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Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.
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Fresh Air Weekend

Fresh Air opens the window on contemporary arts and issues with guests from worlds as diverse as literature and economics. Fresh Air Weekend collects the best segments from the week's programs and crafts them together for great weekend listening.

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Radio Times
Lifestyle

Sex, love and COVID-19

We discuss the strains that the coronavirus has put on our romantic relationships -- dating with masks, sex and physical distancing, and marriages under quarantine.

Air Date: July 29, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 49:27
Former Vice President Joe Biden's plan is coming as the country faces an unprecedented child care crisis, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)
NPR
Health

New Biden plan would spend nearly $800 billion on caregiving

Joe Biden's latest policy proposal would spend billions making both child care and elder care more accessible and affordable.

5 years ago

Asa Vershbow
Community

‘The Vaccinator vs. the Hug-Hater’: Writing contest offers kids’ views of the pandemic

A creative writing contest for 6- to 10-year-olds gave them an opportunity to reflect on their lives while sheltering in place. Here’s what they said.

5 years ago

Listen 5:07
Spending quality time with kids and listening deeply to them is one way to help them tame anxiety. Here Mariano Noesi and Maryam Jernigan-Noesi play with their 4-year-old son Carter. Jernigan-Noesi is a child psychologist. (Lynsey Weatherspoon for NPR)
NPR
Health

Kids feel pandemic stress too. Here’s how to help them thrive

For children, the distress shows itself in difficult moods, stomachaches or even regression to behaviors from earlier childhood.

5 years ago

Groceries outside the Germantown Mutual Aid
Community
Billy Penn

At this Germantown hub, the groceries are free — as long as the community keeps giving back

Mutual aid has a long history among oppressed groups, and is embraced by many modern Indigenous societies.

5 years ago

After three months of much of the country working from home, many employers and their workers now say the benefits of remote work — cost savings and a more relaxed atmosphere — outweigh the drawbacks. (Ada Yokota/Getty Images)
NPR
Community

Get a comfortable chair: Permanent work from home is coming

Indefinite. Or even permanent. These are words companies are using about their employees working from home.

5 years ago

Arts & Entertainment

Portraits of Black fathers to light up Barnes Foundation this weekend

Portraits by West Philly photographer Ken McFarlane show the undersung love and strength of Black fathers.

5 years ago

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Marshay Edwards ATIBA SONNEBEYATTA/5SM PHOTOGRAPHY
Community
Billy Penn

‘Safety, positivity and love’: Philly couple’s maternity photos go viral with message of hope

The portraits were taken in Fairmount Park just before protests flooded the city.

5 years ago

Michael Prell, who works in IT, working from home in his living room (Jessica Kourkounis for Keystone Crossroads)
Radio Times
Lifestyle

The future of the office: remote work after the pandemic

Half of U.S. workers are telecommuting and many want to continue after the pandemic. Many employers are also warming to the idea. So what's the future of the office work?

Air Date: June 17, 2020 10:00 am

Listen 48:57
Former Vice President Joe Biden addresses a Planned Parenthood Action Fund candidate forum in June 2019 in Columbia, S.C. The group declined to back a candidate during the Democratic primaries but announced its support for Biden on Monday.
NPR
Politics & Policy

Planned Parenthood backs Biden, seeing a ‘life and death election’ ahead

Planned Parenthood Action Fund is endorsing Joe Biden. The group also says it's spending 50% more this election cycle than four years ago.

5 years ago

Brandywine Valley SPCA Tropical Storm Cristobal airlift mission
Community

Brandywine Valley SPCA rescues 96 dogs from Tropical Storm Cristobal in airlift mission

The dogs were airlifted to safety so that southern animal shelters could make room for pets displaced by the storm — without the need for euthanasia.

5 years ago

Big Stock
Radio Times
Community

What do you suggest? Advice columnists give us some tips

It seems that every day brings something new to worry about. So how do we get through these days? We invited the advice experts.

Air Date: June 12, 2020

Listen 49:00
Dr. Lauren Jenkins reads to her twin sons, Pierce and Ashton, while wearing her
NPR
Health

She’s a frontline doctor in Philly. Her husband has lung cancer. Now, a simple hug is dangerous.

When Lauren Jenkins learned a coworker had COVID-19, she did what once would've seemed unthinkable — separating from her two sons and a husband with stage IV cancer.

5 years ago

Former Showboat casino in Atlantic City, N.J.
Community

Showboat owner planning $100M water park in Atlantic City

The Philadelphia developer tells The Associated Press the as-yet-unnamed resort is aimed at vacationing families who find little to do in Atlantic City.

5 years ago

Frances Pilot
Community

‘Big Momma’ Frances Pilot, 81, pursued a nursing career and family. And she did it her way.

Defying expectations for women, the Jersey Shore native raised kids while pursuing nursing, served as a volunteer before she was buried with an Elvis purse.

5 years ago

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