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Need some potent potables to mollify your family this Thanksgiving? Boston Wine School's Jonathon Alsop is on hand to help you properly pair wines with…

America has a complicated relationship with religious dogma. It inspires reverence and provokes revolt. The nation's oldest living president, 90 year old…

It's a story that, by now, is tragically familiar: an American hostage, alone with his captor in the desert, executed on camera by militants of the…

Charlie Sennott drops by to discuss ISIS' execution of a US Aid worker, gives us a G-20 debrief, and previews GroundTruth's investigative reporting on how…

Need a refresher course on world history? We've got you covered. Or rather, the folks of "The Folklorist"—a New England Emmy-winning history show on…

The sleepy town of Westminster, Massachusetts made waves this week when it proposed a ban on the sale of tobacco products, including cigarettes. That got…

Today on Boston Public Radio: Rep. Joe Kennedy called in to discuss yesterday’s impeachment vote, and his thoughts on the value of the electoral college. Former Suffolk County Sheriff and Secretary of Public Safety Andrea Cabral discussed yesterday's impeachment vote and a recent interview with Harvey Weinstein in the New York Post. Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker joined us for our monthly “Ask the Governor” segment. Harvard law professor Martha Minow discussed her new book “When Should Law Forgive?” Christopher Kimball, founder of Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street, discussed his new book, “Milk Street: The New Rules: Recipes That Will Change the Way You Cook" We opened our lines to callers to hear about your unusual and bizarre holiday recipes.

Today on Boston Public Radio: We aired live audio from the House impeachment debate and discussed the proceedings with callers.

Food writer Corby Kummer took Boston Public Radio behind the scenes of his end-of-year list of the best cookbooks on Tuesday. The list appears in The Atlantic and is a diverse collection of food literature. "I tried for cultural variety, I tried for something that's educational, and I tried for something we don't know, I don't know, in addition to the cook book literature," he said. "The ones I picked were stuff I didn't know about, and was so excited to learn." Kummer described one of his selections, "Jubilee: Recipes From Two Centuries of African American Cooking" by Toni Tipton-Martin, as more than a cookbook, but a piece of "deep scholarship." "She decided to do a beautiful out and out picture book," he said. "The whole book was delayed two years because of her insistence that the food stylists and photographers be African American. It's been so hard for them to break into the publishing biz and food styling biz. It took a long time, the publisher was willing to wait, they did it, and it's a gorgeous book." Corby Kummer is executive director of the Food and Society policy program at the Aspen Institute, a senior editor at The Atlantic and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy

Today on Boston Public Radio: We opened lines to talk with callers about how impeachment is impacting your holiday cheer. NBC Sports Boston Reporter Trenni Kusnierek discussed SpyGate 2.0 for the Patriots, and an intersex runner’s struggle to compete in the face of regulatory pushback. MIT economist Jon Gruber discussed his latest research on how we choose our health plans, and the bigger question of whether average people have too much freedom over their healthcare plans. Atlantic food writer Corby Kummer discussed his list of the best cookbooks of 2019, and a virtual reality dining experience in New York City. Former Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville discussed how Massachusetts might pay for its enormous $1.5 Billion education funding bill, and a California lawsuit alleging that SAT and ACT scores unjustly favor wealthier students. CNN’s John King discussed the House's upcoming impeachment vote, along with other political headlines. Gold Dust Orphans founder Ryan Landry called in to promote the last weekend of his troupe’s production of “Christmas on Uranus."

Today on Boston Public Radio: Political columnist Jennifer Braceras and Suffolk University’s John Nucci discussed impeachment’s impact on the 2020 presidential race and questions of safety at the MBTA, as part of their politics roundup. WGBH News Analyst and GroundTruth Project CEO Charlie Sennott discussed Boris Johnson’s election win, the recession of democracy, and some key takeaways from the Afghanistan Papers published in last week's Washington Post. TV writer Bob Thompson reviewed "Moonlight Sonata,” “Work in Progress,” and discussed controversies over a recent Hallmark ad. We opened lines to callers to hear your thoughts on Hallmark pulling their ad featuring a same-sex couple. Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett Price, hosts of WGBH’s All Rev’d Up, discussed the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, and President Trump’s executive order on Judaism and anti-semitism. Tech writer Andy Ihnatko gave some last-minute digital gift ideas for the holiday season, and discussed privacy concerns around the smart speaker industry. Jonathan Alsop, founder of the Boston Wine School, discussed holiday wines and champagnes.