After long hours of spirited debate, President Obama and Congressional lawmakers failed to reach any substantive compromises on health care legislation. Republicans were clearly frustrated with the president's proposals and repeatedly suggested scrapping the legislation and starting over again. Democrats insisted that was not an option because too much progress has already been made.

• New York Times Olympics editor Jason Stallman joins us for a look ahead to the women's figure skating long program and helps us tally up the total number of medals won by the U.S.

GOOD WEEK/BAD WEEK:  Along with our friends at The Week Magazine we’ll give you the score.  Who had a good week?  Who had a bad week?  We found that it was good to be a typo, but a very bad week to be Cleveland, Ohio.

In the nightmarish chaos that ensued after Hurricane Katrina, the city turned to police for order and protection. But on Wednesday, it became evident that trust was violently broken as some New Orleans police officers allegedly acted more like a lawless gang.

A suicide bomber detonated explosives near Kabul's shopping center, two more blasts followed. Two of the attackers are said to be shot dead. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack, saying that they had deliberately targeted foreign aid workers. The population is concerned that if their own government can't protect the capital, how can they protect the rest of the country? Martin Patience, BBC correspondent joins us from Kabul with more.

A little over a week remains until Oscar night. With ten best picture nominees this year, not to mention a full roster of five animated features (on top of all the other categories), there's not a lot of time to see what's on the ballot. Newsday critic and Takeaway film contributor Rafer Guzman fills us in on which movies are must-sees and which are okay to avoid.

All week we’ve been exploring the mechanics of a broken legislative body in our series, “Frustration Nation.” We wrap up the series with a look at the solutions to government gridlock. Can we move away from filibusters? Should we rehaul our election rules? Should we get rid of the Senate altogether?

• CONGRESS TAKEOUT: Takeway's Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich recaps the Heath Care Summit and why Rep. Rangel is in the hot seat.
• OLYMPICS: New York Times Olympics editor Jason Stallman looks ahead to today's games.
• RESPONSES:  Listeners had a lot to say about trying to teach civics to high school students who don't have a lot of faith in government.

With 21,000 Haitian American students, Miami-Dade schools have struggled with the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake perhaps more than any other school system in the United States. 

New York Times reporter Eric Dash normally covers the fast-paced world of Wall Street, banking and finance.  But he recently discovered that Wall Street isn't only interested in cut-throat trading and rising markets. Wall Street has been captivated by Olympic curling.

A few weeks back we held a Takeaway dog show to coincide with the Westminster Kennel Dog Show and got a huge response from listeners.  Hundreds of people sent in their photos of their canines and you voted for the winner.  

Analyzing and fact checking yesterday's health care summit.