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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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Politics & Policy

President Donald Trump signs an executive order on health care in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
National Interest

Trump fans help sabotage their own health coverage

There's virtually no public support for Trump's piecemeal sabotage, but as always, he won't suffer political damage unless there's some kind of red-state grassroots revolt.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks about tax reform during an event at the Harrisburg International Airport, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, in Middletown, Pa.
Speak Easy
Business
Economy
Taxes

The Trump-GOP tax reform proposal doesn’t match the rhetoric

Trump-GOP plan makes an unfair system even worse, rewarding the corporate elite and rich while leaving small businesses and the overall economy as losers.

8 years ago

Jeff Rosen of the National Constitution Center (left) and U.S. Sen. John McCain
History
National
Pennsylvania

NCC's Jeffrey Rosen on McCain receiving the Liberty Medal award

Tonight at the National Constitution Center, the 2017 Liberty Medal will be given to U.S. Sen. John McCain for a lifetime of sacrifice and service to our country.

8 years ago

Listen 6:03
Radio Times
International
Medicine

Girls in the Boy Scouts / Iran deal / Undermining the ACA

Guests: Kate Tuttle, Dan De Luce, Mary Agnes Carey We begin our show today talking about the Boy Scouts and their ...

Air Date: October 16, 2017

Listen 49:00
Former Vice President Al Gore, right, stumps for New Jersey's Democratic candidate for governor, Phil Murphy. (Shai Ben-Yaacov/WHYY)
New Jersey
Technology

Gore stumps for Murphy in Princeton, just weeks before Election Day

Gore is among a number of prominent Democratic leaders called in by the campaign, adding some star power to the homestretch of an otherwise lackluster race.

8 years ago

Pennsylvania's oddly-shaped 7th Congressional district is often cited as an extreme example of gerrymandering.(via govtrack.us)
Law
Pennsylvania

Lawsuit challenging GOP maps to get quick hearing

A new lawsuit aimed at reshaping Pennsylvania's congressional districts before the 2018 midterm election is speeding toward trial.

8 years ago

The capitol building in Harrisburg
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Law
Pennsylvania

Bill would overhaul Pennsylvania’s regulatory process

A bill under consideration in the state House changes the way Pennsylvania enacts new regulations on everything from education, to health, and the environment.

8 years ago

Perry at a table with a mic
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Pennsylvania

Energy Secretary Rick Perry faces tough sell on coal and nuke subsidies

Perry continues to defend his plan to have ratepayers subsidize coal and nuclear production in the face of greater competition from cheap natural gas and growing renewables.

8 years ago

A woman in a berka, a bearded man, and two children; American and Canadian
International

Family freed returns to Canada, says 1 child killed

Former hostage Joshua Boyle said upon arriving back in Canada that the Haqqani network in Afghanistan had killed his infant daughter and raped his American wife.

8 years ago

The United States Capitol building against a blue sky
NewsWorks Tonight
National

Republicans rate congressional GOP’s job at lowest level in Gallup poll history

NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller sits down for his weekly conversation with Gallup's Frank Newport to talk about trends in U.S. opinion.

8 years ago

Listen 5:20
Screen grab from ad
Immigration
New Jersey

Guadagno lambasted over N.J. campaign ad attacking Murphy’s ‘sanctuary’ stance

The ad shows Democrat Phil Murphy saying he would have "the back" of unauthorized immigrants — and convicted killers.

8 years ago

First
Business
Delaware
Economy

First Person: Rich Heffron

If business is the engine that drives the economy then you'll want to hear what our First Person has to say this week.

8 years ago

With only an elbow visible, a person experiencing homelessness sleeps in a door way at a Center City Church (Tom MacDonald, WHYY)
Homelessness
Philadelphia
Public Spaces

Philly celebrates home run: City finds permanent housing for 300 in single year

There are still hundreds of homeless people in Philadelphia, but the city is celebrating finding housing for 300 in the past year.

8 years ago

A woman in a berka, a bearded man, and two children; American and Canadian
International

Parents of freed Afghanistan hostage angry at son-in-law

"Taking your pregnant wife to a very dangerous place, to me, and the kind of person I am, is unconscionable," Caitlan Coleman's father, Jim, told ABC News.

8 years ago

Two candidates, both seated at table, with microphone; Guadagno in blue suit (left) Murphy in black (right)
Business
New Jersey

Murphy maintains big funding lead over Guadagno in N.J. governor’s race

Democrat Phil Murphy has raised more than three times as much as Republican Kim Guadagno in New Jersey’s race for governor. Murp ...

8 years ago

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