The Affordable Care Act was stress tested by a pandemic and a presidential administration that actively worked to dismantle it -- so what is the current state of the healthcare law? What could we see from the Biden administration to strengthen it?

The city of Philadelphia is looking at getting police officers a new tool for taking down suspects. It's called the BolaWrap, it's nonlethal, and it's a device a little bigger than a smartphone that shoots a Kevlar cord with weighted hooks on both ends.

To say the field has changed would be a complete understatement -- the tools of surveillance in place today would look like farfetched science fiction to all but the most inventive mystery writers of the previous generations.

Big space news this week, as NASA landed the rover Perseverance on Mars.

The bad news: jobless claims were astronomically high this week. The good news: it’s looking like whatever the opposite of trickle down economics is might be the greatest economic policy ever, after emergency stimulus checks caused retail sales to go bonkers.

Conventional wisdom would lead you to believe that people are counting down the minutes until they can take off their masks and throw the hand sanitizer into the garbage fire. But a new national survey shows that's not the case.

One of the most visible and contentious footprints left by the Trump presidency was the trade war with China. So now that the Trump presidency is over and with the benefit of hindsight, what did the trade war accomplish?

It's become pretty clear that the clean energy 'revolution' is not only here, it has eclipsed its activist roots and is now firmly being propelled by economics.

President Trump was not convicted of inciting the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol, which wasn't a surprise to anyone who's been paying attention to the state of American politics recently. But it was perhaps a little surprising that 57 senators, including seven Republicans, thought he should be held responsible by the Senate.

When the vaccines were first announced and started to get distributed, it felt like the end was finally in sight. But it hasn't really gone the way we thought, just like everything else in this pandemic.

According to a new survey from US News & World Report, there's a whole lot of people who say they've either been a victim of financial infidelity or committed it.

Young adults are leaving college with staggering amounts of debt in student loans. And it seems like that college degree means a lot less today than it meant a few decades ago when it comes to job prospects and projected income.

The first computer was built at the University of Pennsylvania. It's called the ENIAC. And it's about to celebrate its 75th birthday.

And is it time to talk about inflation, or is that something to worry about after the average American recovers economically?

In Pennsylvania, frustrations are mounting at just about every level over the distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations, from individuals and families to communities and politicians. So why can't we seem to get this right?

We broke the wrong kind of record in 2020 -- a new report from the group Oxfam shows that for the first time, inequality has grown everywhere during the pandemic.

Ever since the start of the pandemic, the people on the wrong side of the K-shaped recovery have taken it on the chin. So many people have lost income and savings, and the number of people falling behind on the rent or the mortgage is truly hard to fathom.

How did the filibuster evolve to become the tool of obstruction it's used as today, and what are the consequences of getting rid of it all together?

There's already a lot of people talking about the minimum wage and arguing whether we should or shouldn't bump it up -- so we wanted to sort of bypass the "should we or shouldn't we" of it all and talk about the issue from the math side.

Why we use prisons that turn profits in the United States and what it says that the government wants out.

It's been a busy week -- jobs numbers, new unemployment figures, stimulus development, questions about student debt forgiveness, and why you should care about the treasury yield curve.

How are advertisers thinking differently this year, and how have the messages they're sending changed?

If you've been working from home at all for the past year you've probably benefited from having a little more flexibility in your schedule.

What's next for Bezos, and for Amazon, after the CEO of one of the most important companies ever decided to step down?

KYW Newsradio's Jim Melwert asked Castor about the historic nature of the task ahead of him and why he thinks that the former President shouldn't be held responsible for the riot at the Capitol on January 6.