Radio Times

Guests: Alec MacGillis, Christine Todd Whitman, Juliet Eilperin

We’ll get caught up on what’s been going on behind the doors of three federal agencies under the Trump administration – Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of the Interior.  We start with ProPublica’s ALEC MACGILLIS, who tells us how Secretary Ben Carson is operating HUD. Then, CHRISTINE TODD WHITMAN, former EPA Secretary under George W. Bush, shares her concerns that EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt’s is burying climate science. And, we’ll end the hour with a look at Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s recommendations to shrink the size of s national monuments and open some protected lands to hunting, grazing, timber harvesting and oil drilling. We’ll talk with JULIET EILPERIN, Washington Post senior national affairs correspondent.

Guests: Jeff Stein, Walter Tsou, Micah Weinberg

When Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a single-payer healthcare bill to the Senate in 2014, no other Democrats were willing to sign onto the bill. But now, one third of Senate Democrats are in support of a similar bill, introduced last week. Among the Dems willing to endorse Sanders’ legislation are high-profile potential candidates for president, including Senators Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, and Elizabeth Warren. We’ll talk with Vox reporter, JEFF STEIN about what’s in Sanders’ bill, the push for Democrats to embrace single-payer, as well as the GOP’s final push to repeal Obamacare. Then, we’ll discuss the merits and drawbacks of a single-payer system. We’ll talk to, physician and past president of the American Public Health Association WALTER TSOU, and with MICAH WEINBERG, President of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute.

Guests: John Baer, Matt Blaze, Fahmida Rashid

Have you visited the Equifax website to find out if you’re data – your social security and driver’s license numbers – were stolen during their massive security breach? Half of all Americans personal information is reportedly at risk. But a recent poll shows that while most consumers are worried about the Equifax hack, few are taking action to protect themselves. This hour, we’ll look more closely at the Equifax breach and what it reveals about our security online with MATT BLAZE, associate professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania and FAHMIDA RASHID, senior writer for CSO. We’ll also discuss the steps we should all be taking to safeguard our information. But first; another year, another budget battle in Harrisburg. Daily News columnist JOHN BAER joins us to talk about the proposed budget, impasse, what’s holding up an agreement.

Guests: Ed Luce, Kenneth Lacovara, Ted Daeschler

Digging up 350 million year old fish fossils in Antarctica and unearthing gigantic dinosaur bones in the Patagonian Desert – that’s the work of our two guests today. KENNETH LACOVARA and TED DAESCHLER are two local fossil hunters who comb the Earth for clues to our prehistoric past. Lacovara is a Rowan University paleontologist and Dean who discovered the enormous dinosaur, Dreadnoughtus, a few years ago. He has a new book, Why Dinosaurs Matter, that argues that ancient life has a lot to teach us about ourselves. Daeschler, an associate curator of vertebrate zoology at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, recently returned from an expedition to Antarctica where he was searching for fossils that will reveal how life transitioned from sea to land. Marty talks with Daeschler and Lacovara about their work, their adventures, and what we’re learning about Earth and its creatures that lives hundreds of millions of years ago. But first, we’ll talk with Financial Times columnist, ED LUCE, about President Trump’s speech to the U.N. on Tuesday.

Guests: Angela Dodson, Will Bunch, Adam Ozimek

Abigail Adam’s once admonished her husband John Adams, in a letter from 1776, to “remember the ladies,” as he and members of the Continental Congress as they began writing the laws of the new nation. Author ANGELA DODSON takes the title of her new book on women’s suffrage from Adam’s letter. We start out this hour, talking with Dodson about, Remember the Ladies and the long struggle for women’s right to vote in the United States.   Then, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney is courting Amazon to make Philadelphia home to their 2nd headquarters. Would this bring a much-needed economic boom to the city, or would an influx of new high-paid residents drive up the cost of living for the residents? We’ll be joined by Philadelphia Daily News columnist, WILL BUNCH, and by Moody’s senior economist, ADAM OZIMEK.

This hour, we’ll listen to Marty’s conversation about Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s much anticipated 10 part PBS documentary about the Vietnam War. Marty spoke with four guests at the Museum of the American Revolution last week about what it was like to serve in Vietnam, and about how the experience changed them. Veteran RALPH GALATI, was shot down and imprisoned at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” alongside John McCain. ERTELL WHIGHAM  Marine Corps veteran served in Vietnam in 1969, and MARSHA FOUR worked as a nurse in Vietnam in 1969. We’ll also hear from psychologist PETER YEOMANS, who works at the Philadelphia VA Medical Center and studies PTSD and something called “moral injury.”

Guest: Stephen Greenblatt

STEPHEN GREENBLATT, an American Shakespearean, literary historian, and Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award winning author, explores the biblical story of Adam and Eve. Greenblatt uncovers the theological, artistic and cultural impact over centuries that has made these fictional figures so profoundly resonant in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In his hour, Mary Cummings-Jordan talks with Greenblatt about his new book The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve—an investigation of an ancient story and what it teaches us about human fears and desires.

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Guests: Luis Ferré-Sadurní, Nicole Krauss

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Guests: Marlene Schwartz, Justin Gallagher, Wendy Troxel, Amy Norr

The Trump administration has said it wants to roll back the Obama-era healthy school lunch requirements, loosening rules around whole grains, sodium and milk. For a lot of students, school lunch is the healthiest meal they get each day. In a step to ensure all students have access to a healthy meal, New York just joined a handful of other cities last week, by offering universal free lunch to all public students. We start this hour talking about the importance of healthy school lunches with MARLENE SCHWARTZ, director of the Rudd Center for Policy and Obesity at the University of Connecticut, and JUSTIN GALLAGHER, professor of economics at Case Western University. Then, we turn to early school start times and drowsy teenagers. We’ve known for many years that starting school too early is bad for adolescent health but a recent study says that starting schools a little later could save $83 billion over a decade.  WENDY TROXEL, co-author of the study and a senior behavioral and social scientist at the RAND Corporation, and AMY NORR, a parent activist in the Lower Merion School District, join us to discuss teenage sleep and the challenges to changing school start times.

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Guests: Rick Wilson, John Brabender

“The Republican establishment is trying to nullify the 2016 election.” So says former Trump senior advisor and campaign CEO Steve Bannon in an interview on 60 Minutes that aired Sunday night. The GOP currently controls the presidency and both chambers of congress, yet are seemingly in disarray. They are unable to pass any significant legislation. President Trump has been publicly feuding with party leaders. The President also made a deal with Democrats to raise the debt ceiling, much to the surprise of the debt-adverse Republicans. Today on the show, we’ll talk about the state of the GOP, what the future hold for them, and what needs to happened for them to more effectively run the government when we are joined by Republican consultants RICK WILSON and JOHN BRABENDER.

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