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Thursday 9/2/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100902E Why is it that organisms sacrifice themselves for the benefit of others? After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the 150-year history of altruism, a theoretical problem that lies at the core of behavioral biology, sociobiology, and evolutionary psychology. Guest: Oren Harman, Chair, Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society, Bar Ilan University Author, "The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness"	Listen
Thursday 9/2/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100902E Why is it that organisms will often sacrifice themselves for the benefit of others? After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look back at the history of altruism... how a theoretical problem lies at the core of behavioral biology, sociobiology, and evolutionary psychology. Guest: Oren Harman, Chair, Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society, Bar Ilan University Author, "The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness"	Listen
Thursday 9/2/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100902D After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at new evidence that shows the worst effects of the B-P oil spill are yet to come. Guest: Julia Whitty, environmental correspondent, Mother Jones. Author, "Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean".	Listen
Wednesday 9/1/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100901E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Guests: - Sally McMillen, Professor of History, Davidson University. Author, “Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement” - Christine Lidbury, Executive Director, Wisconsin Women's Council.	Listen
Wednesday 9/1/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100901E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Guests: - Sally McMillen, Professor of History, Davidson University. Author, “Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement” - Christine Lidbury, Executive Director, Wisconsin Women's Council.	Listen
Wednesday 9/1/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100901D After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss President Obama’s address to the nation last night. Guests: 9:00 – Jason D. Brozek, Assistant Professor of Government and Stephen E. Scarff Professor of International Affairs, Lawrence University. 9:30 - Judith Yaphe, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University.	Listen
Tuesday 8/31/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100831E After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest historian talks about the 1896 New York heat wave, and how then Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt handled those ten days. Guest: Edward P. Kohn, Assistant Professor of American History and Chair, American Culture and Literature Department, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Author, “Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt.”	Listen
Tuesday 8/31/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100831E After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest historian talks about the 1896 New York heat wave, and how then Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt handled those ten days. Guest: Edward P. Kohn, Assistant Professor of American History and Chair, American Culture and Literature Department, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Author, “Hot Time in the Old Town: The Great Heat Wave of 1896 and the Making of Theodore Roosevelt.”	Listen
Tuesday 8/31/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100831D After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest take your calls about what you want, or think, President Obama should say during his address to the nation regarding Iraq and Afghanistan. Guest: Paul Pillar, professor of security studies at Georgetown University, author of “Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy”	Listen
Monday 8/30/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100830E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests look at the history and the future of Social Security, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this month. Guests: - June Hopkins, associate professor of history, Armstrong Atlantic State University, author of Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer - Nancy Altman, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pension Rights Center and author of The Battle for Social Security	Listen
Monday 8/30/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100830E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests look at the history and the future of Social Security, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this month. Guests: - June Hopkins, associate professor of history, Armstrong Atlantic State University, author of Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer - Nancy Altman, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pension Rights Center and author of The Battle for Social Security	Listen
Monday 8/30/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100830D After nine, former RNC chairman and President Bush adviser, Ed Gillespie, joins Kathleen Dunn to discuss the week in politics. Guest: Ed Gillespie, former chairman, Republican National Committee. Founder, Ed Gillespie Strategies.	Listen
Thursday 8/26/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100826E After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guests argues that we need deeper investigations into the 5% of UFO sightings that can’t easily be explained away as ordinary phenomena. Guest: Leslie Kean, author, “UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record.”	Listen
Thursday 8/26/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100826E After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guests argues that we need deeper investigations into the 5% of UFO sightings that can’t easily be explained away as ordinary phenomena. Guest: Leslie Kean, author, “UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record.”	Listen
