Radio Times

Guest: Mark Joseph Stern

States can now purge their voter rolls of citizens who have not voted or opted out of voting for a two year period. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of this practice which has been in use in Ohio but was challenged by voting rights advocates who claim such laws affect minority voters and will increase disenfranchisement. We’re joined by MARK JOSEPH STERN, who covers courts and law for Slate, who will tell us about the decision and the impact it will have on future elections.

Guest: Robert Field

The Trump administration announced that it would not defend the Affordable Care Act against a recent challenge to the law led the state of Texas. The Department of Justice sided with the states that argue that the provision guaranteeing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions is unconstitutional.  Democrats say this is yet another attempt to dismantle the law.  ROBERT FIELD, law and health policy professor at Drexel University, explains what this news means for the health of the ACA, states, insurance markets and individuals covered.

Guest: Christopher Sands

Relations between the U.S. and Canada are rocky these days, particularly following the G7 summit and Trump’s tweet calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is “very dishonest and weak.”  The Trump administration has stalled NAFTA trade negotiations and imposed steel and aluminum tariffs, both of which have heightened tensions with one of our closest allies and trade partners.  CHRISTOPHER SANDS, director of the Center for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins University explains why Trump and Trudeau are at odds, what the conflict is really all about and if there’s a way out.

Guests: John Tierney, Trudy Rubin, Michael Green

President Trump met Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim and signed a preliminary denationalization agreement this morning. The lead up to the long-anticipated summit was a rocky one, but the final result was an unconventional meeting that marks the first time a sitting American President has met face-to-face with the leader of the DPRK.  Today on the show, we’ll go over what happened at the summit, the agreement, what to expect from the two countries and our allies moving forward. Joining us is JOHN TIERNEY, Executive Director of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and former Congressman, MICHAEL GREEN, senior vice president for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a professor at Georgetown University, and TRUDY RUBIN, who writes the “Worldview” column for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Guests: Jonathan Caspi, Geoffrey Greif

Our relationships with our siblings are often the longest we will ever have. They can also be the messiest. This bond, or lack thereof, has an enormous impact over our lives – it can affect our personality, our health, and our happiness. This hour we’ll talk about managing our sibling relationships as an adult, why they are often so complicated, and if they can be rebooted later in life.  JONATHAN CASPI, a family therapist and professor at Montclair State University, and GEOFFREY GREIF, professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and author of Adult Sibling Relationships are our guests.

Guest: Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Middle-of-the-night tweets with errant capitalization and grammar, vitriolic insults, flat out denials of known truths: We have never had a president who communicates quite like Donald Trump. KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of FactCheck.org, joins Marty for a conversation about the ways Trump’s rhetoric helped him win the election, and may be hurting him during his presidency.

Guest: Bassem Youssef

BASSEM YOUSSEF, dubbed the “Jon Stewart of the Arab World,” comes in to talk about his journey from heart surgeon to satirist during the Egyptian Revolution–from his early YouTube skits that he filmed in his laundry room, to hosting the most popular show in the Egypt AlBernameg, to his arrest for insulting President Morsi in 2013. Youssef offers his satirical take on the Arab Spring and how he uses comedy to confront the corruption and hypocrisy in Egypt. Marty will also talk to him about his book, Revolution for Dummies, his stage show, “The Joke is Mightier than the Sword,” and his new podcast “ReMade in America.”

President Trump disinvited the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles from the customary visit to the White House. Trump issued a statement over the weekend saying that because not all players were planning to attend the event, he was scrapping the whole thing and continued his attacks on player who choose to kneel for the National Anthem – an act intended to  bring awareness to police brutality against African-Americans. Joining us to give us his analysis of the situation is Philadelphia Inquirer columnist, MARCUS HAYES.

Guests: Livia Albeck-Ripka, Frank Chimera

Are you a conscientious recycler, someone who scrubs their aluminum cans and glass containers before tossing them in the bin? Do you know the plastic recycling number codes by heart? Well, now a new rule by China might make some of these efforts moot. China, which took a lot of our recyclables in the past, is no longer accepting “foreign garbage.” This is having big ramifications for the industry and could mean that our recyclables end up in landfills. Today we’ll talk about what the China ban means for recycling, waste management and the environment. We’ll also cover the dos and don’ts of recycling to ensure they don’t get diverted to the trash – no greasy pizza boxes, please.  Our guests are LIVIA ALBECK-RIPKA, freelance climate and environment reporter, and FRANK CHIMERA, senior manager of municipal sales for Republic Services.

Guests: Tom McAllister, Steven Berkowitz

The aftermath of a school shooting is the subject of Philadelphia author and Temple professor TOM McALLISTER’S second novel, How to Be Safe. A recently fired English teacher briefly becomes a suspect in the shooting and as her life is turned upside down, she watches the all too familiar and inadequate responses to school shootings play out in the media and across the nation. McAllister joins us to talk his new book and why he chose to take on a school shooting, the news media and America’s gun culture. Then, adolescent psychiatrist STEVEN BERKOWITZ, from the University of Pennsylvania, discusses how adolescents cope with trauma and its enduring impact on their lives and the psychological factors that can lead someone to commit horrible acts.