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Guests: Chris Bolden-Newsome, Jenny Greenberg, Eric Ellestad Rows of cabbage, eggplant, and sweet potatoes are growing at the Farm at Bartram’s Garden, a hidden gem in Southwest Philadelphia. CHRIS BOLDEN-NEWSOME, farm co-director at the garden, employs youth, plants […]

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Guests: Katie Meyer, Sarah Karlin-Smith, Robert Field For the second year in a row, Governor Tom Wolf allowed an unbalanced budget to become law without his signature. Lawmakers failed to agree on a plan on how to cover […]

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Guests: Maria Quiñones-Sánchez, Silvana Mazzella, Carol Rostucher, Mike Newall The cleanup of the heroin encampment along the Conrail tracks in Philadelphia has been postponed.  The section of railroad tracks in the Fairhill and Kensington neighborhoods is home to […]

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Guests: Tim Arango, Steven Cook, Imani Perry Iraqi forces recaptured Mosul this week, driving out the last ISIS fighters. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared victory against the jihadists after the nine month battle to retake the city.  […]

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Guests: Brooke Gladstone On the Media’s BROOKE GLADSTONE comes to the WHYY auditorium to talk with Marty in front of an audience in this special edition of Radio Times. She recently published a prescient book called The Trouble […]

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This week, President Donald Trump is in Germany for his first G20 summit. Trump faces challenging foreign policy tests in Europe and Asia. Yesterday, Trump met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the […]

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Guests: Ruth Abaya, Scott Charles, Ralph Demicco, Marty Vriniotis The statistics around guns and children are startling according to a recent report.  Every year 1300 children are killed by someone with a firearm and 5790 children are injured. […]

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Guest: Ed Luce Financial Times columnist ED LUCE believes that Western liberal democracy is destroying itself. In his new book The Retreat of Western Liberalism, Luce points to Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, rising nationalism, and a […]

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Guests: Jill Lapore, Sarah Vowell, Nathaniel Philbrick For this 4th of July, we’re devoting today’s show to stories about the Revolutionary War. We’ll hear about Ben Franklin’s overlooked sister, Jane. She was a close confidant to her prominent […]

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Guest: Mark Bowden Historians often point to the battle of Huế, part of the Tet Offensive, as the turning point in the Vietnam War. The surprise fierce fighting by the North convinced Americans that the war was unwinnable, […]

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