trump whose business dealings and foreign interactions made him a central focus of Mueller's investigation, will admit to lying about his conversations with Russia's ambassador to the United States during the transition period before Trump's inauguration.
National Interest

Can methodical Mueller outpace Trump’s damage?

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's methodical timeline can't compete with Trump's lightning strikes against our institutions, sane governance, and the rule of law.

8 years ago

U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore
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Trump offers full support for embattled Roy Moore as Alabama election nears

8 years ago

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at a rally in Reading, Pa. (Branden Eastwood for WHYY)
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Taxes

Bernie Sanders rallies Reading, Pa. crowd against GOP tax bill

The U.S. Senator from Vermont and former presidential candidate said the bill, which passed the Senate over the weekend, was a blow to lower- and middle-class families.

8 years ago

Donald Trump interviewed by Billy Bush of Access Hollywood at a  Celebrity ApprenticeRed Carpet Event at Trump Tower in January 2015 in New York City
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Gender

Billy Bush: ‘Of course’ it’s Trump’s voice on ‘Access Hollywood’ tape

Bush, who was fired from his job after the tape's release, says the reports that the president is trying to deny the authenticity of the tape, "has hit a raw nerve in me."

8 years ago

Protesters shout their disapproval of the Republican tax bill outside the Senate Budget Committee hearing room on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2017.
The Philadelphia Experiment
Economy
Income Inequality
Taxes

Tax bill should unite American middle class across racial lines

The top 1 percent of Americans use racial and ethnic strife to distract us from the one commonality that should unite us — class.

8 years ago

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Pennsylvania
Philadelphia

Philly councilwoman wants to ban plastic barriers in stop-and-go businesses

Employees at stop-and-gos are routinely shielded in plastic glass for protection. Customers make their purchases through a window in the barrier.

8 years ago

Centre Square in downtown Easton, Pennsylvania. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania
Politics

In eastern Pa. senate districts, incumbents feel safe, but many voters feel out of the loop

On the eastern border of Pennsylvania, north of the Philadelphia suburbs, a cluster of state Senate districts appear — at first glance ...

8 years ago

The 2010 census form included separate questions about race and Hispanic origin. The White House has yet to announce its decision on a proposal that would allow race and ethnicity to be asked in a single, combined question on the 2020 census. (Paul J. Richards/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
National

Trump administration delays decision on race, ethnicity data for census

A spokesperson for OMB could not provide any information about the delay.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania state Sen. Scott Wagner (left) and Laura Ellsworth, a Pittsburgh attorney, at a Pennsylvania Society event. Both are Republicans running for governor. (Dave Davies/WHYY)
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Trash talk makes noise at Pa. Society

Hundreds of Pennsylvania politicians and hangers-on trek to New York City for a somewhat scaled-down Pennsylvania Society weekend.

8 years ago

Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to President Trump, arrives for his plea hearing this week in federal court in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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National

The Russia Investigations: After Flynn plea deal, where does Mueller aim next?

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8 years ago

This Oct. 26, 2017 photo shows Dominick Solazzo, president of the Midway Beach Condominium Association on the beach in front of the 25-foot-tall dunes his members built. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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Big dunes? So what? Beach can be seized for new dune project

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8 years ago

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National
Taxes

Senate Republicans pass massive tax overhaul

If the GOP can reconcile differences in the tax bills passed by House and Senate, Trump could have his wish for signing the $1.4 trillion tax overhaul into law by Christmas.

8 years ago

If the White House approves a proposal to change how the government collects race and ethnicity data, white people in the U.S. may be asked to check off boxes about their ethnic background. But on this 2010 Census form, answering
NPR
Immigration

2020 Census may ask white people to get specific about their ethnicity

Anyone who checks off the "white" box could also mark boxes for groups such as "German," "Irish" and "Polish" or write in another option.

8 years ago

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