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[REBROADCAST] In his recent book, “American Rust,” writer PHILIPP MEYER tells the story of two friends who live in a dying st ...

Former Philadelphia Director of Housing and Community Development and Senior Consultant at the Fels Institute of Government, JOHN KROMER, ...

This month 400 years ago the astronomer and inventor, Galileo, was presenting his new fangled device, the telescope, to the Venetian cour ...

[REBROADCAST] Fifteen year old Benji Cooper, one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan, spends every summer at ...

In 2001, business reporter ERIN ARVEDLUND wrote an article for the financial paper, “Barrons,” questioning Bernard MadoffR ...

[REBROADCAST] Local coffee roaster TODD CARMICHAEL broke the world record for solo walk across Antarctica to the South Pole last winter. ...

Efforts to change and improve our national health care system and the way we pay for it go as far back to the Teddy Roosevelt administrat ...

Vogue has set the standard for fashion and fashion magazines for decades and each fall designers and editors scramble to create and see w ...

We devote the hour to the life and work of Senator Edward Kennedy. Our guests include historians ROBERT DALLEK and JULIAN ZELLIZER. Then, ...

The Phillies are hot – this week. Ryan Howard is hitting home runs and the pitchers are clicking. The big question is do they have ...

Guest host Dave Davies talks with reporters covering the Pennsylvania state budget crisis. They include JOHN MICEK of the Allentown Morni ...

After months of getting nowhere on a public option for health care reform, some lawmakers are suggesting that health insurance cooperativ ...

We get an update on the legal fight to allow Vegas-style sports betting in Delaware. Marty talks to two reporters who have been following ...

Could there be another theory of how life got started on earth? Perhaps life came here on a comet. This theory has never been discounted ...

In 44 U.S. states birth records are sealed and such laws have been the subject of debate for years. Those opposed to making birth records ...