Archives: Episodes
Analysis of the West Virginia Primary and the future prospects of Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign. We’ll first touch ...
Air Date: May 14, 2008
In 1858, Democratic U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas and Republican Illinois legislator Abraham Lincoln debated face to face seven times. Th ...
Air Date: May 13, 2008
Why isn’t more relief aid getting to the Cyclone victims in Myanmar? We’ll get the latest on this from STEPHANIE BUNKER who i ...
Air Date: May 13, 2008
Iraq native reflects on the war
Philadelphian reflects on his native country Iraq. We talk with BASSAM SEBTI who served as an interpreter and reporter in Iraq for The Wa ...
Air Date: May 12, 2008
Why are most Americans feeling poorer? We’ll talk with JARED BERNSTEIN author of Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? And Other Unsol ...
Air Date: May 12, 2008
Philadelphia casino update. A ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that is expected any day now could clear the last major hurdle for ...
Air Date: May 9, 2008
Our weekly discussion on the Presidential Election. Are we at a tipping point? We’ll talk about this and all the week’s event ...
Air Date: May 9, 2008
Paula Giddings on Ida B. Wells
Historian Paula Giddings joins us to talk about the subject of her new book – Ida B. Wells, anti-lynching crusader, journalist and ...
Air Date: May 8, 2008
Eric Lichtblau and the Bush Administration’s attempt to reconstruct American Justice
On December 16, 2005, The New York Times published a Pulitzer-prize winning front-page story uncovering the Bush administration’s s ...
Air Date: May 8, 2008
We look at race in the post-civil rights era and talk about the manifestations of racial distrust in American society today with JOHN L.J ...
Air Date: May 7, 2008
Indiana and North Carolina Primary results
Analysis of the Indiana and North Carolina primary results. We’ll first get reaction to the Indiana numbers from JOHN KETZENBERGER ...
Air Date: May 7, 2008
Should Philadelphia enlist clergy to track down fugitives?We’ll talk about the City’s new program Peaceful Surrender to ...
Air Date: May 6, 2008
Did Texas overreach its legal authority when it raided a Polygamist community and removed the children? We’ll first get an update f ...
Air Date: May 6, 2008
More and more companies are popping up offering to test your genes for diseases. It is what they call “personalized medicine” ...
Air Date: May 5, 2008
Guantanamo Bay Detainees and their trials
After six years, enemy combatants being held at Guantanamo Bay are still awaiting trial. We talk with Slate columnist DAHLIA LITHWICK ab ...
Air Date: May 5, 2008