Archives: Episodes
Historian Joan DeJean attributes the comfort and casualness of American homes to the introduction of the sofa, running water and toilets ...
Air Date: October 5, 2009
Inside the Clinton White House with writer Taylor Branch
Author and historian TAYLOR BRANCH recorded 79 oral histories with President Bill Clinton during his eight years in office. The conversat ...
Air Date: October 5, 2009
What Starbucks tells us about America
Chances are, wherever you are listening to this show, you’re not far from a Starbucks. And the chances are almost as good that our ...
Air Date: October 2, 2009
Pennsylvania state budget and politics
As the months-overdue Pennsylvania budget process enters its endgame, we look at the taxes, the process, the lobbying under way, the cuts ...
Air Date: October 2, 2009
Every Sunday, millions of Americans gather for what is to many a sacred ritual – football on TV. And the friendly man guiding this ...
Air Date: October 1, 2009
How Pennsauken, NJ, became one of the most successfully integrated community in America
In the mid-nineties, faced with white flight and declining property values, residents of Pennsauken NJ set out to create a stable, vital ...
Air Date: October 1, 2009
Can mothers and daughters be too close?
LINDA PERLMAN GORDON and SUSAN MORRIS SHAFFER talk about their new book about mother and daughter relationships called, “Too Close ...
Air Date: September 30, 2009
Negotiations between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council begin on Thursday in Geneva. In the wake of last week ...
Air Date: September 30, 2009
National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans
This October the Department of Veterans Affairs will open the National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans in University City. Its purp ...
Air Date: September 29, 2009
Penn infectious disease specialist NEIL FISHMAN talks with Tracey Matisak about swine flu – what we know and don’t know and w ...
Air Date: September 29, 2009
Messenger space craft gets close to Mercury
The Messenger space craft gets 142 miles from Mercury. It left earth a few years ago, but orbited around earth first, then Venus and fina ...
Air Date: September 28, 2009
Author Mike Sielski and his new book Fading Echoes
In his new book, “Fading Echoes,” sports columnist MIKE SIELSKI tells the story of two local high school football players who ...
Air Date: September 28, 2009
The Pennsylvania Senate campaign
We take the pulse of the Pennsylvania Senate campaign, and what it is telling us, and has told us, about the national and PA political cl ...
Air Date: September 28, 2009
Why we lie and is it ever okay?
According to our first guest, psychologist ROBERT FELDMAN, when two people are first getting acquainted, each of them lies an average of ...
Air Date: September 25, 2009
In opinion polls of likely voters, New Jersey governor Jon Corzine has been trailing his Republican challenger Chris Christie for months. ...
Air Date: September 25, 2009