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We get an update and reactions to the ongoing corruption trial of former State Senator Vincent Fumo from Philadelphia Inquirer columnist ...

What does Obama’s election say about race relations in this country. Does it signal in a new post-racial America or will it actuall ...

WHYY-FM’s Dave Heller and astronomer Derrick Pitts celebrate Skytalk’s 18th season on the air by doing what they do best̷ ...

JEROLD WINAKUR is an internist and geriatrician in San Antonio, Texas for over thirty years. In 2005, Dr. Winakur’s essay, “W ...

An analysis of the failure of our government institutions. While the size of our government continues to grow, we have created a system i ...

Joseph Priestly was an 18th century British chemist, theologian and political theorist who emigrated to America and advised the founding ...

Two weeks of fighting in Gaza Strip, an area twice the size of Washington DC and the world’s most densely populated territory has t ...

Philadelphia-based rock band Huffamoose is playing their first gig in ten years at the World Café Live tonight. Musicians CRAIG ELKINS a ...

MATTHEW ALEXANDER, author of “How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogator Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Dead ...

There are roughly a billion motor vehicles in the world. Within twenty years, the number will likely double to two billion. We’ll t ...

As Congress headed back to work yesterday, the Senate still had several seats up in the air. Add to that a worsening economic situation, ...

If you could name the one word that defines the year 2009 what would it be? Later this week, the American Dialect Society will meet in Sa ...

Last week, publishers of a long-awaited Holocaust memoir “The Angel at the Fence” announced that the author had fabricated pa ...

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Can’t wait another second? Neither can WHYY-FM’s Dave Heller and astronomer Derrick Pitts. A Leap Second was added at 7 p.m. ...