Thursday 8/26/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100826D After nine, join Kathleen Dunn for the August Open Line. You're invited to call, email, or post a comment on the Kathleen Dunn Facebook page with your program ideas and guest suggestions.	Listen
Wednesday 8/25/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100825E Bill Nye "The Science Guy" joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten, to discuss the latest science news – from Jupiter being pelted by a meteor to the passing of the Star Gazer, Jack Horkheimer. Guests: - Bill Nye "The Science Guy," engineer, comedian, author, educator, and inventor. Emmy award-winning television writer, producer, and host. Vice president, The Planetary Society. - Sanjay S. Limaye, Planetary Scientist, and Director, Office of Space Science Education, UW-Madison.	Listen
Wednesday 8/25/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100825E Bill Nye "The Science Guy" joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten, to discuss the latest science news – from Jupiter being pelted by a meteor to the passing of the Star Gazer, Jack Horkheimer. Guests: - Bill Nye "The Science Guy," engineer, comedian, author, educator, and inventor. Emmy award-winning television writer, producer, and host. Vice president, The Planetary Society. - Sanjay S. Limaye, Planetary Scientist, and Director, Office of Space Science Education, UW-Madison.	Listen
Wednesday 8/25/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100825D After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests take a look at the state of mental health care in Wisconsin... in light of an investigation into the Milwaukee County Mental Health Complex by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Guests: - Meg Kissinger, investigative reporter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Peter Hoeffel, Executive Director, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Greater Milwaukee	Listen
Tuesday 8/24/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100824E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at the life and legacy of US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. Guest: Jeffrey Rosen, professor of law at The George Washington University and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic	Listen
Tuesday 8/24/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100824E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at the life and legacy of US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. Guest: Jeffrey Rosen, professor of law at The George Washington University and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic	Listen
Tuesday 8/24/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100824D After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine the latest on the egg recall linked to two Iowa farms, and what this says about food safety in America. Guests: - Caroline Smith DeWaal, Director of the food safety program at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). - Douglas Powell, associate professor of food safety, Kansas State University. Publisher, barfblog.com. - Darrell Trambel, poultry veterinarian, Iowa State University.	Listen
Monday 8/23/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100823E We all know the "fifty-nifty states," but what about those that didn’t quite make it? State names like "New Sweden" ... "Yazoo" ... "Transylvania"? After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest take a trip back to the history of American geography to re-discover the states that never-came-to-be. Guest: Michael Trinklein, historian, writer, producer, and author, “Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It.”	Listen
Monday 8/23/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100823E We all know the "fifty-nifty states," but what about those that didn’t quite make it? State names like "New Sweden" ... "Yazoo" ... "Transylvania"? After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest take a trip back to the history of American geography to re-discover the states that never-came-to-be. Guest: Michael Trinklein, historian, writer, producer, and author, “Lost States: True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It.”	Listen
Monday 8/23/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100823D After nine, it's the regular All Things Political show, where Kathleen Dunn and her guest look back at the week that was in Washington. Guest: Glenn Thrush, congressional reporter, Politico	Listen
Thursday 8/19/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100819E Why do we like what we like? After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest explore the science of how Pleasure works. In a recent study, wine experts preferred a wine they were told was expensive over one that was supposedly cheap... when actually it was the same wine. Guest: Paul Bloom, professor of psychology, Yale University. Author, “How Pleasure Works: The New Science Of Why We Like What We Like”.	Listen
Thursday 8/19/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100819E Why do we like what we like? After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest explore the science of how Pleasure works. In a recent study, wine experts preferred a wine they were told was expensive over one that was supposedly cheap... when actually it was the same wine. Guest: Paul Bloom, professor of psychology, Yale University. Author, “How Pleasure Works: The New Science Of Why We Like What We Like”.	Listen
Thursday 8/19/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100819D After nine, Kathleen Dunn talks politics with Newsweek magazine Senior Editor Jonathan Alter. Guest: Jonathan Alter, Senior Editor, Newsweek. Author, “The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope” and “The Promise: President Obama, Year One”. Mr. Alter has a book signing, 7pm Thursday, Todd Wehr Auditorium, Concordia University.	Listen
