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Seasonal Affective Disorder has millions of Americans feeling depressed this winter. A cure for Leukemia comes from a Penn scientist. And, the Free library has a new director.

Conservative groups are pushing to pull books on issues of race, gender, sexuality, LGTBQ topics, and history. What's behind this rise in book challenges and what's at risk?

On this episode of You Oughta Know, we’ll explain how a new app called Too Good To Go is fighting food waste.

From Amazon to Angie’s List, Google, Facebook, and Yelp, we live in a world driven by feedback. In the best of circumstances, honest cr ...

Transgender athletes in elite competitions are raising questions about fairness in sports, inclusivity, rights for trans athletes and what a "level playing field" looks like.

The artist colony of Arden, DE: experience the people and architecture that make it unique.

Infrastructure crumbles in Pennsylvania and the nation. Where should the spending go to fix bridges and roads and how long will they take to mend?

Jeremy Irons talks with Patrick Stoner about playing Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister accused of appeasing Hitler. ...

We talk Pennsylvania politics this hour - the challenge to mail-in voting and redistricting maps, false Electoral College certifications and the Senate and governor races.

For the past two decades, Raymond Gant, 65, has been a fixer, clean up man, gap-filler, whip-cracker and resource connector for some of t ...

Defendants present their case in PA's landmark school funding lawsuit. And, a Delaware bill giving terminally ill residents the right to medical aid in dying gains momentum.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement on Thursday. We'll discuss his legacy, President Biden's possible nominees, and the future of the court.

This week on You Oughta Know, WHYY health expert Nina Feldman weighs in on COVID-19 rapid tests and clears up some common miscon ...

Sleep — we all need it, but most people aren’t getting enough of it. Ideally, we spend about a third of our lives asleep. When we’r ...

It's not easy making new friends as adults. We'll look at friendships: why they matter, the challenges of forming them in adulthood, and how to nurture the ones we have.