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Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.

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Governor Tom Wolf speaks at the First Steps Treatment Center at Chester-Crozer Medical Center.
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Pennsylvania cuts red tape for medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction

Pa.'s Medicaid program will no longer require doctors to get approval when prescribing medications that are proven to help people stay off heroin and prescription painkillers.

9 years ago

Listen 1:45
“Marie Begins” is an interactive opera with several diverging story branches and five different conclusions. (Provided)
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Philly composer’s Choose-Your-Own-Adventure opera brings performance to your screen

“Marie Begins” is a fully sung, interaction opera in the style of "Choose Your Own Adventure" books, with several diverging story branches and five different conclusions.

9 years ago

Listen 2:06
From left to right: Diego Uribe, Ben Shaman, Jake Richard, and Quinn Berger evalute Pennsylvania's new congressional district map compared to the 2011 version at the Westtown School in West Chester, Pa. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
Courts & Law

Despite landmark Pa. court decision, subjectivity remains in congressional mapmaking process

Now that districts have been completely overhauled, some big questions remain: just how much gerrymandering is too much?

9 years ago

Listen 6:28
Top administrators (from left) schools Superintendent William Hite, Managing Director Michael DiBerardinis, Sheriff Jewel Williams, and District Attorney Larry Krasner, applaud during Mayor Jim Kenney's budget address. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Education

Kenney makes school-funding plea, council reacts

Kenney says funding the school district is critical, but council members aren't thrilled about his plan to hike property taxes.

9 years ago

Listen 4:12
Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with lawmakers about trade policy in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Odds improving for Toomey bill to expand background checks, but no slam dunk

The Republican Party seems to be slowly shifting on gun-control measures, but every proposal still faces an uphill battle.

9 years ago

Listen 4:25
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney
PlanPhilly
Politics & Policy

Kenney pitches tax hike for schools, businesses, urban blight, vulnerable residents

The big news coming out of Mayor Jim Kenney's annual budget address held Thursday morning in City Council chambers is a proposed six percent increase in property taxes.

9 years ago

Listen 2:22
Cumberland County College in Vineland, New Jersey (https://goo.gl/maps/9wisT8sURnA2)
Community

10-year-old boy behind South Jersey school shooting threat; situation at Cumberland Community College resolved

The school shooting threat was linked back to a 10-year-old student. And just after 11 a.m., Cumberland County College in Vineland, New Jersey, lifted its lockdown.

9 years ago

U.S. Rep. Pat Meehan will not seek a fifth term in Congress. (AP file photo)
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

More Democrats enter scrum for Meehan’s congressional seat

Three more Democrats are running for Meehan's seat, with more sure to follow.

9 years ago

Listen 2:05
Cherry Hill Mayor Chuck Cahn joins the more than 200 in attendance at the Cherry Hill school board meeting Tuesday night, where a long list of speakers sounded off about school security and administrative gaffes at Cherry Hill East High School. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Following student protests, Cherry Hill mayor favors armed security in schools

But Mayor Chuck Cahn says he does not support arming teachers.

9 years ago

Listen 5:27
Democratic congressional hopeful Laura Quick in between calls on a recent afternoon. Quick, who’s running for the U.S. House of Representatives in the new 9th Congressional District, was trying to find volunteers to help her get signatures for her nominating petition in areas where she hadn’t been campaigning until after Pennsyvlania Supreme Court released the state’s new district map.
Keystone Crossroads
Politics & Policy

Candidates statewide scramble to adjust to Pennsylvania’s new congressional map

This year has been anything but predictable in Pennsylvania.

9 years ago

Listen 4:34
 In this April 12, 2016 file photo, Sen. Patrick J. Toomey, R-Pa. speaks to reporters outside his office on Capitol Hill, in Washington. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo, File)
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics & Policy

Toomey proposes moderate gun control, tangles with Trump

In the meeting, Trump bucked the GOP line and appeared to come to a position on gun control that is well outside Toomey's — and most Republicans' — comfort zone.

9 years ago

Listen 3:02
Gun control protest
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

Helen Ubiñas: Gun control and everyday violence must not be ignored

Ubiñas, a longtime commentator on gun violence in Philadelphia, read her column, "Everyday gun violence must be part of gun control reckoning," on NewsWorks Tonight.

9 years ago

Listen 3:22
Jane Golden, founder and executive director of Mural Arts Philadelphia, introduces the Mural Arts Studio at the Barnes, a space for art education for the organi8zation's Restorative Justice Program.
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Barnes provides showplace for Restorative Justice artists as part of Mural Arts Philly project

Passers-by have peered in to see what the artists are doing. This Sunday, the artists will invite the public inside for an open house.

9 years ago

Listen 2:05
Former deputy mayor Nina Ahmad will challenge U.S. Rep. Bob Brady in the Democratic primary.
Dave Davies: Off Mic
Politics & Policy

Congressional hopefuls scramble as Pa. districts shuffled

Candidates start circulating nominating petitions Tuesday in new districts due to the court order. Some are changing districts, some are quitting.

9 years ago

Listen 5:04
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions gestures during a speech on Security and Immigration priorities before a group of law enforcement officials in Norfolk, Va., Friday, Jan. 26, 2018.
NewsWorks Tonight
Courts & Law

Two towns, two approaches to immigration enforcement in Pa. Which is safer?

Experts can't say whether it's safer to keep ICE at arm's length with "sanctuary" policies or to work closely with federal immigration officers.

9 years ago

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