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Our greatest actors transport us through the magic of fiction, one short story at a time. Sometimes funny. Always moving. Selected Shorts connects you to the world with a rich diversity of voices from literature, film, theater, and comedy. Hosted by Meg Wolitzer.

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Opinion & Essay

National Interest

Michael Brown had pot in his blood! Reefer madness!

  So it turns out, via a ...

12 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

Pa. ethics panel clears Street on son’s legal work

In a split decision, the Pennsylvania Ethics Commission has cleared former Philadelphia Mayor John Street of conflict of interest charges ...

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 Texas Gov. Rick Perry makes a statement in Austin on Saturday concerning the indictment on charges of coercion of a public servant and abuse of his official capacity. Perry is the first Texas governor since 1917 to be indicted. (AP Photo/Michael Thomas)
National Interest

Is Rick Perry more than a ham sandwich?

You just never know when politics is going to throw you a curveball. There was a joke going around that either Chris Christie or Scott Wa ...

12 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

Burritos and political polls – who do you trust?

If you believe data reveals truths about everything, and you love a good burrito, you have to head over the Five Thirty Eight blog ...

12 years ago

 Protester Janelle Pittman holds her 6-year-old daughter, Kat, as police in riot gear stand guard in Ferguson, Mo. on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. On Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, a white police officer fatally shot Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in the St. Louis suburb. (Jeff Roberson/AP Photo)
National Interest

Rand Paul is right about racial injustice and militarized cops

Like a stopped clock twice a day, Rand Paul occasionally gets it right. So let’s give him props for speaking out yesterday against ...

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

DNC + Philly: What’s in it for the city?

12 years ago

 Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton (then secretary of state) are shown arriving in Myanmar on Air Force One in late 2012. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
National Interest

Hillary and Obama hugged it out, for what it’s worth

Like a boulder dropped in a lake, Hillary Clinton’s dissing of President Obama is still creating serious ripples. So let’s st ...

12 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

Wolf tax proposal generates heat in governor’s race

In his latest campaign ad (above) Pennsylvania Democratic candidate Tom Wolf speaks directly into the camera. “Have you seen ...

12 years ago

Listen
 In this Nov. 6, 2012 file photo, U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn., greets supporters on election night in Winchester, Tenn. At left is his wife, Amy. A little more than a week after the election, the voters of Tennessee's 4th District got proof that their congressmen, an anti-abortion physician, had misled them repeatedly about having affairs with patients, encouraging a lover to get an abortion and using a gun to intimidate his ex-wife during an argument. (Mark Humphrey/AP Photo)
National Interest

Scott DesJarlais: A family values fraud gets a pass

It’s amazing sometimes what politicians get away with. Voters routinely say that they loathe fraudulence, that they abhor i ...

12 years ago

 Pennsylvania’s Human Relations Commission sits in Chester, Pa., on May 4, 1964 as it starts a probe into demonstrations and alleged segregation in public schools. African American and other groups have charged de facto segregation and demonstrations resulted in mass arrests and injury to scores. (AP Photo/Warren M. Winterbottom)
The Philadelphia Experiment

What happens when students of color become the majority

When American public schools reconvene this fall, they will do so in the shadow of a historical demographic shift: White students will no ...

12 years ago

National Interest

Hillary’s declaration of independence from Obama

  It was inevitable that Hillary Clinton would begin to distance herself from the Obama brand. Hence her willingness to criti ...

12 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Spotted: Bike Clouds, Green Zones

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 Alex Kryger (left) and Chris Melohn in 'The Haunted Host,' part of Quince Productions' GayFest!(Photo courtesy of John Donges)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: The reappearance of ‘The Haunted Host’

It’s obvious that “The Haunted Host” – now 50 years old, and among the first openly gay-themed plays staged in what w ...

12 years ago

Dave Davies: Off Mic

The late Robin Williams and more this week on Fresh Air

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 Around the seance table, left to right: Thomas Grube, Isabella Knight, Julian Elfer, Jennifer Harmon and Michelle Eugene, in Cape May Stage's production of 'Blithe Spirit.' (Photo courtesy of Aleksey Photography.)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: Conjuring up ‘Blithe Spirit’

Ghosts are nothing new to Cape May – you can even take walking or trolley tours to hear about their alleged Victorian and post-Victoria ...

12 years ago

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