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6′ 3″ author ARIANNE COHEN comes in to talk about her new book, “The Tall Book.” ...
Air Date: September 17, 2009
The state of poverty in America
Who is poor? Has poverty changed over time? We talk with TIMOTHY SMEEDING, Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the Unive ...
Air Date: September 17, 2009
What’s there to watch on TV this fall?
Leno, Ellen on American Idol and Diane Sawyer anchoring network news. What will you be watching. We talk about all this and more with Fre ...
Air Date: September 16, 2009
It’s been a year since the collapse of Lehman Brothers which put the world economy into a dangerous tailspin. Economist SIMON JOHNS ...
Air Date: September 16, 2009
The high cost of college, especially college textbooks
You don’t need a degree in economics, or a kid in college, to know that the cost of higher education in the United States is going ...
Air Date: September 15, 2009
Sam Tanenhaus on the conservative movement
In his new book, The Death of Conservatism, author SAM TANENHAUS argues that the nation is better off when liberals are challenged by ...
Air Date: September 15, 2009
A repaired Hubble telescope is almost like new, which means it has new capabilities to take images that are much improved. Now we can der ...
Air Date: September 14, 2009
Duffy’s Cut: An early Irish-American tragedy
In 1832, 57 Irish Catholic laborers died about 30 miles from Philadelphia in a place that has come to be called “Duffy’s Cut. ...
Air Date: September 14, 2009
The financial and psychological challenges of being unemployed
According to the most recent Department of Labor statistics, there are nearly six workers available for every job opening in the United S ...
Air Date: September 14, 2009
Radio Times checks in with the annual Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe with monologist MIKE DAISEY. His new piece is cal ...
Air Date: September 11, 2009
Congress has retaken Capitol Hill after a summer recess full of raucous town meetings and heated rhetoric. But health care, the focus of ...
Air Date: September 11, 2009
Novelist Nicholson Baker on his new book The Anthologist
Novelist NICHOLSON BAKER joins Marty to talk about his new book, “The Anthologist.” It’s a story about a middle-aged po ...
Air Date: September 10, 2009
Public attitudes toward health care
Wednesday night, at a joint session of Congress, President Obama made his case for new health care legislation. We’ll talk about pu ...
Air Date: September 10, 2009
Listen 51:46The U.S. Open tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows
The U.S. Open tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows, NY is in its second week. Roger Federer will be going for a record sixth straight Op ...
Air Date: September 9, 2009
Delaware U.S. Senator Ted Kaufman
U.S. Senator TED KAUFMAN spent his Labor Day weekend in Afghanistan, and will explain to us how he thinks a strong Iraqi security force b ...
Air Date: September 9, 2009