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Monday
9/6/2010
10:00 PM
100906E
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Kathleen Dunn
Hershey bars... Tabasco sauce... Spam... even Google... all come from one. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at the history and future of the "company town," where one business dominates the local economy and culture.
Guest: Hardy Green, author, “The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills that Shaped the American Economy.'
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Thursday
9/2/2010
9:00 AM
100902D
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Kathleen Dunn
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".
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Thursday
9/2/2010
10:00 AM
100902E
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Kathleen Dunn
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"
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Thursday
9/2/2010
10:00 PM
100902E
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Kathleen Dunn
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"
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Wednesday
9/1/2010
9:00 AM
100901D
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Wednesday
9/1/2010
10:00 AM
100901E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Wednesday
9/1/2010
10:00 PM
100901E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Tuesday
8/31/2010
9:00 AM
100831D
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Kathleen Dunn
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”
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Tuesday
8/31/2010
10:00 AM
100831E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Tuesday
8/31/2010
10:00 PM
100831E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Monday
8/30/2010
9:00 AM
100830D
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Monday
8/30/2010
10:00 AM
100830E
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Kathleen Dunn
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
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Monday
8/30/2010
10:00 PM
100830E
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Kathleen Dunn
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
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Thursday
8/26/2010
9:00 AM
100826D
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Thursday
8/26/2010
10:00 AM
100826E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Thursday
8/26/2010
10:00 PM
100826E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Wednesday
8/25/2010
9:00 AM
100825D
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Kathleen Dunn
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
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Wednesday
8/25/2010
10:00 AM
100825E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Wednesday
8/25/2010
10:00 PM
100825E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Tuesday
8/24/2010
9:00 AM
100824D
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Tuesday
8/24/2010
10:00 AM
100824E
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Kathleen Dunn
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
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Tuesday
8/24/2010
10:00 PM
100824E
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Kathleen Dunn
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
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Monday
8/23/2010
9:00 AM
100823D
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Kathleen Dunn
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
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Monday
8/23/2010
10:00 AM
100823E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Monday
8/23/2010
10:00 PM
100823E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Thursday
8/19/2010
9:00 AM
100819D
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Thursday
8/19/2010
10:00 AM
100819E
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Kathleen Dunn
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”.
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Thursday
8/19/2010
10:00 PM
100819E
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Kathleen Dunn
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”.
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Wednesday
8/18/2010
9:00 AM
100818D
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Wednesday
8/18/2010
10:00 AM
100818E
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Kathleen Dunn
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).
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Wednesday
8/18/2010
10:00 PM
100818E
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Kathleen Dunn
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).
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Tuesday
8/17/2010
9:00 AM
100817D
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Tuesday
8/17/2010
10:00 AM
100817E
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Kathleen Dunn
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".
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Tuesday
8/17/2010
10:00 PM
100817E
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Kathleen Dunn
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".
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Monday
8/16/2010
9:00 AM
100816D
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Kathleen Dunn
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."
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Monday
8/16/2010
10:00 AM
100816E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Monday
8/16/2010
10:00 PM
100816E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Thursday
8/12/2010
9:00 AM
100812D
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Thursday
8/12/2010
10:00 AM
100812E
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Kathleen Dunn
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”.
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Thursday
8/12/2010
10:00 PM
100812E
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Kathleen Dunn
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”
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Wednesday
8/11/2010
9:00 AM
100811D
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Kathleen Dunn
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"
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Wednesday
8/11/2010
10:00 AM
100811E
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Kathleen Dunn
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”.
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Wednesday
8/11/2010
10:00 PM
100811E
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Kathleen Dunn
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”.
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Tuesday
8/10/2010
9:00 AM
100810D
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Kathleen Dunn
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”.
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Tuesday
8/10/2010
10:00 AM
100810E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Tuesday
8/10/2010
10:00 PM
100810E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Monday
8/9/2010
9:00 AM
100809D
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Kathleen Dunn
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"
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Monday
8/9/2010
10:00 AM
100809E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Monday
8/9/2010
10:00 PM
100809E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Thursday
8/5/2010
9:00 AM
100805D
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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"
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Thursday
8/5/2010
10:00 AM
100805E
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Thursday
8/5/2010
10:00 PM
100805E
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Wednesday
8/4/2010
9:00 AM
100804D
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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
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Wednesday
8/4/2010
10:00 AM
100804E
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Wednesday
8/4/2010
10:00 PM
100804E
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Tuesday
8/3/2010
9:00 AM
100803D
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Kathleen Dunn
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)
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Tuesday
8/3/2010
10:00 AM
100803E
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Kathleen Dunn
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)
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Tuesday
8/3/2010
10:00 PM
100803E
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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)
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Monday
8/2/2010
9:00 AM
100802D
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Monday
8/2/2010
10:00 AM
100802E
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Monday
8/2/2010
10:00 PM
100802E
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Thursday
7/29/2010
9:00 AM
100729D
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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
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Thursday
7/29/2010
10:00 AM
100729E
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Thursday
7/29/2010
10:00 PM
100729D
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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
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Wednesday
7/28/2010
9:00 AM
100728D
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Wednesday
7/28/2010
10:00 AM
100728E
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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”.
