Radio Times Archive
The pros and cons of a gas tax holiday
John McCain and Hillary Clinton have proposed suspending the 18-cent-per-gallon gas tax for the summer driving season. Critics say the p ...
Air Date: May 1, 2008
TV military analysts: are they reliable? A recent New York Times story portrayed a Bush administration public relations program involving ...
Air Date: May 1, 2008
Should Congress update the GI Bill? Under the original bill, World War Two Vets were reimbursed for the full cost of tuition and fees fro ...
Air Date: April 30, 2008
Former Congress Mickey Edwards on Conservatism
Former congressman Mickey Edwards joins Marty to talk about his new book Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement ...
Air Date: April 30, 2008
Writer Donna Foote on Teach for America
In her new book Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches With Teach for America, former Newsweek correspondent Donna Foote follows four ...
Air Date: April 29, 2008
It is being called the “silent tsunami”- rising food prices that are forcing more people around the world to go hungry. The s ...
Air Date: April 29, 2008
This Sunday through Thursday PBS will air a 10-part series filmed aboard the USS Nimitz a nuclear aircraft carrier during a six month dep ...
Air Date: April 28, 2008
Is peace possible between Israel and the Palestinians? We talk with AARON DAVID MILLER author of The Much Too Promised Land: AmericaR ...
Air Date: April 28, 2008
Former Philadelphia columnist STEVE LOPEZ. He’s in Philadelphia to talk about his new book The Soloist: A Lost Dream, an Unlikely F ...
Air Date: April 25, 2008
Are the dems too divided to win in November? Both the 1972 and 1984 democratic primaries were drawn out fights, and both times the Democr ...
Air Date: April 25, 2008
Inheriting the Legacy of Slave-Traders
James DeWolf, a U.S. Senator from Rhode Island, made a fortune in the slave trade and died the second richest man in the United States in ...
Air Date: April 24, 2008
Biofuels, Global Warming and Land-Use
Two recently published scientific studies have raised new concerns about the environmental benefit of biofuels like enthanol. One such s ...
Air Date: April 24, 2008
We talk about the history of 25 million Kurds, where they stand in contemporary Iraq, and their struggle for independence. Our guest is Q ...
Air Date: April 23, 2008
We get reaction to the Pennsylvania Primary Results from a series of guests including PAT WALKER, editor of the Bucks County Courier Time ...
Air Date: April 23, 2008
Philadelphia is a city of row houses – from the colonial era trinity to the 19th century workingman’s house and the 20th cent ...
Air Date: April 22, 2008
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