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Host Stephen Dubner has surprising conversations that explore the riddles of everyday life and the weird wrinkles of human nature-from cheating and crime to parenting and sports. Dubner talks with Nobel laureates and provocateurs, social scientists and entrepreneurs - and his Freakonomics co-author Steve Levitt.

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Criminal Justice

Defendant Michael White leaves court on Tuesday afternoon. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Courts & Law

‘I was just trying to get him off me’: Philly bike courier says he stabbed developer in self-defense

Michael White told a Philadelphia jury on Tuesday that he stabbed real estate developer Sean Schellenger, but never wanted to kill him.

6 years ago

Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings stands with Newark Police Lt. Andrew Rubin at a Wilmington press conference detailing how investigators used DNA evidence and a private database to identify a suspect charged in a 1993 sexual assault in Newark. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Private DNA database leads to arrest in decades-old Delaware rape

Newark Police arrested a suspect in the decades-old case after using DNA evidence and an ancestry-type website to identify the alleged attacker.

6 years ago

File photo: Supporters of Marsy's Law held signs in protest during the ACLU's press conference announcing its lawsuit. (Katie Meyer/WHYY)
Politics & Policy

ACLU files last-minute suit arguing Pa.’s Marsy’s Law amendment is unconstitutional

Marsy’s Law would insert a bill of rights for crime victims in Pennsylvania’s constitution. The ACLU thinks it’s too sweeping and would need to be broken into parts.

6 years ago

Botham Jean's younger brother Brandt Jean hugs convicted murderer and former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger after delivering his impact statement to her after she was sentenced to 10 years in jail, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, in Dallas. Guyger shot and killed Botham Jean, an unarmed 26-year-old neighbor in his own apartment last year. She told police she thought his apartment was her own and that he was an intruder. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP, Pool)
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Community

On forgiveness

The video of Brandt Jean forgiving and hugging Amber Guyger, who murdered his brother, has sparked a national conversation about the nature of forgiveness.

Air Date: October 11, 2019 10:00 am

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FILE PHOTO: In this Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019 file photo, an inmate and artist named Ezra poses for a portrait at the State Correctional Institution in Chester, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Courts & Law

One of Pa.’s prison units is about to go Scandinavian

The change, which will involve new furniture and roomier cells, will test whether a less punitive prison environment will yield better-behaved inmates.

6 years ago

ACLU Legal Director Vic Walczak with plaintiffs Melissa Gass and Ashley Bennett. (Katie Meyer / WITF)
Courts & Law

ACLU says Pa. county medical marijuana policy violates state law

The group’s Pennsylvania chapter is suing the county in hopes it will allow people on probation to use medical cannabis.

6 years ago

Willie Veasy (NBC10)
Courts & Law

Philadelphia man cleared of murder after 27 years in prison

Willie Veasy's long-running appeal came to an end Wednesday morning, when a judge tossed out the murder conviction.

6 years ago

The drug recognition expert
Courts & Law

N.J. Supreme Court weighs scientific merit of methods cops use to spot intoxicated drivers

For the first time, N.J.’s high court is hearing a challenge to the scientific merits of the methodology cops use to spot and charge drivers under the influence of drugs.

6 years ago

Michael White in 2018. (Michael D'Onofrio/The Philadelphia Tribune)
Courts & Law
The Philadelphia Tribune

Krasner moves to drop murder charge against bike courier accused of stabbing Center City developer

District Attorney Larry Krasner on Friday filed a motion to drop murder charges against the black bicycle courier accused of fatally stabbing a Center City developer.

6 years ago

Maureen Faulkner expresses her feelings outside of the Philadelphia District Attorney's office. (Tom MacDonald/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Maureen Faulkner, widow of slain Philly police officer, wants Krasner off potential Mumia retrial

The wife of a slain Philadelphia police officer wants the district attorney removed from a possible retrial of her husband's killer, Mumia Abu Jamal.

6 years ago

Vaughn prison in Smyrna, Delaware. (Zoë Read/WHYY)
Courts & Law

Lawsuit: Inmates cries for help were ignored before suicide death

The lawsuit alleges Darius Sarro was raped and bullied by other inmates on multiple occasions over a two-year period, while housed at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center.

6 years ago

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner.
Courts & Law
Billy Penn

You can now track the Philly criminal justice system in real time

DA Krasner’s new online dashboard updates daily, from arrests to sentences.

6 years ago

House lawmakers celebrate passing a slate of bills that they say will give victims equal rights, including Marsy's Law. (Katie Meyer/WITF)
Politics & Policy

Pa.’s upcoming election features a contentious ballot question: Marsy’s Law, or not?

The amendment would enshrine certain rights for crime victims in the commonwealth’s constitution.

6 years ago

This March 28, 2017, file photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)
Radio Times
Courts & Law

The reporter who brought down Jeffrey Epstein

The magnitude of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation was brought to light by Miami Herald reporter JULIE K. BROWN who got to the bottom of this explosive story.

Air Date: October 2, 2019 10:00 am

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(Matt Rourke/AP Photo, File)
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Community

Regional Roundup – 09/30/19

This week: Are Pennsylvania police dropping the ball tracking racial profiling? Lt. Gov. John Fetterman discuses recreational marijuana in Pa.. Then, fall gardening cleanup.

Air Date: September 30, 2019 10:00 am

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