WHYY staff

NASA spacecraft that were launched decades ago are finally exiting our solar system. What will we discover as they cross the fuzzy bounda ...

Michelle Obama has been stepping out of the White House on her own. Last week she traveled to Ft. Bragg to meet with military spouses and ...

Drug cartels in Mexico have killed over 6,000 people since January of last year. In November, the U.S. Defense Department released a stud ...

Coffee roaster TODD CARMICHAEL has broken the world record for solo walk across Antarctica to the South Pole. He comes into the studio to ...

We discuss the week’s national and international political news with DICK POLMAN, National Political columnist at the Philadelphia ...

TOPIC: As consumers scale back retailers are scrambling to adjust to leaner times. We talk about the retail sector of the economy and the ...

We take a look at the country’s prison system. Why are so many incarcerated and is it worth the high cost? Our guests are ADAM GELB ...

[REBROADCAST] Former Philadelphia columnist STEVE LOPEZ on his book, “The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Re ...

What accounts for fluctuations in the stock market? What makes it go up one day and down the next? Our guest, psychiatrist and economist, ...

Yesterday, President Obama signed an executive order to lift the ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. We discuss the ...

The American lottery could have as many characteristics as its states. The 42 states that have a lottery use the money differently – ...

We recently had a near brush with disaster as an asteroid passed 40,000 miles from earth. Well, it wasn’t really that close to disa ...