Host Emily Scott and guest Bryan McTiernan discuss the MTA budget, some labor history, and New York's Child Victim's Act; a police shooting in Philadelphia and an Amnesty International travel advisory for the US; Israel moving to bar two members of the US Congress from entering the country over their support of the BDS movement, a suicide bombing in Kabul, and the role of the US in the Middle East; and a little bit of good news re: cures for ebola and drug-resistant tuberculosis.