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Wednesday
7/28/2010
10:00 PM
100728E
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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” .
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Tuesday
7/27/2010
9:00 AM
100727D
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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
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Tuesday
7/27/2010
10:00 AM
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
After ten, John Munson conducts of straw poll for who you plan to vote for during Wisconsin's gubernatorial election.
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Tuesday
7/27/2010
10:00 PM
100727E
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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
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Monday
7/26/2010
9:00 AM
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Monday
7/26/2010
10:00 AM
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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
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Monday
7/26/2010
10:00 PM
100726E
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
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
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Thursday
7/22/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
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
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Thursday
7/22/2010
10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
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".
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Thursday
7/22/2010
10:00 PM
100722E
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Kathleen Dunn
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".
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Wednesday
7/21/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
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"
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Wednesday
7/21/2010
10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
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".
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Wednesday
7/21/2010
10:00 PM
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Kathleen Dunn
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".
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Tuesday
7/20/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Tuesday
7/20/2010
10:00 AM
100720E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Tuesday
7/20/2010
10:00 PM
100720E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Monday
7/19/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest recap all the major headlines from Washington.
Guest: Steve Kornacki, news editor, Salon.com
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Monday
7/19/2010
10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
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."
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Monday
7/19/2010
10:00 PM
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Kathleen Dunn
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."
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Thursday
7/15/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
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
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Thursday
7/15/2010
10:00 AM
100715E
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Kathleen Dunn
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"
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Thursday
7/15/2010
10:00 PM
100715E
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Kathleen Dunn
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"
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Wednesday
7/14/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn hosts her July open line. Call in with your program ideas and guest suggestions.
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Wednesday
7/14/2010
10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
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
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Wednesday
7/14/2010
10:00 PM
100714E
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Kathleen Dunn
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
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Tuesday
7/13/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Tuesday
7/13/2010
10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Tuesday
7/13/2010
10:00 PM
100713E
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Kathleen Dunn
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.”
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Monday
7/12/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Monday
7/12/2010
10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
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
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Monday
7/12/2010
10:00 PM
100712E
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Kathleen Dunn
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
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Thursday
7/8/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
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
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Thursday
7/8/2010
10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Thursday
7/8/2010
10:00 PM
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Kathleen Dunn
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.
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Wednesday
7/7/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
In surveys of 14,000 undergraduate college students over the last four years, an average of 61 percent admitted to cheating on assignments and exams. After 9, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look into why cheating is so widespread and what can be done to curb it.
Guest: Don McCabe, Professor of Management and Business at Rutgers University, author of “Cheating in Academic Institutions: A Decade of Research”
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Wednesday
7/7/2010
10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
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?”
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Wednesday
7/7/2010
10:00 PM
100707E
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Kathleen Dunn
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?”
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Tuesday
7/6/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
After 9, Kathleen Dunn takes a look at the political headlines with Newsweek's Senior Washington Correspondent and Columnist, senior editor and deputy Washington bureau chief.
Guest: Howard Fineman, Senior Washington Correspondent for Newsweek and author of The Thirteen American Arguments: Enduring Debates That Define and Inspire Our Country
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Tuesday
7/6/2010
10:00 AM
100706E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss summer travel in Wisconsin on a budget.
Guest: Martin Hintz, author, "Back Roads of Wisconsin," "Wisconsin: Fun With the Family", "Wisconsin Cheese: A Cookbook and Guide to the Cheeses of Wisconsin."
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Tuesday
7/6/2010
10:00 PM
100706E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss summer travel in Wisconsin on a budget.
Guest: Martin Hintz, author, "Back Roads of Wisconsin," "Wisconsin: Fun With the Family", "Wisconsin Cheese: A Cookbook and Guide to the Cheeses of Wisconsin."
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Monday
7/5/2010
9:00 AM
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Veronica Rueckert in for Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guest discuss all the major news stories from Washington.
Guest: Alexander P.Lamis, Associate Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University.
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Monday
7/5/2010
10:00 AM
100705E
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Veronica Rueckert in for Kathleen Dunn
According to Veronica Rueckert’s guest, after ten, the Tea Party remains a leaderless coalition of conservative activists who, for all their revolutionary vim, look less likely to take over the G-O-P than to be taken over by it.
Guest: Michael Brendan Dougherty, contributing editor, American Conservative. 2010 Phillips Journalism Fellow.
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Monday
7/5/2010
10:00 PM
100705E
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Veronica Rueckert in for Kathleen Dunn
According to Veronica Rueckert’s guest, after ten, the Tea Party remains a leaderless coalition of conservative activists who, for all their revolutionary vim, look less likely to take over the G-O-P than to be taken over by it.
Guest: Michael Brendan Dougherty, contributing editor, American Conservative. 2010 Phillips Journalism Fellow.
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Thursday
7/1/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
The FBI has arrested eleven people accused of being Russian spies. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the possibility that, nearly twenty years after the end of the Cold War, there are still double agents reporting back to Moscow.
Guest: Harvey Klehr, Professor of Politics and History, Emory University. Author, “In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage” and “Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America”.
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Thursday
7/1/2010
10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
Just in time for Independence Day, Kathleen Dunn's guest presents new research and scholarship to reveal how the American Revolution really began.
