Hour 1
This week saw the passage of the biggest domestic legislation in a few generations, in a narrow partisan vote, when President Obama signed the landmark health care bill into law. It also saw Republicans launch a campaign to repeal the Democratic agenda and Obamacare, as well as a rash of threats that caused great consternation in the Beltway and beyond. Joining Marty to make sense of it all are MATTHEW YGLESIAS, a Fellow and blogger at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, and CHRIS STIREWALT, political editor, columnist and blogger for the Washington Examiner.

Filed under: economy, health, politics, social issues |

Hour 2
Last Saturday, hundreds of kids gathered in a flash mob on South Street in Philadelphia, disrupting traffic, damaging property, and occasionally assaulting pedestrians. On Wednesday afternoon, the police foiled another attempted flash mob in West Philadelphia. In recent months, a number of flash mob incidents have wrecked havoc in Center City and South Street, scaring residents and damaging the city’s reputation. This hour, Everett Gillison, Philadelphia’s Deputy Mayor for Public Safety, and Howard Stevenson, Associate Professor and Chair in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, discuss what’s behind these flash mobs, why they turn destructive, and what the city is doing about it.

Filed under: crime, criminal justice, family issues, parenting, school issues, social issues, teens |