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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Terry Gross hosts this multi-award-winning daily interview and features program.

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Opinion & Essay

Mayor Jim Kenney is pictured here at City Hall in Philadelphia, in this Thursday, June 16, 2016 file photo. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Speak Easy
Education

Mayor Kenney abandons Philadelphia kids

The mayor insists much of the money will go toward pre-K and Rebuild after the Big Soda lobby is defeated in court. Then why not create a reserve fund earmarked for pre-K?

7 years ago

In this Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004, file photo, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.'s headquarters stands in Hunt Valley, Md. President Trump is jumping to the defense of the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which is under fire following the rapid spread of a video showing anchors at its stations across the country reading a script criticizing
National Interest
Politics & Policy

The hostages at Trump TV: ‘We have lost respect for our jobs’

It reads like a hostage letter penned in a basement cell and smuggled to the public via carrier pigeon. “We are journalists ...

7 years ago

Kiera Smalls
Speak Easy
Community

Serving all of Philly’s startup community means including more voices at the table

New executive director for Philly Startup Leaders, the networking organization and community resource for Philadelphia’s tech-startup community, dives into work.

7 years ago

Cast of 'V to X'
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

‘V to X’ at the Arden an education in the inhumanity, inequity of mass incarceration

This brutal look at a life spent languishing in a privately operated "correctional facility" comes from theater artist Kash Goins.

7 years ago

Rebecca Dallet
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Wisconsin’s voters churn the burgeoning blue wave

We have a choice today. We could parse Cadet Bone Spurs’ faux-macho decision to militarize the Mexican border by sending the Nation ...

7 years ago

Winston Churchill
Speak Easy
Arts & Entertainment

Churchill had a tendency to tipple, but the ‘British Bulldog’ was no boozehound

'The Darkest Hour seems to show the prime minister with a whisky in every scene, but as he famously said, 'I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.'

7 years ago

Tye Sheridan, from left, Olivia Cooke, Philip Zhao, and Win Morisaki
Speak Easy
Arts & Entertainment

Blockbuster ‘Ready Player One’ a natural next step for Spielberg’s relentless career

Spielberg’s success has made him such a quintessential figure that, if you asked 10 people on the street to a name a film director, all 10 might very well identify him.

7 years ago

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Martin Luther King’s final speech, ‘standing up for the best in the American dream’

Fifty years dead, Martin Luther King reminds us that we can still see the stars.

7 years ago

PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Mapping affordable housing, crime or development in your Philadelphia neighborhood? Two new tools have you covered.

7 years ago

The cast of
Speak Easy
Arts & Entertainment

Diverse casting helps us understand the richness of the human story

The production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" at People’s Light and Theatre in Malvern, Pa., which included a multiracial ensemble of actors, stirred controversy.

7 years ago

FILE-- This July 22, 1969 file photo shows U.S. Sen Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., arriving back at his home in Hyannis Port, Mass., after attending the funeral of Mary Jo Kopechne in Pennsylvania. A new feature film is in the works about the tragedy on the small Massachusetts island nearly a half century ago that rocked the Kennedy political dynasty. Kopechne drowned when a car driven by Kennedy went off a bridge on Chappaquiddick, a small island in Edgartown, Mass., on the eastern end of Martha's Vineyard in July 1969. (AP Photo/Frank C. Curtin, File)
National Interest
Arts & Entertainment

Finally, a movie about the Chappaquiddick scandal

When I heard that Hollywood was making a movie about Chappaquiddick, I said to myself, "Hallelujah. It's about time."

7 years ago

Demonstrators gather outside the entrance to the Sacramento City Council chambers to protest the shooting death of Stephon Clark by Sacramento police, Tuesday, March 27, 2018, in Sacramento,
The Philadelphia Experiment
Community

It appears to be open season on those standing up against racism

Long before Stephon Clark was shot dead by Sacramento police officers, those who dared to protest police mistreatment of African-Americans became targets.

7 years ago

TV NEWS studio with camera
National Interest
Politics & Policy

New from Trump TV: Sinclair’s robotic propagandists

Welcome to the newest iteration of Trump TV, courtesy of the nation's largest owner of local TV stations.

7 years ago

Former United States Solicitor General Ted Olson, (center), speaks with former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, (right), before an installation ceremony for FBI Director Chris Wray at the FBI Building, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017, in Washington. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Presidents have always attracted top legal talent — until now

Trump might as well post an ad on Craigslist, because nothing else seems to be working.

7 years ago

Kimberly S. Fairbanks and Joe Guzmàn in InterAct Theatre Company's
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

A bristling clash of cultures in InterAct Theatre’s ‘Human Rites’

Plays like “Human Rites” – thoughtfully written and thought-provoking -- are what keep a lot of people, myself included, eagerly going to the theater.

7 years ago

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