Religion
Who’s getting married, who isn’t and why
Guest: Andrew Cherlin In honor of the start of wedding season, we’re going to spend the hour talking about t ...
Air Date: May 15, 2013
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Should refusing medical care for children be considered neglect?
Guests: Paul Offit and Shawn Peters Eight-month old Brandon Schaible died last month after his parents re ...
Air Date: May 14, 2013
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The legacy of Pope Benedict and hopes for the future of the Catholic church
GUESTS: SISTER SIMONE CAMPBELL, WILLIAM MADGES, BETHANY WELCH Cardinals from across the globe have gathered in ...
Air Date: March 11, 2013
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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 ...
Air Date: January 9, 2013
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Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss: ‘A Universe from Nothing’
[REBROADCAST] How did the Universe arise from nothing? And what was there before? Those are the kinds of questions tha ...
Air Date: January 4, 2013
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Politics, foreign affairs and the year in review
In Washington, lawmakers are still wrangling over plans that would prevent a fiscal crisis in coming days and have put on hold further ne ...
Air Date: December 26, 2012
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Debunking doomsday 2012 junk science
[REBROADCAST] Today is December 21st, 2012. And the hype about the “end of the world” has reached a super ...
Air Date: December 21, 2012
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Downsizing the Pentagon budget; then, what suicide bombers & rampage shooters have in common
Should the U.S. slide off the fiscal cliff in a few weeks, over $55 billion in spending cuts a year for the next decade will kick in at t ...
Air Date: December 19, 2012
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The role religion does play and should play in American government
[REBROADCAST] In this era of “faith and value politics,” we find ourselves frequently debating the role religion ...
Air Date: November 23, 2012
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As the air war over Israel and Gaza continues and Israeli’s amass ground troops and tanks along the shared border, Egyptian-led eff ...
Air Date: November 20, 2012
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The Taliban attack on Malala Yousufzai
Hour 2 The vicious Oct. 9 attack by Taliban fighters on 14-year old Malala Yousufzai as she was returning home f ...
Air Date: October 17, 2012
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The complex relationship between the U.S., Iran and Israel
Hour 1 As the U.N. General Assembly meets this week, the debate and rhetoric over Iran’s nuclear weapons ca ...
Air Date: September 24, 2012
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