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Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon & Tuppence Middleton talk with Patrick Stoner about the great Edison/Westinghouse electricity ...

Open office plans are supposed to foster collaboration and innovation but most workers hate them. We'll explore how office design impacts productivity, culture and health.

Philly's no longer a two-party town. History was made Tuesday night when Working Families Party candidate Kendra Brooks won a seat on City Council.

The deadly yellow fever epidemic of 1793 rocked Philadelphia, then the capitol of a young United States. Here's how it gave rise to public health as we know it.

Facebook announced it won't fact check political advertising while Twitter announced its ban on all political advertising. What role do these platforms play in our democracy?

City Council is expected to vote next week on a bill to guarantee lawyers for low-income renters. Could it help fix Philly's eviction crisis?

In the 1950’s, the CIA began a secret mind control program called MK-ULTRA and they hired chemist Sidney Gottlieb who was given free rein to experiment on unwitting subjects.

A country club membership, California wines, a dog urine detector — all paid for with campaign cash. Why are Pennsylvania candidates allowed to spend donors' money this way?

An International Space Station Resupply Mission is scheduled to launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spacep ...

This week: What is Marcys Law, the ballot question in question, the races to look at in Tuesday's Philadelphia elections, and a new biography of Harriet Tubman.

Composer Nick DiBerardino’s works from his graduation recital as well as a glance into his pioneering three-part lecture recitals S ...

December 30, 2011 never happened in Samoa. The island nation in the South Pacific skipped this day, to move ahead into a different time z ...

Robert De Niro talks with Patrick Stoner about Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman”. ...

If you have an affinity for oddities, then you oughta know about Oddporium ...

Historian Richard Bell tells the story of the "reverse underground railroad" and of five black boys who were kidnapped 1825 Philadelphia and sold into slavery in the south.