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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.
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Each week, Tiny Desk Radio hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present three Tiny Desk concerts and share how these memorable (and sometimes viral) moments came together. You'll hear world-class musicians from the worlds of pop, jazz, classical, Americana, hip-hop, R&B and more stripping down their sound for a concert series that's unlike anything else on the internet — or the radio.

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Politics & Policy

Baltimore Ravens players kneel down during the playing of the U.S. national anthem before an NFL football game against the Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley Stadium in London, Sunday Sept. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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Trump’s feud with activist athletes

Guests: Jesse Washington, Rich Lowry, Richard Allen Smith This Sunday, millions of Americans will be tuning in to ...

Air Date: September 29, 2017

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George Orwell and Donald Trump
National Interest

Laugh of the week: Trump dumps tweets down the memory hole

As each exhaustive week wheezes to an end, It's always tough to single out the unfit president's most pitiable, contemptible, or laughable act.

8 years ago

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New Jersey may offer $5 billion in tax breaks to lure Amazon HQ2

New Jersey state lawmakers from both parties joined a unified push to lure Amazon’s new corporate headquarters to New Jersey.

8 years ago

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Delaware state Sen. Margaret Rose Henry announces retirement

The first African American woman elected to the Delaware Senate says she will not seek reelection in 2018.

8 years ago

Juanita Kidd Stout Center for Criminal Justice. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Weighing decades of good works with inconsolable loss, Philly judge resentences juvenile lifer

Handcuffed, Andre Martin clutched a single sheet of paper and began to weep.

8 years ago

Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, stops to say the Pledge of Allegiance as he walks around greeting supporters before his election party, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
National Interest

Meet Roy Moore, the new face of Republican extremism

Thank you, Alabama Republicans! Thank you for choosing a Senate candidate whose reactionary ravings and paranoid fictions make Donald Trump look semi-sane.

8 years ago

Councilman Al Taubenberger said some property owners have become homeless through the urban squatting scam. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
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Philly Council takes aim at urban squatting scam

Philadelphia City Council is working to close a legal loophole that prevents evictions — even when a house is rented out by someone who doesn't own the place.

8 years ago

Tim Evans, the research director at New Jersey Future, says towns and cities will have to offer more diverse housing to attract millennials.
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Housing
New Jersey

Diverse housing options proposed to keep millennials in N.J.

A land-use policy organization is recommending that New Jersey towns make some changes so millennials don't continue to migrate to other states.

8 years ago

Red pencil and calculator
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Republicans rekindle their love of budget deficits

Remember when Republicans hated budget deficits? When they railed nonstop against red ink and pined for fiscal conservatism? That was just their mantra during the Obama years.

8 years ago

President Richard Nixon sits in his White House office after delivering a nationwide television address in Washington, April 27, 1972. Nixon discussed events surrounding his 'Vietnamization' program, saying he is withdrawing another 20,000 American troops from Vietnam by July 1. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, file)
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International
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Don’t overgeneralize the failures in Vietnam

To dismiss the Vietnam War as a total failure for the United States or a warning against any intervention may prevent us from seeing solutions to today's problems.

8 years ago

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Delaware gets an 'F' for its financial health

A nonprofit that says it promotes transparent government financial information has given Delaware an F grade for its financial health.

8 years ago

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Real Estate
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Property assessment reform bill clears Pennsylvania House

After nearly a decade of work, the state task force on overhauling the commonwealth's property valuation system is starting off with relatively simple legislation.

8 years ago

Residents at La Perla community in Old San Juan comfort one another as the community recovers from Hurricane Maria, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Sept. 25, 2017. The island territory of more than 3 million U.S. citizens is reeling in the devastating wake of Hurricane Maria. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)
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National

Maria’s aftermath in Puerto Rico

Air Date: September 27, 2017

Listen 49:35
Former Alabama Chief Justice and U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore, stops to say the Pledge of Allegiance as he walks around greeting supporters before his election party, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, in Montgomery, Ala.
National Interest
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Meet Roy Moore, the new face of Republican extremism

Thank you, Alabama Republicans, for choosing a Senate candidate whose reactionary ravings and paranoid fictions make Donald Trump look semi-sane.

8 years ago

Homeless veteran James Thomas, 62, who was sleeping along the Miami River, talks with officials from the Veteran's Administration during the Point In Time Homeless Census, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, in Miami.
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Far from battlefield, soldiers forced to continue fighting

Most of us recall when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan began, but in the American post-war narrative, many recently retired troops have become marginalized by our government.

8 years ago

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