Archives: Episodes

Is America’s infrastructure beginning to fall apart? We’ll talk with ROBERT PUENTES a Fellow at the Brooking Institution̵ ...

In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s March Madness time. We’re in the throes of the NCAA basketball tournament – tha ...

Tibet update. What’s happening in Tibet? Does the world care? And Why does China need Tibet? We’ll talk with THOMAS LAIRD who ...

JAMES McBRIDE’s new book, Song Yet Sung, is the story of an escaped female runaway slave in 1850 and her perilous flight through th ...

It’s been a busy few weeks for the Federal Reserve Board. First it offered $200 billion dollars to investment banks to help keep t ...

We talk about what it takes to speak “with” and speak “without” an accent. Our guests are actress AMY WALKER, ac ...

04 ½ weeks to go till the PA Primary. In our weekly discussion of national politics we catch up on Election 2008. It was a busy week wit ...

An announcement by NY Gov. David Patterson that he has had several affairs during his 16-year marriage got us to thinking about what it t ...

Obama, his pastor, and the speech. Did the speech work? Did he break new ground in race relations? Is black liberation theology radical? ...

The Iraq War five years later. Part Two. We’ll hear from LORRAINE ALI a Senior Writer for Newsweek magazine whose relatives fled Ir ...

The Iraq War five-years later. Part One. We’ll start our conversation with FEISAL ISTRABADI who served as Iraq’s deputy perma ...

Is Chinese food in America, really Chinese food? We’ll talk with JENNIFER 8 LEE, who always wondered about this. An American-born d ...

Assessing impact of Vince Fumo on Pennsylvania politics. Last week, the political powerhouse state senator announced he would not seek re ...

Lessons from life. We talk with DAN GOTTLIEB host of WHYY’s Voices in the Family and author of the new book Learning From the Heart ...

The CDC reported last week that one in four teenage girls ages 14-19 has a sexually transmitted disease. We talk about the alarming rat ...