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[REBROADCAST] Former Philadelphia columnist STEVE LOPEZ on his book, “The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Re ...

What accounts for fluctuations in the stock market? What makes it go up one day and down the next? Our guest, psychiatrist and economist, ...

Yesterday, President Obama signed an executive order to lift the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. We discuss the ...

The American lottery could have as many characteristics as its states. The 42 states that have a lottery use the money differently – ...

We recently had a near brush with disaster as an asteroid passed 40,000 miles from earth. Well, it wasn’t really that close to disa ...

On March 9th, 1959 the Barbie doll was introduced at a New York Toy Fair. Since then she’s had many careers, outfits, hair and skin ...

Last week, the federal government announced it was giving AIG an additional $30 billion dollars to save the international insurance giant ...

Philadelphia writer, TOM COYNE, comes in to talk about his third book about life and golf, “A Course Called Ireland: A Long Walk in ...

A discussion of the week’s political news with BURDETT LOOMIS, Professor of Political Science at University of Kansas and JULIAN ZE ...

Obama’s stimulus package includes tax credits and incentives to make Americans homes more energy efficient. We take a look at some ...

In his speech to congress last week, President Obama proposed to set aside $634 billion over 10 years to finance health care reform that ...

In his new book, American Rust, writer PHILIPP MEYER tells the story of two friends who live in a dying steel town in southwestern Pennsy ...

Last month, Philadelphia school superintendent ARLENE ACKERMAN released Imagine 2014, the school district’s vision for public educa ...

Astrophysicist NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON is Director of the Hayden Planetarium and the Rose Center of Earth and Space at the American Museum of ...

Marty hosts MAYOR MICHAEL NUTTER in this hour of Radio Times. We’ll talk about the hard choices he is facing as the City faces a $1 ...