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A conversation with Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey; then civil rights attorney David Rudovsky

Guests: Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey and David Rudovsky On January 1, the Philadelphia Police Department im ...

Air Date: January 27, 2014

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Changing marijuana laws

Guests: James Kenney, Bob Young, Staci Gruber Philadelphia Councilman James Kenney introduced a bill yeste ...

Air Date: January 24, 2014

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Obama’s NSA surveillance reforms

Guests: Geoffrey Stone, Steven Bradbury, Jonathan Hafetz Last week President Obama announced his plans to curb th ...

Air Date: January 21, 2014

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The story of the 1971 break in of the FBI office in Media and its lessons for government surveillance

Hour 2 Guests: Betty Medsger, Bonnie Raines and John Raines On March 8, 1971, Philadelphians BONNIE AND JOHN RAINES were tw ...

Air Date: January 14, 2014

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The future of Guantanamo

Guests: Marine Major General Michael Lehnert and Carol Rosenberg 12 years have passed since the first detainees a ...

Air Date: January 13, 2014

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Challenges to NSA surveillance

Guests: Geoffrey Stone, David Cole, David Rivkin Yesterday a White House advisory panel released recommendations ...

Air Date: December 20, 2013

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Combating sex trafficking

Guests: Mary DeFusco, Shea Rhodes, Senator Stewart Greenleaf, Kate Keisel Last week a bill to combat human trafficking passed unan ...

Air Date: December 16, 2013

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3-D Printing: How the Technology is Shaking Up Product Design

Guests: Joseph Flaherty, Hod Lipson, and Melba Kurman Need a new ear? What about a gun? These are just two of th ...

Air Date: November 25, 2013

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Hanns and Rudolf: The True Story of the German Jew Who Tracked Down and Caught the Kommandant of Auschwitz

HR 2 GUEST: THOMAS HARDING British journalist ...

Air Date: November 11, 2013

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 An arrest in Norristown has landed Ernesto Cruz-Garcia in immigration court. (Peter Tobia/for NewsWorks)
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Immigrants often forced to fight deportation despite wrongful arrests

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US spying and the political fallout

Guests: David Sanger, Rachel Levinson-Waldman New revelations that the National Security Agency monitored the cell phone conversat ...

Air Date: October 30, 2013

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Heroin and opioid addiction in our neighborhoods

Guests:  Jeremiah Daley and David Fialko The Philadelphia region has seen an alarming increase in prescription d ...

Air Date: October 25, 2013

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Delaware’s Criminal Justice System: Prison Overcrowding and Pretrial Detention

Guests: Joanna Champney and Robert Coupe A recent ...

Air Date: October 22, 2013

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What we can learn from the tragic death of Sunil Tripathi

Guests:  JUDY TRIPATHI, SANGEETA TRIPATHI and RAVI TRIPATHI Last spring, the body of 22-year old Sunil Tripathi was found along ...

Air Date: September 4, 2013

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Anatomy of violence

Guest: Adrian Raine [REBROADCAST] Why does someone commit a violent crime?  Is it their genes, ...

Air Date: August 23, 2013

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