Guest: William Hogeland, journalist and author, “Declaration, The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent.”
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Thursday
7/1/2010
10:00 PM
100701E
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Kathleen Dunn
Just in time for Independence Day, Kathleen Dunn's guest presents new research and scholarship to reveal how the American Revolution really began.
Guest: William Hogeland, journalist and author, “Declaration, The Nine Tumultuous Weeks When America Became Independent.”
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Wednesday
6/30/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
Kathleen Dunn’s guest after 10 says that people are actually now sicker as they die and some find that treatments become a greater burden than the illness was. They discuss the trend of people being “overtreated to death.”
Guest: Dr. Ira Byock, director of palliative care at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Professor of Anesthesiology and Community & Family Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and author of “Dying Well: The Prospect of Growth at the End of Life”
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Wednesday
6/30/2010
10:00 AM
100630E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests remember the life and work of ‘The Wizard of Menlo Park,’ Thomas Edison.
Guests:
10:00- Jill Jonnes, Journalist and Author. Her books include, “Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World,” and most recently, “Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count.”
10:30 - David E. E. Sloane, Professor of English, University of New Haven. Great-grandson Thomas A. Edison
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Wednesday
6/30/2010
10:00 PM
100630E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests remember the life and work of ‘The Wizard of Menlo Park,’ Thomas Edison.
Guests:
10:00- Jill Jonnes, Journalist and Author. Her books include, “Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World,” and most recently, “Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair Where Buffalo Bill Beguiled Paris, the Artists Quarreled, and Thomas Edison Became a Count.”
10:30 - David E. E. Sloane, Professor of English, University of New Haven. Great-grandson Thomas A. Edison
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Tuesday
6/29/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the ongoing G-20 summit, and examine the financial crisis from around the world and across the country.
Guest: Abdur R. Chowdhury, Professor of Economics, Marquette University.
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Tuesday
6/29/2010
10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
Recent census data has suggested an increase in the numbers of late-in-life divorces. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss what is being termed “gray divorce.”
Guests:
- Paul Amato, Arnold and Bette Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University.
- Erica Manfred, journalist and author, “He's History, You're Not: Surviving Divorce After 40.”
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Tuesday
6/29/2010
10:00 PM
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Kathleen Dunn
Recent census data has suggested an increase in the numbers of late-in-life divorces. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss what is being termed “gray divorce.”
Guests:
- Paul Amato, Arnold and Bette Hoffman Professor of Family Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University.
- Erica Manfred, journalist and author, “He's History, You're Not: Surviving Divorce After 40.”
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Monday
6/28/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest recap all the nation's top news.
Guest: Glenn Thrush covers Capitol Hill for Politico.
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Monday
6/28/2010
10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guests are involved in a project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth.
Guests:
- Bob Corrigan, Product Manager and Acting Deputy Director, Encyclopedia of Life.
- Jeff Holmes, Digital Learning Editor, Encyclopedia of Life. www.eol.org
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Monday
6/28/2010
10:00 PM
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest recap all the nation's top news.
Guest: Glenn Thrush covers Capitol Hill for Politico.
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Thursday
6/24/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine local and national trends in education, from teacher layoffs... to the four-day school week.
Guests:
- Claus von Zastrow, Executive Director, Learning First Alliance. Blogger at edutopia.org and publicschoolinsights.org.
- Bob Peterson, Editor, Rethinking Schools. Fifth grade teacher, La Escuela Fratney, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Thursday
6/24/2010
10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest says these are fat times for many businesses operating on the economic fringes.
Guest: Gary Rivlin, author, “Broke: from Pawnshops to poverty, Inc. – How the Working Poor Became a Big Business.”
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Thursday
6/24/2010
10:00 PM
100624E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn’s guest says these are fat times for many businesses operating on the economic fringes.
Guest: Gary Rivlin, author, “Broke: from Pawnshops to poverty, Inc. – How the Working Poor Became a Big Business.”
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Wednesday
6/23/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
On Tuesday, President Obama unveiled a package of consumer benefits to build support for the new Health Care laws. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the new regulations that explain how several provisions of the law will be carried out.
Guest: Sabrina Corlette, Research Professor, Health Policy Institute, Georgetown University.
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Wednesday
6/23/2010
10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at the reasons why Americans today weigh an average of 25 to 30-pounds more than they did fifty years ago... and what can be done to curb this deadly trend.
Guests:
- Marion Nestle, Professor, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York
University. Former senior nutrition policy advisor, Department of Health and Human Services.
- Ken Albala, Professor of History at University of the Pacific, author of Ken Albala’s Food Rant blog
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Wednesday
6/23/2010
10:00 PM
100623E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at the reasons why Americans today weigh an average of 25 to 30-pounds more than they did fifty years ago... and what can be done to curb this deadly trend.
Guests:
- Marion Nestle, Professor, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University; Former senior nutrition policy advisor, Department of Health and Human Services
- Ken Albala, Professor of History at University of the Pacific, author of Ken Albala’s Food Rant blog
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Tuesday
6/22/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss Iran... one year after that nation's heavily contested and protested presidential election.