Wednesday 8/18/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100818E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss a Madison-based microfinancing program that gives people the opportunity to promote savings before credit as a means to overcome poverty. Guest: Jenny Bernhardt, Development Communications Manager, World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU).	Listen
Wednesday 8/18/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100818E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss a Madison-based microfinancing program that gives people the opportunity to promote savings before credit as a means to overcome poverty. Guest: Jenny Bernhardt, Development Communications Manager, World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU).	Listen
Wednesday 8/18/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100818D The Milwaukee Irish Fest kicks off their 30th year of bringing Ireland's culture and music to Wisconsin. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the festival and Irish folklore. Guest: Mick Moloney, author, musician, and folklorist. In 1999 he was awarded the National Heritage Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.	Listen
Tuesday 8/17/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100817E After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest talks about what it means to be wrong. She says that error is both a given... and a gift... one that can transform our worldview, our relationships, and most profoundly, ourselves. Guest: Kathryn Schulz, freelance journalist. Author, "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error".	Listen
Tuesday 8/17/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100817E After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest talks about what it means to be wrong. She says that error is both a given... and a gift... one that can transform our worldview, our relationships, and most profoundly, ourselves. Guest: Kathryn Schulz, freelance journalist. Author, "Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error".	Listen
Tuesday 8/17/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100817D After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests look at the devastating floods in Pakistan that have claimed nearly fifteen-hundred lives. Guest: Waqar Gillani, staff reporter, The News on Sunday. Contributor, The New York Times. Guest: Daanish Mustafa, Professor of Geography, King’s College, London.	Listen
Monday 8/16/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100816E Across the nation, many are protesting the construction of mosques, including one in Sheboygan. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the controversy. Guest: Othman Atta, attorney. Past president, Islamic Center of Milwaukee.	Listen
Monday 8/16/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100816E Across the nation, many are protesting the construction of mosques, including one in Sheboygan. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the controversy. Guest: Othman Atta, attorney. Past president, Islamic Center of Milwaukee.	Listen
Monday 8/16/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100816D After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest recap all the major political headlines. Guest: Julian E. Zelizer, Professor of History and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Author, "Arsenal of Democracy: The Politics of National Security - From World War II to the War on Terrorism."	Listen
Thursday 8/12/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100812E In this materialistic culture, when does an appetite for stuff cross the line and reach an unhealthy level? After ten, Kathleen Dunn speaks with one of the authors of a book about compulsive hoarding. Guest: Randy Frost, Professor of Psychology at Smith College, co-author of “Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things”	Listen
Thursday 8/12/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100812E In our materialistic culture, when does an appetite for "stuff" cross the line and reach an unhealthy level? After ten, Kathleen Dunn talks with one of the authors of a book about compulsive hoarding. Guest: Randy Frost, Professor of Psychology, Smith College. Co-author, “Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things”.	Listen
Thursday 8/12/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100812D After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the philosophy behind school grades, and the decision by a school district in New Jersey to eliminate the "D" from their grading system, saying it's simply not useful in society. Guests: - Larrie Reynolds, Superintendent, Mount Olive School District. - Steve Correia, Associate Professor of Education, St. Norbert College.	Listen
Wednesday 8/11/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100811E After ten, Kathleen Dunn talks with one of the founders of Galaxy Zoo, an online astronomy project that invites the public to assist in classifying more than sixty-million galaxies. Guest: Chris Lintott, co-founder, Galaxy Zoo. Co-author, “Bang! The Complete History of the Universe”.	Listen
Wednesday 8/11/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100811E After ten, Kathleen Dunn talks with one of the founders of Galaxy Zoo, an online astronomy project that invites the public to assist in classifying more than sixty-million galaxies. Guest: Chris Lintott, co-founder, Galaxy Zoo. Co-author, “Bang! The Complete History of the Universe”.	Listen
Wednesday 8/11/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100811D The DREAM Act is proposed legislation that would grant temporary legal status to some high school graduates who came to the U.S. illegally before age sixteen. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss how students are affected by immigration reform. Guests: -Julia Preston, reporter, New York Times -Peggy Orchowski, Congressional Correspondent, Hispanic Outlook on Higher Education. Author, "Immigration and the American Dream: Battling the Political Hype and Hysteria"	Listen
Tuesday 8/10/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100810E After ten, Kathleen Dunn speaks with the first military woman in U.S. history to be appointed White House doctor, caring for presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Guest: Dr. Connie Mariano, former director of the White House medical unit. Author, “The White House Doctor: My Patients Were Presidents - A Memoir.”	Listen
