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 A statue of Jefferson Davis, (left), is on display in Statuary Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 24, 2015. The statue was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection in the U.S. Capitol by Mississippi in 1931. Davis served the nation in many positions before being appointed president of the Confederate States during the Civil War, including Secretary of War, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a member of the U.S. Senate.  (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Pelosi calls for removal of Confederate statues from Capitol

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is calling for the removal of Confederate statues from the U.S. Capitol as the contentious debate over ...

9 years ago

 This Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, file photo shows Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo, File)
Politics & Policy

Tech companies banishing extremists after Charlottesville

It took bloodshed in Charlottesville to get tech companies to do what civil rights groups have been calling for for years: take a firmer ...

9 years ago

 In this July 20, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump listens as Merck CEO Ken Frazier speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
National Interest
Money

CEOs to Trump: You’re bad for business

It’s not often — actually, it’s never happened before — that a Republican president gets dissed and dumped by corporate t ...

9 years ago

 Lillie Williams and Jonatan Palacios stand outside the offices of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in West Philadelphia after completing an interview to determine the legitimacy of their marriage. (Laura Benshoff / WHYY)
Courts & Law

After marrying U.S. citizens, undocumented immigrants coming out of the shadows attract ICE scrutiny

Marriage tests couples in any number of ways. Lillie Williams and Jonatan Palacios, both 27, have just spent about an hour being q ...

9 years ago

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an anti-racist rally
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Confronting hate after Charlottesville

Guests: Reverend Mark Kelly Tyler, Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, Howard Stevenson Thousands of Philadelphians marched ...

Air Date: August 17, 2017

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Courts & Law

Trump disbands two White House business councils, amid criticism from CEOs for remarks on Charlottesville protest

Trump disbands two White House business councils, amid criticism from CEOs for remarks on Charlottesville protest. CEOs have been ...

9 years ago

 President Donald Trump listens to a question while meeting the media in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Politics & Policy

Trump says it again: Blame ‘on both sides’ in Charlottesville

9 years ago

 President Donald Trump speaks about the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Monday, Aug. 14, 2017, in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
National Interest
Politics & Policy

Trump’s second Charlottesville statement, translated

At the White House yesterday, Trump said: “… Racism is evil. And those who cause violen ...

9 years ago

 White nationalist demonstrators walk through town after their rally was declared illegal near Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Politics & Policy

On ‘Radio Times’: President Trump’s response to the violence in Charlottesville

In response to the violence in Charlottesville over the weekend, Radio Times talked about white supremacist groups and President Trump’ ...

9 years ago

 Members of the KKK are escorted by police past a large group of protesters during a KKK rally Saturday, July 8, 2017, in Charlottesville, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Politics & Policy

Delaware Sen. Coons: Trump ‘failed to step up’ to Charlottesville racists

President Trump’s comments following the white supremacist violence in Virginia this weekend may make it harder for him to work wit ...

9 years ago

 Tobacco plots at the University of Kentucky. Researchers are growing Burley plants, the most common tobacco variety in the United States. (Morgane Fouse of Prismatic Radio LLC./for WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

As Americans quit smoking, farmers give up tobacco

Shifting public opinion and smoking habits have changed Kentucky farming. I’m in northern Kentucky with University of Kentuc ...

9 years ago

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This undated photo provided by Matthew Kirwan shows Phragmites and Spartina marshland expanding into a ghost forest in Robbins, Md. Rising sea levels are killing trees along vast swaths of the North American coast by inundating them in salt water. The dead trees in what used to be thriving freshwater coastal environments are called 'ghost forests' by researchers. (Matthew Kirwan via AP)
NewsWorks Tonight
Science

‘Ghost forests’ proliferating along North American fresh water coastlines

Matthew Kirwan, professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science speaks with NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller. Marshlands a ...

9 years ago

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 Thousands gathered on the Ben Franklin Parkway the morning of Saturday, January 21, for the Women's March in Philadelphia. (Brad Larrison for NewsWorks)
Speak Easy
Community

Women’s March organization doesn’t like to be questioned, not even by a progressive woman

In ...

9 years ago

In this Feb. 2, 2017, photo, President Donald Trump listens as he is introduced during the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file)
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Is America becoming a mafia state?

Increasingly the United States runs the risk of looking and behaving like a mafia state. This is a sign of the times under the ...

9 years ago

 National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre listens to musician Lee Greenwood perform before the arrival of President Donald Trump to the National Rifle Association Leadership Conference, Friday, April 28, 2017, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, file)
Speak Easy
Politics & Policy

Now is the time for Americans to redefine patriotism

Increasing evidence of Russian infiltration in the GOP, the NRA, and the American Right, provides an opportunity to unshackle ourselves from outdated definitions of patriotism

9 years ago

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