Guests:
9:00 - Jim Sciutto, Senior Foreign Correspondent, ABC News.
9:30 - Ervand Abrahamian, Professor of Iranian and Middle Eastern history and politics, Baruch College, City University of New York. Author, “A History of Modern Iran.”
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Tuesday
6/22/2010
10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
Kathleen Dunn's guest after ten challenges the political and intellectual orthodoxies surrounding the conflict in Darfur in his book Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror.
Guest: Mahmood Mamdani, professor of Government at Columbia University and author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim and Saviors and Survivors.
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Tuesday
6/22/2010
10:00 PM
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Kathleen Dunn
Kathleen Dunn's guest after ten challenges the political and intellectual orthodoxies surrounding the conflict in Darfur in his book Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror.
Guest: Mahmood Mamdani, professor of Government at Columbia University and author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim and Saviors and Survivors.
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Monday
6/21/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the nation's top news stories.
Guest: Charles Lipson, Professor of Political Science and Director, Program on International Politics, Economics, and Security, University of Chicago.
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Monday
6/21/2010
10:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
Should children have best friends? After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the benefits... and consequences... of having a Best Friend - one especially close confidant.
Guest: Niobe Way, professor of applied psychology, New York University. President, Society for Research on Adolescence.
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Monday
6/21/2010
10:00 PM
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Kathleen Dunn
Should children have best friends? After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the benefits... and consequences... of having a Best Friend - one especially close confidant.
Guest: Niobe Way, professor of applied psychology, New York University. President, Society for Research on Adolescence.
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Thursday
6/17/2010
9:00 AM
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Veronica Rueckert in for Kathleen Dunn
With the summer movie season upon us, after nine, Veronica Rueckert gets movie reviews from a favorite film critic... and you.
Guest: Mike Mayo, former columnist, “It Came From the Video Store,” for “The Washington Post,” and “The Roanoke Times.” Author, "VideoPremiers," "Horror Show," and "War Movies". Editor, “The VideoHound DVD Guide.”
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Thursday
6/17/2010
10:00 AM
100617E
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Veronica Rueckert in for Kathleen Dunn
What is it about them that, with so few words, they can enrage us... amuse us... or confound us? After ten, Veronica Rueckert's guest explores the deeper meanings behind Bumper Stickers.
Guest: Jack Bowen, philosophy teacher. Author, “If You Can Read This: The Philosophy of Bumper Stickers."
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Thursday
6/17/2010
10:00 PM
100617E
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Veronica Rueckert in for Kathleen Dunn
What is it about bumper stickers that can enrage us, amuse us or confound us with so few words? After ten, Veronica Rueckert's guest explores the deeper meanings behind car decals.
Guest: Jack Bowen, philosophy teacher and author of “If You Can Read This: The Philosophy of Bumper Stickers."
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Wednesday
6/16/2010
9:00 AM
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Veronica Rueckert in for Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Veronica Rueckert and her guest discuss whether President Obama really wants to lead the Democratic Party... and what that means for midterm elections.
Guest: Matt Bai, national political columnist, the New York Times. Regular contributor, the New York Times Magazine.
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Wednesday
6/16/2010
10:00 AM
100616E
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Veronica Rueckert in for Kathleen Dunn
Legendary rocker Pat Benatar (BEN-ah-tar) joins Veronica Rueckert, after ten, to discuss the realities of what it was really like to be a woman in a mostly male world of 80's hard rock.
Guest: Pat Benatar, four-time Grammy Award-winning singer. Her memoir, “Between a Heart and a Rock Place".
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Wednesday
6/16/2010
10:00 PM
100616E
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Veronica Rueckert in for Kathleen Dunn
Legendary rocker Pat Benatar (BEN-ah-tar) joins Veronica Rueckert, after ten, to discuss the realities of what it was really like to be a woman in a mostly male world of 80's hard rock.
Guest: Pat Benatar, four-time Grammy Award-winning singer. Her memoir, “Between a Heart and a Rock Place".
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Tuesday
6/15/2010
9:00 AM
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Veronica Rueckert in for Kathleen Dunn
Are college students today less empathetic than in the past? Yes, according the research of Veronica Rueckert’s guests, after nine.
Guests:
- Sara Konrath, Assistant Professor, Research Center for Group Dynamics and Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
- Edward O'Brien, graduate student and research assistant, University of Michigan.
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Tuesday
6/15/2010
10:00 AM
100615E
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Veronica Rueckert in for Kathleen Dunn
Veronica Rueckert’s guest, after ten, describes his struggle between the influences of his father... and Street culture.
Guest: Thomas Chatterton Williams, author, “Losing My Cool: How A Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture.”
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Tuesday
6/15/2010
10:00 PM
100615E
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Veronica Rueckert in for Kathleen Dunn
Veronica Rueckert’s guest, after ten, describes his struggle between the influences of his father... and Street culture.
Guest: Thomas Chatterton Williams, author, “Losing My Cool: How A Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture.”
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Monday
6/14/2010
9:00 AM
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Anne Strainchamps in for Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Anne Strainchamps hosts All Things Political, focusing on the Gulf oil spill and the economy.