Tuesday 8/10/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100810E After ten, Kathleen Dunn talks with the first military woman in U.S. history to be appointed White House doctor, caring for presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Guest: Dr. Connie Mariano, former director, White House medical unit. Author, “The White House Doctor: My Patients Were Presidents - A Memoir.”	Listen
Tuesday 8/10/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100810D After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at the latest on the California Proposition-Eight referendum... which banned same-sex marriage... and was recently ruled unconstitutional. Guest: Andrew Koppelman, Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University. Author, “Same Sex, Different States: When Same-Sex Marriages Cross State Lines”.	Listen
Monday 8/9/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100809E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss how college students successfully adapt and thrive in their new university environment. Guest: Joe Abhold, Director, University Counseling Center, UW Oshkosh.	Listen
Monday 8/9/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100809E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss how college students successfully adapt and thrive in their new university environment. Guest: Joe Abhold, Director, University Counseling Center, UW Oshkosh.	Listen
Monday 8/9/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100809D Kathleen Dunn– After nine, Kathleen Dunn returns from vacation as she and her guest look back at the week that was in Washington. Guest: Melinda Henneberger, Editor-in-Cheif of PoliticsDaily.com, author of "If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear"	Listen
Thursday 8/5/2010 10:00 PM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100805E On December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire on hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300. After ten, John Munson speaks with a historian who explains the political forces that led up to the massacre. Guest: Heather Cox Richardson, Professor in the Department of History, University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Author, “Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre.”	Listen
Thursday 8/5/2010 10:00 AM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100805E On December 29th, 1890, American troops opened fire on unarmed Lakota Sioux (lah-KO-tah SOO) men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300. After ten, John Munson's guest historian describes the political forces that led up to the Massacre at Wounded Knee. Guest: Heather Cox Richardson, Professor, Department of History, University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Author, “Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre.”	Listen
Thursday 8/5/2010 9:00 AM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100805D The "Made In China" stamp on products once seemed ubiquitous. After nine, John Munson and his guest look at the Chinese economy and why the reign of cheaply-made Chinese goods may be ending. Guest: Barry Naughton, Professor of Chinese Economy. Sokwanlok Chair of Chinese International Affairs, University of California-San Diego. Author, "The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth"	Listen
Wednesday 8/4/2010 10:00 PM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100804E After ten, John Munson’s guests recount how one east coast restaurateur waged "BBQ (barbecue) diplomacy" with North Korea. Guests: - Robert Egan, owner, Cubby's, a barbecue restaurant in Hackensack, New Jersey. - Kurt Pitzer, journalist, author, and commercial long-line fisherman. - Co-authors, “Eating with the Enemy: How I Waged Peace with North Korea from My BBQ Shack in Hackensack.”	Listen
Wednesday 8/4/2010 10:00 AM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100804E After ten, John Munson’s guests recount how one east coast restaurateur waged "BBQ (barbecue) diplomacy" with North Korea. Guests: - Robert Egan, owner, Cubby's, a barbecue restaurant in Hackensack, New Jersey. - Kurt Pitzer, journalist, author, and commercial long-line fisherman. - Co-authors, “Eating with the Enemy: How I Waged Peace with North Korea from My BBQ Shack in Hackensack.”	Listen
Wednesday 8/4/2010 9:00 AM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100804D After nine, John Munson’s guest is N-P-R correspondent Daniel Zwerdling (ZWERD-ling). He describes his latest investigation, which found that tens-of-thousands of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have undiagnosed and untreated traumatic brain injuries. Guest: Daniel Zwerdling, National Desk Correspondent, NPR	Listen
Tuesday 8/3/2010 10:00 PM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100803E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest remember the man from New Orleans who changed the face of American music... jazz trumpeter and singer LouisArmstrong. Guest: Terry Teachout, Drama Critic, Wall Street Journal. Author, “Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong.” (Rebroadcast 2/4/10)	Listen
Tuesday 8/3/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100803E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest remember the man from New Orleans who changed the face of American music... jazz trumpeter and singer LouisArmstrong. Guest: Terry Teachout, Drama Critic, Wall Street Journal. Author, “Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong.” (Rebroadcast 2/4/10)	Listen
Tuesday 8/3/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100803D After nine, historian and journalist Evan Thomas joins Kathleen Dunn to discuss his latest book, “The War Lovers.” Guest: Evan Thomas, Editor-at-Large, “Newsweek.” Author of several books, “Sea of Thunder,” “The Very Best Men,” and most recently, “The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898.” (Rebroadcast from 5/25/10)	Listen
