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You don’t need a degree in economics, or a kid in college, to know that the cost of higher education in the United States is going ...

In his new book, The Death of Conservatism, author SAM TANENHAUS argues that the nation is better off when liberals are challenged by ...

A repaired Hubble telescope is almost like new, which means it has new capabilities to take images that are much improved. Now we can der ...

In 1832, 57 Irish Catholic laborers died about 30 miles from Philadelphia in a place that has come to be called “Duffy’s Cut. ...

According to the most recent Department of Labor statistics, there are nearly six workers available for every job opening in the United S ...

Radio Times checks in with the annual Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe with monologist MIKE DAISEY. His new piece is cal ...

Congress has retaken Capitol Hill after a summer recess full of raucous town meetings and heated rhetoric. But health care, the focus of ...

Novelist NICHOLSON BAKER joins Marty to talk about his new book, “The Anthologist.” It’s a story about a middle-aged po ...

Wednesday night, at a joint session of Congress, President Obama made his case for new health care legislation. We’ll talk about pu ...

The U.S. Open tennis tournament at Flushing Meadows, NY is in its second week. Roger Federer will be going for a record sixth straight Op ...

U.S. Senator TED KAUFMAN spent his Labor Day weekend in Afghanistan, and will explain to us how he thinks a strong Iraqi security force b ...

According to our guest, biologist BILL STREEVER, cold – as in the temperature – has gotten a bad rap. His new book, “CO ...