Guests:
- Mark Schexnayder, regional coastal adviser, Agricultural Center and Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, Louisiana State University. Chair, the Agricultural Center’s Extension Response/Recovery Task Force.
- David Butler, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Director of the International Development Program, University of Southern Mississippi.
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Monday
6/14/2010
10:00 AM
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Anne Strainchamps in for Kathleen Dunn
According to 2009 U.S. Census data, nearly 64% of African American children live in father-absent homes. After ten, Anne Strainchamps and her guest discuss the consequences of absent fathers.
Guest: Alex Gee, pastor of Fountain of Life Family Worship Center. Founder of AGAPPE Inc (Alex Gee and Associates inspiring Passion, Purpose and Empowerment). President and founder of the Nehemiah Community Development Corporation. Author, “When God Lets You Down: Trusting Again After Pain and Loss,” and co-author of “Jesus & the Hip-Hop Prophets.”
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Monday
6/14/2010
10:00 PM
100614E
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Anne Strainchamps in for Kathleen Dunn
According to 2009 U.S. Census data, nearly 64% of African American children live in father-absent homes. After ten, Anne Strainchamps and her guest discuss the consequences of absent fathers.
Guest: Alex Gee, pastor of Fountain of Life Family Worship Center. Founder of AGAPPE Inc (Alex Gee and Associates inspiring Passion, Purpose and Empowerment). President and founder of the Nehemiah Community Development Corporation. Author, “When God Lets You Down: Trusting Again After Pain and Loss,” and co-author of “Jesus & the Hip-Hop Prophets.”
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Thursday
6/10/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls, and other information can change how we think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information. After nine, Kathleen Dunn talks with two researchers about how today's technology may be re-wiring our brains.
Guests:
- Clifford Nass, Professor, Stanford University. Founder and director, Communication between Humans and Interactive Media (CHIMe) Lab.
- Dr. Adam Gazzaley, Assistant Professor of Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry.
Director, Neuroscience Imaging Center, University of California at San Francisco.
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Thursday
6/10/2010
10:00 AM
100610E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look into what he has termed "state capitalism" and what it means for free market democracies.
Guest: Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and author of "The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations"
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Thursday
6/10/2010
10:00 PM
100610E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look into what he has termed "state capitalism" and what it means for free market democracies.
Guest: Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and author of "The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations"
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Wednesday
6/9/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests preview the Soccer World Cup championship, underway this week in South Africa. What does it mean politically, culturally and economically for South Africa... and what will happen on "the pitch" itself?
Guests:
- Peter Alegi, Professor of history, Michigan State University. Author, “African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the World’s Game” and “Laduma! Soccer, Politics, and Society in South Africa”
- Shep Messing, former goalkeeper, U.S. National Team. Soccer analyst for ESPN International.
- John O’Brien, former midfielder, U.S. National Team, World Cup analyst, New York Times.
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Wednesday
6/9/2010
10:00 AM
100609E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine President Obama’s first year in office.
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”.
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Wednesday
6/9/2010
10:30 AM
100609X
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten-thirty, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the results from last night’s primaries.
Guests:
- Janine Parry, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Arkansas. Director, Arkansas Poll.
- Joseph Stewart, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Clemson University.
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Wednesday
6/9/2010
10:00 PM
100609E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine President Obama’s first year in office.
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”.
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Wednesday
6/9/2010
10:30 PM
100609X
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten-thirty, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the results from last night’s primaries.
Guests:
- Janine Parry, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Arkansas. Director, Arkansas Poll.
- Joseph Stewart, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Clemson University.
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Tuesday
6/8/2010
9:00 AM
100608D
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Kathleen Dunn
Kathleen Dunn hosts her June Open Line. You're invited to call-in and suggest programs and guests you want to hear on Wisconsin Public Radio.
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Tuesday
6/8/2010
10:00 AM
100608E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests evaluate the Obama administration’s approach to preventing teen pregnancy, which provides federal funds for more than just abstinence-only education programs.
Guests:
-Julie Downs, Director, Center for Risk Perception and Communication, Carnegie Mellon University.
-Bill Albert, Chief Program Officer, National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
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Tuesday
6/8/2010
10:00 PM
100608E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests evaluate the Obama administration’s approach to preventing teen pregnancy, which provides federal funds for more than just abstinence-only education programs.
Guests:
-Julie Downs, Director, Center for Risk Perception and Communication, Carnegie Mellon University.
-Bill Albert, Chief Program Officer, National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
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Monday
6/7/2010
9:00 AM
100607D
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests delve into the week’s top political headlines.
Guests:
9:00 – Charles Franklin, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
9:30 – E.J. Dionne, Jr., Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution. Syndicated columnist, Washington Post. Author, "Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious Right."
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Monday
6/7/2010
10:00 AM
100607E
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Kathleen Dunn
Literary maven Nancy Pearl joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten, to discuss great travel writing, and how to fit a perfect read into your summer travels.
Guest: Nancy Pearl, Former Director, Seattle Public Library. Author, “Book Lust,” and “Book Crush.”
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Monday
6/7/2010
10:00 PM
100607E
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Kathleen Dunn
Literary maven Nancy Pearl joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten, to discuss great travel writing, and how to fit a perfect read into your summer travels.