Monday 8/2/2010 10:00 PM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100802E After ten, John Munson is joined by a theoretical physicist and noted String theorist, who says Science has been looking at gravity the wrong way... that gravity... as we understand it... doesn’t exist. Guest: Erik Verlinde, Professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam.	Listen
Monday 8/2/2010 10:00 AM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100802E After ten, John Munson is joined by a theoretical physicist and noted String theorist, who says Science has been looking at gravity the wrong way... that gravity... as we understand it... doesn’t exist. Guest: Erik Verlinde, Professor, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam.	Listen
Monday 8/2/2010 9:00 AM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100802D After nine, John Munson and his guest discuss the latest headlines from Washington... and preview tomorrow’s election primaries in Kansas, Michigan, and Missouri. Guest: Michael S. Lynch, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Kansas.	Listen
Thursday 7/29/2010 10:00 PM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100729D After ten, John Munson’s guests examine why the European economy seems to be on the rise, while in the United States, progress seems to have stalled. Guests: 10:00 - Dan Gross, Senior Editor at Newsweek, author of "Pop! Why Bubbles Are Great for the Economy" 10:30 - Robert Reich, Professor of Public Policy at the University of California-Berkeley, former United States Secretary of Labor	Listen
Thursday 7/29/2010 10:00 AM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100729E After ten, John Munson's guest recounts one of the most elaborate deceptions of World War II - a plan to disguise the impending Allied invasion of Sicily, framed around the body of a dead man. Guest: Ben Macintyre, columnist and Associate Editor, “The Times.” Author, “Agent Zigzag: The True Wartime Story of Eddie Chapman: Lover, Traitor, Hero, Spy,” and, “Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War II.”	Listen
Thursday 7/29/2010 9:00 AM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100729D After nine, John Munson’s guests examine why the European economy seems to be on the rise, while in the United States, progress seems to have stalled. Guests: 9:00 - Dan Gross, Senior Editor at Newsweek, author of "Pop! Why Bubbles Are Great for the Economy" 9:30 - Robert Reich, Professor of Public Policy at the University of California-Berkeley, former United States Secretary of Labor	Listen
Wednesday 7/28/2010 10:00 PM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100728E After ten, John Munson’s guests examine food production in the world today, by looking at current agricultural technology, population, climate change, and the global economy. Guests: - Andrew Rimas, Managing Editor, “The Improper Bostonian”. - Evan D.G. Fraser, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. - Co-authors, “Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations” .	Listen
Wednesday 7/28/2010 10:00 AM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100728E After ten, John Munson’s guests examine food production in the world today, by looking at current agricultural technology, population, climate change, and the global economy. Guests: - Andrew Rimas, Managing Editor, “The Improper Bostonian”. - Evan D.G. Fraser, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. - Co-authors, “Empires of Food: Feast, Famine, and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations”.	Listen
Wednesday 7/28/2010 9:00 AM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100728D John Munson’s guest, after nine, says it's ethically wrong to talk about climate change in regards to U.S. interests alone; rather, we need to keep in mind that as Americans we have duties, responsibilities, and obligations to other nations to reduce the threat of global warming. Guests: Donald A. Brown, Associate Professor, Environmental Ethics Science, and Law, and the Director, Collaborative Program on Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change, Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University.	Listen
Tuesday 7/27/2010 10:00 PM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100727E After ten, John Munson looks at the Wikileaks documents regarding the war in Afghanistan with a New York Times reporter covering the story and a defense expert who advised retired general Stanley McChrystal about the nearly nine-year-old war. Guests: - Jane Verlez, reporter, New York Times - Anthony Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies	Listen
Tuesday 7/27/2010 10:00 AM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100727E After ten, John Munson conducts of straw poll for who you plan to vote for during Wisconsin's gubernatorial election.	Listen
Tuesday 7/27/2010 9:00 AM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100727D After nine, John Munson looks at the Wikileaks documents regarding the war in Afghanistan with a New York Times reporter covering the story and a defense expert who advised retired general Stanley McChrystal about the nearly nine-year-old war. Guests: - Jane Verlez, reporter, New York Times - Anthony Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, Center for Strategic and International Studies	Listen
Monday 7/26/2010 10:00 PM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100726E 10:00am John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn – Immigrants now make up 40 percent of Wisconsin's dairy farm workers. After ten, John Munson discusses the changing face of America's Dairyland with a journalist covering the story and an Assemblyman who has made immigrant rights one of his top priorities. Guests: - Andy Hall, Executive Director and reporter, Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism - Rep. Pedro Colon (D), 8th Assembly District	Listen
Monday 7/26/2010 10:00 AM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100726E 10:00am John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn – Immigrants now make up 40 percent of Wisconsin's dairy farm workers. After ten, John Munson discusses the changing face of America's Dairyland with a journalist covering the story and an Assemblyman who has made immigrant rights one of his top priorities. Guests: - Andy Hall, Executive Director and reporter, Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism - Rep. Pedro Colon (D), 8th Assembly District	Listen
