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Last week, the federal governments ran ads in newspapers across the country which rated hospitals on two measures of quality of care. The ...

The Pentagon fire on 9/11. One story that has gone largely unnoticed is that the attack on the Pentagon created a huge fire and created u ...

Pulitzer Prize winning author GERALDINE BROOKS talks with Marty about her new novel, “People of the Book,” which tells the st ...

In 1858, Democratic U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas and Republican Illinois legislator Abraham Lincoln debated face to face seven times. Th ...

With Christoph Eschenbach completing his tenure as music director of The Philadelphia Orchestra we talk with Inquirer writers PETER DOBRI ...

We continue our weekly Friday discussion on the Presidential election. Today, The Hillary Clinton campaign… is it over? We’ll ...

Philadelphia theater production spotlight. We talk with BILL IRWIN who stars in The Philadelphia Theater Company’s production of Th ...

A four-year college education is an expensive proposition for students and their families. Is an undergraduate degree worth it? We talk ...

Is now the best time to reassess Philadelphia home values? The plan has stalled as the agency charged with the assessments the Board of R ...

How emotion affects how we vote. We’ll talk with DREW WESTEN author of The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fat ...

Increasingly, people are making decisions to take public transportation, plant a vegetable garden, or try to reduce electricity use. Is t ...

We talk with HOWARD FINEMAN about his new book, “The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Coun ...

In his new book, “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, author MICHAEL POLLAN argues that “instead of eating food, ...

Is our country’s approach to terrorism making us safer or giving us a false sense of security? We talk with MICHAEL SHEEHAN, author ...

Why do people refuse to admit to their own mistakes. We’ll talk with CAROL TAVRIS co-author of Mistakes Were Made (But No by Me): W ...