Guest: Nancy Pearl, former director, Seattle Public Library. Author, “Book Lust,” and “Book Crush.”
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Thursday
6/3/2010
9:00 AM
100603D
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, veteran broadcaster Ed Schultz joins Kathleen Dunn to examine the state of the American middle class.
Guest: Ed Schultz, host of “The Ed Show,” on MSNBC, and “The Ed Schultz Show,” syndicated talk program. Author, “Killer Politics: How Big Money and Bad Politics Are Destroying the Great American Middle Class.”
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Thursday
6/3/2010
9:30 AM
100603X
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine-thirty, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the recent conflict in the Middle East between the Israeli Navy and Turkish aid ships headed to Gaza.
Guest: Soli Özel, professor, International Relations and Political Science, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey.
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Thursday
6/3/2010
10:00 AM
100603E
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Kathleen Dunn
He served as a U.S. Senator, Speaker of the House, Secretary of State, and was a five-time presidential candidate. After ten, Kathleen Dunn talks with two guests who describe nineteenth-century American statesman Henry Clay as “the essential American.”
Guests: David and Jeanne Heidler, American historians and authors of, "Henry Clay: The Essential American".
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Thursday
6/3/2010
10:00 PM
100603E
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Kathleen Dunn
He served as a U.S. Senator, Speaker of the House, Secretary of State, and was a five-time presidential candidate. After ten, Kathleen Dunn talks with two guests who describe nineteenth-century American statesman Henry Clay as “the essential American.”
Guests: David and Jeanne Heidler, American historians and authors of, "Henry Clay: The Essential American".
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Wednesday
6/2/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
After 9, Kathleen Dunn looks at two different aspects of the Gulf oil spill -- the Obama Administration's response and the environmental impact.
Guests: Kate Sheppard, environmental reporter, Mother Jones Magazine
Athan Manuel, director, Lands Protection Program, Sierra Club
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Wednesday
6/2/2010
10:00 AM
100602E
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Kathleen Dunn
Scientists know her as HeLa, the name given to her cancer cells that were biopsied and cultured without her permission in 1951. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the life of Henrietta Lacks, a woman who's "immortal" cancer-cells helped launch a medical revolution.
Guest: Rebecca Skloot, Writer and Journalist. Author, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”
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Wednesday
6/2/2010
10:00 PM
100602E
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Kathleen Dunn
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa, the name given to her cancer cells that were biopsied and cultured without her permission in 1951. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss Henrietta’s life, her family, and how her ‘immortal’ cells launched a medical revolution.
Guest: Rebecca Skloot, writer and journalist. Author, “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”
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Tuesday
6/1/2010
9:00 AM
100601D
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn's guest discusses U.S. immigration... and claims that Mexican President Calderon’s administration is helping to rig the country’s drug wars.
Guest: John M. Ackerman, Professor, Institute for Legal Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Editor-in-Chief, Mexican Law Review.
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Tuesday
6/1/2010
10:00 AM
100601E
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Kathleen Dunn
After twenty-five years, thirty-two missions, and more than one-hundred-twenty million miles, Space Shuttle Atlantis coasted into retirement last week after it's final scheduled flight. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the history of the Space Shuttle... and the future of NASA.
Guest: Alan J. Peche, Director, Barlow Planetarium. www.uwfox.uwc.edu/barlow/
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Tuesday
6/1/2010
10:00 PM
100601E
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Kathleen Dunn
After twenty-five years, thirty-two missions, and more than one-hundred-twenty million miles, Space Shuttle Atlantis coasted into retirement last week after it's final scheduled flight. After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the history of the Space Shuttle... and the future of NASA.
Guest: Alan J. Peche, Director, Barlow Planetarium. www.uwfox.uwc.edu/barlow/
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Monday
5/31/2010
9:00 AM
100531D
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Veronica Rueckert in for Kathleen Dunn
Nine o'clock Monday morning means it's time for All Things Political. Veronica Rueckert and her guest take a look at the-week-that-was.
Guest: Paul Singer, Associate Editor, Roll Call online newspaper.
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Monday
5/31/2010
10:00 AM
100531E
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Veronica Rueckert in for Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest discuss the news impact of blogs and other social media, as well as how their agendas compare with the traditional press.
Guest: Mark Jurkowitz, Associate Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism. www.journalism.org/
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Monday
5/31/2010
10:00 PM
100531E
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Veronica Rueckert in for Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Veronica Rueckert and her guest discuss the news impact of blogs and other social media, as well as how their agendas compare with the traditional press.
Guest: Mark Jurkowitz, Associate Director, Project for Excellence in Journalism. www.journalism.org/
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Thursday
5/27/2010
9:00 AM
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
After nine, John Munson and his guest tackle the issues of online alcohol ads and Facebook’s new privacy policy.
Guest: Kathryn Montgomery, Communication Professor, American University, co-author of the report “Alcohol Marketing in the Digital Age”
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Thursday
5/27/2010
10:00 AM
100527E
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
After ten, John Munson’s guest recounts his journey into the infrastructure that makes society possible - traveling everywhere from the inside of a storm water pipe, to the sewers of ancient Rome.
Guest: Scott Huler, Author, “On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work.”
