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In Afghan culture, there is a hidden practice called "bacha posh," in which parents raise their daughters as sons to afford them the freedom denied to them as females and to protect family status. Award-winning journalist Jenny Nordberg chronicles the phenomenon in, "The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan." 

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Baltimore Business Journal reporter Kevin Litten and local architect Klaus Philipsen of ArchPlan, Inc. scope out Baltimore's busy commercial and residential development scene.

Critics Linda DeLibero and Christopher Llewellyn Reed join us to discuss the life and career of one of Hollywood’s original “it girls,” Barbara Stanwyck. We’ll also be joined by Stanwyck biographer Victoria Wilson, author of "A Life of Barbara Stanwyck: Steel-True 1907-1940." 

A look at the region's news stories with the reporters and editors who covered them. This hour: Should President Obama grant clemency to Jonathan Pollard, who was sentenced to life nearly three decades ago for spying for Israel? The Pollard case has connections to Maryland and Baltimore. It surfaces from time to time, and this week it became part of Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to keep alive the fraying Israel-Palestine peace negotiations. Today we’ll speak to University of Baltimore law professor Kenneth Lasson about Jonathan Pollard.

News of bankruptcy last week for the parent company of The Daily Record, published in Baltimore for 125 years, came on the heels of the acquisition of the City Paper, the alternative weekly, by the Baltimore Sun Media Group.

Streaming services Spotify, Pandora, YouTube and iTunes Radio have transformed the music industry by allowing consumers to listen to whatever they want, whenever they want it, at almost no cost.

A look at the region's latest news stories with the reporters and editors who covered them.

As we approach the March 31 enrollment deadline for the Affordable Care Act, Dr. Mark Komrad, psychiatrist at Sheppard Pratt Hospital, discusses changes to mental health coverage under the new law. Plus, a look at what we've learned about the Columbia Mall shooter and Sandy Hook mass-killer Adam Lanza.

ADDITIONAL READING:

Andrew Solomon's New Yorker piece on Peter Lanza