All Things Considered
Weekdays, 4:00- 6:00pm
All Things Considered is the most listened-to, afternoon drive-time, news radio program in the country. Every day the show is hosted nationally by Ailsa Chang, Mary Louise Kelly, Juana Summers and Scott Detrow. Plus, WDIY's local hosts give you Lehigh Valley news, weather, and traffic updates.
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NASA launched a telescope named after Nancy Grace Roman, the pioneering astronomer whose work helped make Hubble and generations of space telescopes possible.
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A corn dog may look like lunch. But to an economist, the price is a bigger story about food prices and inflation.
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The U.S. has pledged 3.5 million in flood aid for Tibet and Nepal, with the first $500,000 distributed by Catholic Relief Services. An aid worker with the group explains what flood survivors need now.
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Insanity defenses are notoriously difficult to win. But Massachusetts law could give Lindsay Clancy a better chance.
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For more than 50 years, Noel Godin went after famous and powerful people with cream pies. His targets included politicians, philosophers, filmmakers and, famously, Bill Gates.
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Dolly Parton built a movie career on top of an already huge music career. Other singers have tried, with mixed results.
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Researchers are looking at new ways to use psychedelics to treat depression. Science journalist Marcelo Leite says there's also a lot to learn from indigenous people who have used them for generations.
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What happens when Russia arrests civilians in the Ukrainian territories it occupies? New Yorker writer Joshua Yaffa followed a group of women through the Russian prison system.
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Would $10 convince you to walk up to a stranger and tie their shoe? One Minneapolis artist turned that question into delightfully public chaos.
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President Trump says a new deal with Venezuela would give the U.S. control of more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves.