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Oh, how the tables have turned. High School Quiz Show host Billy Costa put Jim Braude and Margery Eagan on the other side of the answer sheet this week…

After ISIS released video of the brutal murder of Jordanian pilot Muath al-Kaseasbeh, the reaction of the pilot’s home country was swift. By dawn, two…

It doesn’t take a close reading of Emily Post’s Etiquette handbook to know that there are three topics that should never be discussed in polite company:…

If there’s one thing that can bring together Americans of all ages and stripes, it’s the promise of consuming obscene amounts of cheese and hot sauce…

While Twitter feeds around the Northeast this week were clogged with photos of snowdrifts and intrepid New Englanders skiing cavalierly down major…

Greece’s new prime minister, 40-year-old Alexis Tsipras, is the youngest leader that country has seen in over a century.But Tsipras brings with him a…

Today:Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, discusses the organization's work.

Volker Türk is the United Nations High Commissioner on human rights. We talk to him about the agency’s continued campaign against human rights violations worldwide, despite the U.S. pulling back support.Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem on the latest in the Brown University shooting investigation, as detectives scramble for footage of a possible suspect. Plus her thoughts on that Susie Wiles Vanity Fair article.Step aside vinyl, CDs and DVDs are BACK — at least for Gen-Z. We talk to The Culture Show’s Jared Bowen about that, plus the mythology of Hamnet and its connection to the Bard’s most famous soliloquy.While State auditor Diana DiZoglio’s effort to audit the legislature still hasn’t happened, despite the voters’ will, she’s launching a new ballot question that would subject both the Legislature and the governor's office to the state public records law. She joins us.

CNN's John King on the latest national political headlinesNBC Sports Boston's Trenni Casey joins in person to discuss outrageous ticket prices for the World Cup and John Cena's retirementFood policy analyst Corby Kummer zooms in to discuss the Market Basket family back in court todayMahsa Khanbabai, attorney for Rumeysa Ozturk, zooms in to discuss her client's caseBoston Mayor Michelle Wu answered listener questions for Ask The Mayor 1-2.

Cristina Quinn, of The Washington Post's Try This podcast, co-hosts with Jim today. Amherst College professor Ilan Stavans discusses a far-right win in the the Chilean presidential elections and the mass shooting at a Hanukkah event in Australia.Daniel Drezner, dean of international politics at Tufts Fletcher School, discusses the Trump/MAGA foreign policy evolution.Bertil Jean-Chronberg of Bonde Fine Wine Shop and Alexandra Whiznant of Zuzu's Petals wine and dessert bar join for a wine panel. They bring some bubby, crème brûlée...and a blow torch.MIT economist Jon Gruber talks about his appearance on 60 Minutes talking about pros and price tag of genetic therapies.Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III discuss a new poll that finds no religious revival among young Americans, despite a different media narrative. Plus, the Democrats in Congress trying to take back faith from the right.Harvard national security expert Juliette Kayyem gives the latest on the deadly Brown University mass shooting.Then we espouse on the benefits of using cold, hard cash to stay within your shopping budget.

Andrea Cabral and Shirley Leung are in the host seats. They talk with: NPR critic-at-large Eric Deggans on journalism ethics in the wake of Olivia Nuzzi, AI taking over podcast jobs at the Washington Post, and more media news.GBH's Callie Crossley on why Greater Boston’s gender wage gap is shrinking…while the racial wage gap is growing. And on DEI in Boston business, and about a student from her alma mater who’s bringing Black dolls to local kids.It's a holiday edition of Live Music Friday with students from the Boston Latin School Concert Choir, ahead of their annual Family Holiday Concert this Sunday.NBC10 Boston media maven Sue O’Connell is fresh back from covering the trial of Brian Walshe, accused of murdering his wife. She gives us the latest in the case and tries to explain to us why everyone is obsessed with these grisly murder trials.