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Thursday
5/27/2010
10:00 PM
100527E
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John Munson in for Kathleen Dunn
After ten, John Munson’s guest recounts his journey into the infrastructure that makes society possible - traveling everywhere from the inside of a storm water pipe, to the sewers of ancient Rome.
Guest: Scott Huler, Author, “On the Grid: A Plot of Land, An Average Neighborhood, and the Systems that Make Our World Work.”
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Wednesday
5/26/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine the controversy surrounding recent changes in textbooks made by the Texas Board of Education.
Guests:
9:00 – Susan B. Neuman, Professor in Educational Studies, University of Michigan. Former United States Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education.
9:20 - Julian Vasquez Heilig, Associate Director, University Council for Educational Administration, and Assistant Professor of Educational Policy and Planning, Department of Education Administration, The University of Texas at Austin.
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Wednesday
5/26/2010
10:00 AM
100526E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss James Earl Ray’s long quest to kill Martin Luther King, Jr. and the sixty-five-day international hunt to find King’s assassin.
Guest: Hampton Sides, award-winning editor of "Outside" and the author of the best-selling histories "Blood and Thunder", "Ghost Soldiers" and "Hellhound on His Trail"
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Wednesday
5/26/2010
10:00 PM
100526E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss James Earl Ray’s long quest to kill Martin Luther King, Jr. and the sixty-five-day international hunt to find King’s assassin.
Guest: Hampton Sides, award-winning editor of Outside and the author of the best-selling histories "Blood and Thunder", "Ghost Soldiers" and "Hellhound on His Trail"
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Tuesday
5/25/2010
9:00 AM
100525D
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests talk about Race to the Top, a $4.35 billion incentive program to spur reforms in state and local district K-12 education.
Guests:
-Jon Schnur, CEO and co-founder, New Leaders for New Schools
-Steven Brill, co-founder, Journalism Online, founder, CourtTV
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Tuesday
5/25/2010
10:00 AM
100525E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, 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.”
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Tuesday
5/25/2010
10:00 PM
100525E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, 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.”
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Monday
5/24/2010
9:00 AM
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest recap all the major headlines from Washington.
Guest: George Waller, Assistant Professor, UW-Fox Valley.
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Monday
5/24/2010
10:00 AM
100524E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine the state of cable news.
Guests:
10:00 - William Keith, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
10:30 - Robert McChesney, Professor, Department of Communication, U. Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. Co-founder, Free Press. Co-author, “The Death & Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again". www.robertmcchesney.com
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Monday
5/24/2010
10:00 PM
100524E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine the state of cable news.
Guests:
10:00 - William Keith, Professor, Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
10:30 - Robert McChesney, Professor, Department of Communication, U. Illinois-Urbana-Champaign. Co-founder, Free Press. Co-author, “The Death & Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again". www.robertmcchesney.com
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Thursday
5/20/2010
9:00 AM
100520D
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine this week’s political primaries, and what the results mean for the November mid-term elections.
Guests:
- Thomas Fitzgerald, Staff Writer, “Philadelphia Inquirer.”
- Janine Parry, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Arkansas. Director, Arkansas Poll.
- D. Stephen Voss, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Political Science, University of Kentucky.
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Thursday
5/20/2010
10:00 AM
100520E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest recounts his journey circumnavigating the world, remaining earthbound the entire time.
Guest: Seth Stevenson, contributing writer for Slate. Author, "Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World".
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Thursday
5/20/2010
10:00 PM
100520E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn's guest recounts his journey circumnavigating the world, remaining earthbound the entire time.
Guest: Seth Stevenson, contributing writer for Slate. Author, "Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World".
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Wednesday
5/19/2010
9:00 AM
100519D
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Kathleen Dunn
The Dalai Lama (DAH-lye LAH-mah) was in Madison over the weekend to mark the opening of the Center For Investigating Healthy Minds. After nine, Kathleen Dunn talks with the director of the center about the relationship between science and humanity.
Guest: Dr. Richard J. Davidson, Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, UW-Madison. Director, Waisman Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior. Director, Center for Investigating Healthy Minds.
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Tuesday
5/18/2010
9:00 AM
100518D
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the history and regulatory changes concerning offshore drilling.
Guests:
- Tyler Priest, a Clinical Professor of Business History and Director of Global Studies at the University of Houston’s C.T. Bauer College of Business. Author, “The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil’s Search for Petroleum in Postwar America.”
- Mandy Smithberger, National Security Investigator, Project On Government Oversight. www.pogo.org
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Tuesday
5/18/2010
10:00 AM
100518E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest examine the issues of caring for a chronically ill loved-one... something sixty-five million are doing in America today.
Guest: Gail Sheehy, Journalist, Lecturer, Author, "Passages in Caregiving".
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Tuesday
5/18/2010
10:00 PM
100518D
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the history and regulatory changes concerning offshore drilling.
Guests:
- Tyler Priest, a Clinical Professor of Business History and Director of Global Studies at the University of Houston’s C.T. Bauer College of Business. Author, “The Offshore Imperative: Shell Oil’s Search for Petroleum in Postwar America.”
