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The Connection with Marty Moss-Coane

It’s easy to feel as if the world is falling apart. The Connection features wide-ranging conversations about the bonds that hold us together, the forces that drive us apart, the conflicts that keep us from exploring life’s possibilities and the qualities that make us unique and human.

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Opinion & Essay

The cast of 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' at the Walnut Street Theatre, with Frank Ferrante in the center. (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: A laff-a-minute ‘Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum’ (Walnut Street Theatre)

If you’re going to overdo the musical “A Funny thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” you may as well get a high-jinks ...

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Robert McNamara, right, defense secretary under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, is shown in 2001 at a forum at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
Speak Easy
Community

Who fights our wars? Other people’s children

A volunteer-only army outsources foreign wars to the poor and working class — one of the worst legacies of Vietnam, which was also fought mostly by less-privileged Americans.

8 years ago

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., center, listens as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., left, speaks, accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

The GOP’s medical credo: ‘First, do harm’

So here we go again with the Republican quest to wreck the health care coverage of tens of millions of Americans. If you’re sick of ...

8 years ago

Two men are shown burning draft cards at a Jan 31, 1977, rally at J.F.K. Plaza. (Joseph Wasko / Courtesy of George D. McDowell Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Collection, Temple University Libraries)
Speak Easy
Community

‘The voice of the people will be heard’ — from Vietnam protests to the new resistance

Like Americans who demonstrated against the Vietnam War in the late '60s, today's protesters know that it takes more than just one disruption to get the country and its electe

8 years ago

In this file photo, Sen. Bob Menendez talk to reporters as he arrives to court for his federal corruption trial in Newark, N.J., Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017. (Seth Wenig/AP Photo)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Hillary’s Wall Street talks: ‘I shouldn’t have assumed it would be OK’

In 1977, three years out of power, Richard Nixon catalogued his self-inflicted Watergate mistakes. Referring to his political opponents, ...

8 years ago

Ben Carson, secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is shown speaking with city and housing officials at a shelter in Columbus, Ohio, in April. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, file)
Speak Easy
Community

As Carson visits Philly, let’s call for a stronger, fairer HUD

With so many crises since Donald Trump’s inauguration day in January, it’s hard to know where to place one’s atte ...

8 years ago

Lauren Whitehead, portraying Un/Sung, in Opera Philadelphia's 'We Shall Not Be Moved.' (Photo courtesy of Dominic M. Mercier)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Fringe review: Opera Philadelphia’s ‘We Shall Not Be Moved’

The powerful and haunting “We Shall Not Be Moved” that opened Saturday is not only a world-premiere opera, it’s a provo ...

8 years ago

 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is shown speaking to aides on her campaign plane, in White Plains, N.Y., Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, file)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Hillary is right about the mainstream media

Hillary Clinton’s new cri de coeur discomfits the many Democrats who yearn to put 2016 in the rea ...

8 years ago

 In this Saturday, April 1, 1972, file photo, Daniel Ellsberg, chief defendant in the Pentagon Papers case, addresses a crowd at the State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. following an anti-war parade that ended at the Capitol. (AP Photo/Rusty Kennedy)
Speak Easy
Lifestyle

Vietnam was my first war

This story is part of a WHYY series examining how the United States, four decades later, is st ...

8 years ago

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Lifestyle

Op-ed: Hate mail from a ‘friend’

When my friend Bonnie told me she received a three-page letter in the mail, it piqued my interest. Who writes anything longer than a twee ...

8 years ago

 U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey stands in a conference room at his Philadelphia office. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Sen. Pat Toomey a key player in Trump tax overhaul effort

As President Donald Trump and Congress undertake an overhaul of the U.S. tax code this fall, Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is likely ...

8 years ago

 In this Jan. 1, 1966, file photo, a paratrooper of the 173rd U.S. Airborne brigade crouches with women and children in a muddy canal as intense Viet Cong sniper fire temporarily pins down his unit near Bao Trai in Vietnam. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, file)
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

‘It’s hard to take pride in a war that, by any definition, we lost’

“The Vietnam War” heaps ineptness upon ignorance upon immorality by policymakers and the military brass — all gui ...

8 years ago

 Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., the only African-American Republican serving in the Senate, talks to reporters about his plan to meet with President Donald Trump to discuss race and Trump's widely criticized response to last month's protests and racial violence in Charlottesville, Va., at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Trump, Sessions, and stupidity lessons

Mark Twain reputedly said, “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. ...

8 years ago

 Part of a poster for 'A Billion Nights on Earth,' a show brought to the Philly Fringe Festival by the festival producer, FringeArts.
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Philly Fringe reviews: ‘A Billion Nights on Earth’ and ‘These Terrible Things’

A Billion Nights on EarthLittle Winslow, a character who may be 5 or 6 years of age, just can’t get to sleep. Or won’t. He ...

8 years ago

 Left; White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during a news briefing at the White House, in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, file) Right: Jemele Hill attends ESPN: The Party 2017 held on Friday, Feb. 3, 2017, in Houston, Texas. (Photo by John Salangsang/Invision/AP, file)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Since when is it a ‘fireable offense’ to knock a president?

There I was yesterday, all set to spoon out a dollop of praise for Trump, who reportedly plans to sign a newly passed congressional resol ...

8 years ago

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