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The Descendents are a punk rock band formed in 1977 in Manhattan Beach, California. They have released seven studio albums, three live al ...

Guests: Manu Bhagavan, Howard Lavine The people of Turkey recently voted to give president Erdoğan more authorit ...

Last year, the Philadelphia School District ended most out-of-school suspensions for kindergartners. However, thousands of elementary sch ...

Guests: Dave Davies, Holly Otterbein Seven Democrats and one Republican are running to be Philadelphia’s next ...

Most of us know somebody who is always negative – predicting worst-case scenarios, seeing only what wen ...

Now more commonly observed as a celebration of spring, in older times May 1st was considered the first day of summer in some European cou ...

Guests: Amor Towles This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution.  The young Soviet ...

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Drawing the lines Gerrymandering. The word is loaded with negative connotations of partisan politics. Gerrymanderi ...

Wild violets are beautiful but ephemeral—especially when a landlord can’t wait to mow them down! On this week’s You Bet Your Garden ...

The 2017 NFL draft is in town. Thousands of football fans and draft pick hopefuls from around the country have taken over the Benjamin Fr ...

Producer: Michael O’Reilly It’s not every artist who sees a sketch from the archives of the Wagner ...