Monday 7/26/2010 9:00 AM	John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn  - 100726D After nine, John Munson and his guest re-cap all the major headlines from across the Nation and around the Globe. Guest: Joseph Kunkel, Professor and Chairperson, Political Science Department, Minnesota State University-Mankato.	Listen
Thursday 7/22/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100722E The personal care products we use daily expose us to hundreds of chemicals, but are un-regulated by the F-D-A. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at the 50-billion-dollar cosmetic industry, and a new bill aimed at regulating it. Guest: Stacy Malkin, co-founder, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. Author, "Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry".	Listen
Thursday 7/22/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100722E The personal care products we use daily expose us to hundreds of chemicals, but are un-regulated by the F-D-A. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at the 50-billion-dollar cosmetic industry, and a new bill aimed at regulating it. Guest: Stacy Malkin, co-founder, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. Author, "Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry".	Listen
Thursday 7/22/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100722D After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine the possibility that President Obama will name Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Guests: • Vincent Reinhart, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute • Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor, American Prospect	Listen
Wednesday 7/21/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100721E After ten, a renowned and innovative educator, Rafe Esquith, joins Kathleen Dunn to discuss his teaching philosophy. Guest: Rafe Esquith, Elementary school teacher, Los Angeles. Author, "Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56" “Lighting Their Fires: How Parents and Teachers can Raise Extraordinary Kids".	Listen
Wednesday 7/21/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100721E After ten, a renowned and innovative educator, Rafe Esquith, joins Kathleen Dunn to discuss his teaching philosophy. Guest: Rafe Esquith, Elementary school teacher, Los Angeles. Author, "Teach Like Your Hair is on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56" “Lighting Their Fires: How Parents and Teachers can Raise Extraordinary Kids".	Listen
Wednesday 7/21/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100721D After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the outlook today for the un-employed and under-employed in America. Guest: Katherine Newman, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University. Author, "The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America"	Listen
Tuesday 7/20/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100720E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest revisit the summer of 1964, when more than seven-hundred student volunteers arrived in racialy charged Mississippi... registering black voters and opening schools to advocate for civil rights. Guest: Bruce Watson, historian, journalist, author, “Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy.”	Listen
Tuesday 7/20/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100720E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest revisit the summer of 1964, when more than seven-hundred student volunteers arrived in racially charged Mississippi... registering black voters and opening schools to advocate for civil rights. Guest: Bruce Watson, historian, journalist, author, “Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy.”	Listen
Tuesday 7/20/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100720D After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the cross-accusations of racism between the Tea Party and the NAACP. Guests: 9:00 – Janks Morton, Political Activist and Documentary Filmmaker of, “What Black Men Think.” Speaker at the upcoming UNI-TEA rally on July 31. 9:30 - Kenneth W. Mack, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School.	Listen
Monday 7/19/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100719E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the impact of "To Kill a Mockingbird," fifty years after its publication. Guests: - Mary Badham, actress who portrayed Louise 'Scout' Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962). - Charles Shields, author, "Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee."	Listen
Monday 7/19/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100719E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the impact of "To Kill a Mockingbird," fifty years after its publication. Guests: - Mary Badham, actress who portrayed Louise 'Scout' Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1962). - Charles Shields, author, "Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee."	Listen
Monday 7/19/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100719D After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest recap all the major headlines from Washington. Guest: Steve Kornacki, news editor, Salon.com	Listen
Thursday 7/15/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100715E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss what he calls the three distinct stages of neoconservatism in the U.S. Guest: Justin Vaïsse, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution. Adjunct Professor of European Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Author, "Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement"	Listen
