Boston Public Radio

David Axelrod is a grizzled veteran of American politics, first covering it as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and then working campaigns for Richard…

Before you climb up onto your roof with a shovel* to clear off the forty feet of snow that's accumulated in the past few days, you may want to listen to…

"American Sniper"—the Clint Eastwood blockbuster about real-life Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle—has broken record after record at the box office. But the…

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:…

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Tuesday, July 31st, 2018. We opened up the lines to you about the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge closure and traffic on the Mass Pike. Trenni Kusnierek, anchor and reporter for NBC Sports Boston, joined BPR to talk about Tom Brady's departure from a press conference after reporters questioned him about his fitness guru. Congressman Stephen Lynch, ranking member of the Subcommittee on National Security, joined BPR to talk about the TSA's Quiet Skies program. Affordable housing advocate Bruce Marks is the founder and CEO of NACA, the Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America. He explained how to help low-income families get affordable homes. FRONTLINE’s Martin Smith talked about his new documentary, which looks at the border crisis. He is a reporter and one of the producers of the documentary, "SEPARATED: Children at the Border." Corby Kummer, senior editor at the Atlantic, columnist for New Republic and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition and Policy helped us celebrate the 50th birthday of McDonald's Big Mac We took your calls, asking you about the Big Mac’s big birthday. Are you still a fan of the fast food classic?

Food critic and Senior Editor at The Atlantic Corby Kummer joined Boston Public Radio Tuesday to talk about a new food hall that will open in downtown Boston in the spring of 2019

Our political roundtable with former Massachusetts Treasurer Shannon O'Brien *and political analyst *Charlie Chieppo took on the week's headlines. *Charles Sennott, *executive director of The GroundTruth Project, discussed President Donald Trump's meeting with the prime minister of Italy. Reporter *Wes Lowery *explained his latest investigation, "An Unequal Justice," about low arrest rates for homicides with black victims. We asked you about "Quiet Skies," the secret TSA program that targets and tracks travelers. Television expert *Bob Thompson *gave us his review of a new PBS documentary about Red Sox legend Ted Williams. We asked you about the state legislature dropping a statewide plastic bag ban. Are you disappointed that Massachusetts isn't leading on this issue? Or are you relieved that the ban was bagged? Poet *Richard Blanco *shared Zip Odes — or short poems about neighborhoods — written and submitted by BPR listeners.

The full broadcast of Boston Public Radio from Friday, June 27th, 2018. With construction booming, illuminated cranes becoming a substitute for public art and a glut of high rises creating concrete canyons, rents are getting higher, generations of families and small businesses are getting priced out of the city and neighborhoods are fighting off gentrification in a fight for their souls. We opened the lines to ask you: is this happening where you live? Then, the food industry is going loco for Necco workers who have been laid off. Boston Globe business columnist Shirley Leung explains. Did Fox And Friends get outfoxed by local lawmaker Barbara L’Italien? Beat the Press host Emily Rooney joins us for that and more. In the hit musical Hamilton, Aaron Burr makes a big point about how he’s going to “wait for it.” Now Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox are now in a bidding war to make Hamilton a movie… are you willing to “wait for it?” Instead of paying up to a thousand dollars to see it, it could cost you $12. We opened the lines to ask you: does seeing the real thing in real time matter? Then, another edition of Better Call Sean. If you’ve been scammed, ripped off or bamboozled, Boston Globe’s Sean Murphy is on it. He’s a Boston Globe reporter and the man behind The Fine Print column, which takes on some of the toughest consumer predicaments and solves them. He joins us to talk through his latest cases. Under The Radar host Callie Crossley is here to talk about her area of expertise, Hamilton and Omarosa. Then we’re floating head first into a gravity-defying news quiz with the folks behind the Museum of Science’s SPACE exhibit.

Food critic and Senior Editor at the Atlantic Corby Kummer joined Boston Public Radio to discuss why The FDA may be forcing plant-based milk manufacturers to stop labeling their products as milk.