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We get reaction to yesterday's Bipartisan Health Care Summit from JOSEPH ANTOS of the American Enterprise Institute and TIMOTHY JOST, Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University.

Filed under: health, politics |

Hour 2
In our continuing our coverage of yesterday's Bipartisan Health Care Summit, we'll check back with three guests we talked to over the past year — "New York Times" columnist DAVID LEONHARDT, WENDELL POTTER, Senior Fellow on Health care at the Center for Media and Democracy and ROBERT FIELD. Professor of Law and Professor of Health Management and Policy at Drexel University School of Public Health.

Filed under: health, politics |

Hour 1
President Obama called for a "new generation of clean, nuclear plants" in his state of the Union address. He has also promised $8.3 million in loan guarantees to build two new reactors in Georgia. While nuclear energy proponents cheer the possibility of a nuclear renaissance, others raise concerns with nuclear waste, safety, and high-costs. This hour, a debate about the future of nuclear power in the United States with ALAN HANSON, Executive Vice-President for technologies and used fuel management for AREVA Inc. and SHARON SQUASSONI, Senior Fellow and Director of the Proliferation Prevention Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Filed under: economy, environment, technology |

Hour 2
Education Professor MIKE ROSE is tired of hearing only negative rhetoric about public schools. He's also tired of hearing about the magic bullets to fix them. In his new book "Why School: Reclaiming Education for All of Us," Rose gets back to the basics exploring why education matters and celebrating what works. This hour, a conversation on the importance and the possibilities of public education with MIKE ROSE, professor in UCLA’s graduate School for Education and Information Studies.

Filed under: author, education, family issues, politics, social issues |

Hour 1
Which end of the leash to blame after dog attacks? And should there oughta be a law? Three pit bull attacks on humans over the weekend in Philadelphia, including the fatal mauling of a 38-year-old Fishtown woman by one of her mother's six pit bulls, have brought the controversial kind of dog back into the headlines. They have raised long-simmering arguments over who should be held responsible after a dog attack, the dog or the dog owner? Joining Marty to talk about the pros and cons of "breed-specific legislation" are DEBORA BRESCH, an attorney and the ASPCA's Director of Government Relations, Eastern Region; and COLLEEN LYNN, a survivor of a pit-bull attack and founder of DogsBite.org, a public education website about dangerous dogs – "specifically pit bull type dogs."

Filed under: crime, criminal justice, politics, social issues |

Hour 2
Playwright/writer/director CONOR McPHERSON (Tony Award-winning "The Seafarer") and actor CIARÁN HINDS ("There Will be Blood," HBO's "Rome") come in to talk about the supernatural new film, "The Eclipse," written by McPherson and starring Hinds, that takes place in Cobh, Ireland, during an annual literary festival.

Filed under: arts, author |

Hour 1
Peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian officials have been stalled since the beginning of the Obama administration due in large part to the issue of settlements. We explore the prospects for peace talks as well as the broader issue of U.S. policy towards Israel and the Middle East with DANIEL KURTZER, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Egypt and the S. Daniel Abraham Chair of Middle East Policy Studies at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. He served as a policy advisor to Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

Filed under: politics, world |

Hour 2
Lower Merion School District officials are staring at a lawsuit after a student alleged that he was spied upon by a Harriton High School administrator via the webcam on the school-issued laptop. This incident comes as e-privacy concerns grow about the tracking capability of smart phones and other handheld devices; social networking media using user information to sell advertising and products; and much more. We'll talk to guests including LILLIE CONEY, Associate Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a public interest research organization in Washington, DC.; and WITOLD WALCZAK, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania.

Filed under: education |

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Brigadier General H.R. McMASTER is one of the minds driving today’s Army. He’s been called one of the “warrior-intellectuals” surrounding General David Petraeus who are attempting to transform the U.S. military even as — or especially as — it fights two wars. McMaster has served in numerous command and staff positions in armor and cavalry units in the United States and Germany. In 2005 and 2006, he led the pacification of Tal Afar in Southern Iraq, a success that formed part of the blueprint for the Surge of 2007, and what many perceive as ultimate "success" in Iraq. He is currently serving as special assistant to the commander of the Multinational Force in Iraq. He earned a Silver Star in the first Gulf War in Iraq, and his experience there became the basis for a book of nonfiction by best-selling author Tom Clancy, called "Armored Cav." And his doctoral dissertation, a merciless dissection of military brass lies during the Vietnam War, became a 1997 best-seller called "Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam." General McMaster will address an audience at the National Constitution Center next weekend as part of the Peter Jennings Project for Journalists and the Constitution, and he’s our guest today on "Radio Times."

Filed under: author, military, politics, world |

Hour 2
Journalist SANA BUTLER devoted ten years to chronicling the lives of the last living children of slaves in an effort to understand how, with no experience of a normal family, American slaves went on to build their lives and become husbands and wives and fathers and mothers. Butler, the great-great granddaughter of emancipated slaves details her experiences and the conversations she had in a new book, Sugar of the Crop. It’s a story of enormous strength and resistance.

Filed under: author, parenting, social issues |