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Guests:  ROBERT EPSTEIN, REVA SETH and BENJAMIN KARNEY The notion of an arranged marriage (by choice) seems odd ...

In the new PBS film “Soul Food Junkies,” Newark, NJ-based filmmaker ...

The Philadelphia School District’s proposed plan to close 37 public schools by the end of the school year has some people worried about ...

Seven hundred thousand inmates are released from U.S. prisons each year. A new documentary film funded by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in ...

For their newly-published book, Giving Our Children A Fighting Chance, e ...

Last week Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that he was ending the military’s ban on women serving in combat positions. “Femal ...

The massacre last month at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut galvanized the national conversation on gun control, but ...

Novelist JULIE OTSUKA didn’t dream of being a writer. She pursued fine ...

Every New Year millions of Americans resolve to lose weight, eat better and hit the gym.  Sadly, many of us aren’t successful.  But i ...

Forty years ago this month, the Supreme Court ruled on Roe v. Wade, the historic case that made abortion legal in the United States. The ...

On Monday, after four months on the job, Philadelphia School Superintendent William Hite, Jr. made public his ...

The six men accused of gang raping and killing a 23-year-old Indian woman were formally charged last week. The horrific attack has set of ...

As school districts cut budgets, worry about litigation and squeeze more academics into limited time, recess has taken a hit in terms of ...

Hour 2 Guest: Alan Bernstein It’s that time of year when we take inventory of our lives – what’s working, what’s n ...

This year there’s some good news in the fight against childhood obesity – particularly for Philadelphia. Rates of childhood obesity h ...