Thursday 7/15/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100715E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss what he calls the three distinct stages of neo-conservatism in the U.S. Guest: Justin Vaïsse, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution. Adjunct Professor of European Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Author, "Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement"	Listen
Thursday 7/15/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100715D After nine, Kathleen Dunn looks at the different sides of a recent Supreme Court case that overturned Chicago’s ban on handguns. Guests: - Marcia Coyle, Chief Washington Correspondent, Washington Law Journal - Alexa Fritts, spokesperson, National Rifle Association - Paul Helmke, President, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence	Listen
Wednesday 7/14/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100714E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests review some of the great new book titles hitting bookstore shelves this summer and fall. Guests: - Dennis Uhlig, bookseller, Fireside Books & Gifts, West Bend, WI - Daniel Goldin, owner, Boswell Books, Milwaukee, WI	Listen
Wednesday 7/14/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100714E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests review some of the great new titles hitting bookstore shelves this summer and fall. Guests: - Dennis Uhlig, bookseller, Fireside Books & Gifts, West Bend, WI - Daniel Goldin, owner, Boswell Books, Milwaukee, WI	Listen
Wednesday 7/14/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100714D After nine, Kathleen Dunn hosts her July open line. Call in with your program ideas and guest suggestions.	Listen
Tuesday 7/13/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100713E After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest says the agricultural revolution some ten-thousand years ago had a downside that we’re only now beginning to recognize. Guest: Spencer Wells, geneticist, anthropologist, and Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society. Author, “Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization.”	Listen
Tuesday 7/13/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100713E After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest says the agricultural revolution some ten-thousand years ago had a downside that we’re only now beginning to recognize. Guest: Spencer Wells, geneticist, anthropologist, and Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society. Author, “Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization.”	Listen
Tuesday 7/13/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100713D Last week Ringo Starr celebrated his 70th birthday by playing Radio City Music Hall. After nine, Kathleen Dunn’s guest says a person’s eighth decade is seen more and more as an active time of life... just past retirement... and a time to explore. Guest: Anne Basting, Director, Center on Age & Community. Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, Peck School of the Arts, UW-Milwaukee. Author, “Forget Memory: Creating better lives for people with dementia.”	Listen
Monday 7/12/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100712E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest talk about the stereotype that siblingless children are more selfish, lonely and spoiled than children with siblings. Guest: Toni Falbo, professor of educational psychology and sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, author of The Single Child Family	Listen
Monday 7/12/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100712E After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest talk about the stereotype that siblingless children are more selfish, lonely and spoiled than children with siblings. Guest: Toni Falbo, professor of educational psychology and sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, author of The Single Child Family	Listen
Monday 7/12/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100712D After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests recap all the major political headlines from last week. Guests: 9:00- David Winston, president, Winston Group. 9:30 - Sam Stein, Political Reporter, Huffington Post.	Listen
Thursday 7/8/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100708E U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the federal government against Arizona’s new immigration law. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests look at the controversy. Guests: - Michael Hethmon, General Counsel, Immigration Reform Law Institute. - Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California – Davis.	Listen
Thursday 7/8/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100708E U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has filed a lawsuit on behalf of the federal government against Arizona’s new immigration law. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests look at the controversy. Guests: - Michael Hethmon, General Counsel, Immigration Reform Law Institute. - Kevin R. Johnson, Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California – Davis.	Listen
Thursday 7/8/2010 9:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100708D After nine, Kathleen Dunn is joined by a member of the Patchwork Nation Project, an organization that studies the different realities experienced by more than 300-million Americans. Guest: Dante Chinni, correspondent and project director, Patchwork Nation Project. http://patchworknation.csmonitor.com	Listen
Wednesday 7/7/2010 10:00 PM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100707E The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten, for a look at her new book of essays, “I Know I Am, But What Are You?” Guest: Samantha Bee, Most Senior Correspondent, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” Author, “I Know I am, But What Are You?”	Listen
Wednesday 7/7/2010 10:00 AM	Kathleen Dunn  - 100707E The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten, for a look at her new book of essays, “I Know I Am, But What Are You?” Guest: Samantha Bee, Most Senior Correspondent, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” Author, “I Know I am, But What Are You?”	Listen
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