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After 14 years with NPR and nearly a decade covering Congress, Andrea Seabrook left to start a blog and podcast called DecodeDC, in large part because she got fed up. Capitol Hill has become such a spin-zone that Seabrook wants to cut through the lies she felt she was being told as a reporter and to “stop coddling the lawmakers.” What’s really going on in Washington, what it all really means, ans a new approach to political journalism in the digital age.

Pulitzer Prize-winning music critic Tim Page on his work, his Asperger's syndrome, and the balancing act between the two.

NPR correspondent Margot Adler speaks to Tom Hall about paganism and journalism.

NPR ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos joins us for a conversation about transparency in journalism, journalistic ethics in today’s fast-paced media world, and NPR programming, its practices and policies.

The Obama administration is launching a pilot program in Baltimore that could halt deportations of illegal immigrants who haven’t committed a crime since they entered the U.S. We talk about the initiative with a Maryland legal advisor and an expert from the American Immigration Council.

Tom Hall remembers Nancy Haragan, a cultural leader in Baltimore.

NPR’s Neal Conan and Ensemble Galilei viola da gamba player Carolyn Surrick give Tom Hall a preview of this weekend’s performance of the poetry/music hybrid “A Winter’s Night.”

Outgoing NPR ombudsman Alicia Shepard visits our Baltimore studios and speaks to WYPR listeners about her three-year tenure in public radio's complaint department, particularly the sometimes tumultuous last six months.