We've just come through a 14 month battle over health care reform. Can immigration reform, a huge undertaking, be done by the 2010 midterms? "It's not going to happen this year; it's not going to happen next year; and it won't happen the year after that," says Jan Ting of Temple’s Beasley School of Law. "The reality is, our immigration system, while not perfect, is not broken. We admit every year, more legal immigrants with a clear path to full citizenship.

What impulses are motivating teens to join violent flash mobs? Although some believe teens are bored or seeking to gain a reputation for toughness, others wonder if too much police presence in response to reports of flash mobs worsens things. Molefi Kete Asante, a professor of African-American studies at Temple, said that "rather than calling it a flash mob, I think that what occurred was young people just got out of hand in reaction to the presence of police."