- Mandy Smithberger, National Security Investigator, Project On Government Oversight. www.pogo.org
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Monday
5/17/2010
9:00 AM
100517D
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss all the major national news.
Guests:
9:00 - Julie Mason, White House Correspondent, The Washington Examiner.
9:30 - Julianna Goldman, White House Reporter, Bloomberg News.
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Monday
5/17/2010
10:00 AM
100517E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests look back at NAFTA (NAFF-tuh), the North American Free Trade Agreement, seventeen years after it was signed by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
Guests:
- Thea Lee, Policy Director and Chief International Economist, AFL-CIO.
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Jeffrey Schott, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics. Co-author, "NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges".
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Monday
5/17/2010
10:00 PM
100517E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests look back at NAFTA (NAFF-tuh), the North American Free Trade Agreement, seventeen years after it was signed by the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
Guests:
- Thea Lee, Policy Director and Chief International Economist, AFL-CIO.
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Jeffrey Schott, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics. Co-author, "NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges".
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Thursday
5/13/2010
9:00 AM
100513D
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Kathleen Dunn
Share your suggestions for future programs and guests, after nine, when Kathleen Dunn hosts her May
Open Line.
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Thursday
5/13/2010
10:00 AM
100513E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest talk about the transition from high school student... to college life... with practical information every student and parent shoud know.
Guest: Robert Neuman, former associate dean and assistant professor, Marquette University. Author, "Are You Really Ready for College?"
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Thursday
5/13/2010
10:00 PM
100513E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest talk about the transition from high school student... to college life... with practical information every student and parent shoud know.
Guest: Robert Neuman, former associate dean and assistant professor, Marquette University. Author, "Are You Really Ready for College?"
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Wednesday
5/12/2010
9:00 AM
100512D
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Kathleen Dunn
The Conservative party in Britain failed to win an absolute majority as originally anticipated in last week’s elections, forcing a hung Parliament. After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine the British voting system, and current negotiations between Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties.
Guest: Paul Whiteley, Professor of Politics and Government, University of Essex.
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Wednesday
5/12/2010
10:00 AM
100512E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at the city of Juarez (WHAR-ez), Mexico... once a poster child for NAFTA (NAFF-tah), it is now considered the murder capital of the world.
Guest: Charles Bowden, Contributing Editor, GQ, Mother Jones. Author, "Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields".
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Wednesday
5/12/2010
10:00 PM
100512E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest look at the city of Juarez (WHAR-ez), Mexico... once a poster child for NAFTA (NAFF-tah), it is now considered the murder capital of the world.
Guest: Charles Bowden, Contributing Editor, GQ, Mother Jones. Author, "Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields".
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Tuesday
5/11/2010
9:00 AM
100511D
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to The Supreme Court.
Guests:
- Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Co-founder, Change Congress.
- Paul F. Campos, Professor of Law, University of Colorado.
- Sam Stein, Political Reporter, Huffington Post.
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Tuesday
5/11/2010
10:00 AM
100511E
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Kathleen Dunn
Explorer Eric Larsen joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten, to talk about his recent trip to the North Pole, the second leg of his “Save the Poles” expedition to raise awareness on global warming.
Guest: Eric Larsen, Polar Explorer, Dog Musher, Adventure Racer and Educator. Project Leader, ‘Save the Poles’ Team. www.savethepoles.com
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Tuesday
5/11/2010
10:00 PM
100511E
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Kathleen Dunn
Explorer Eric Larsen joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten, to talk about his recent trip to the North Pole, the second leg of his “Save the Poles” expedition to raise awareness on global warming.
Guest: Eric Larsen, Polar Explorer, Dog Musher, Adventure Racer and Educator. Project Leader, ‘Save the Poles’ Team. www.savethepoles.com
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Monday
5/10/2010
9:00 AM
100510D
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, it's all things political when Kathleen Dunn and her guest review last week's major headlines... with special coverage of Congressman Dave Obey's retirement announcement.
Guests:
- Glen Moberg, Reporter, Producer, and Host of Route 51, WPR.
- Steve Gunderson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Council on Foundations. Former U.S. Congressman, and member of the Wisconsin State Legislature.
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Monday
5/10/2010
10:00 AM
100510E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest delve into the issue of morality in infants. Researchers at Yale University say they've seen signs of moral thought, judgment, and feelings in the first year of life.
Guests:
- Kiley Hamlin, Ph. D student, Yale University. Researcher, Infant Cognition Lab and lead author of the infant morality studies.
- Paul Bloom, Professor of psychology, Yale University
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Monday
5/10/2010
10:00 PM
100510E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest delve into the issue of morality in infants. Researchers at Yale University say they've seen signs of moral thought, judgment, and feelings in the first year of life.
Guests:
- Kiley Hamlin, Ph. D student, Yale University. Researcher, Infant Cognition Lab and lead author of the infant morality studies.
- Paul Bloom, Professor of psychology, Yale University
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Thursday
5/6/2010
9:00 AM
100506D
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Kathleen Dunn
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor joins Kathleen Dunn and guests, after nine, to talk about her new venture, a web-based education project designed to reinvigorate civics learning inside and outside the classroom.
Guests:
- Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, Retired. Chair, “Our Courts.” www.ourcourts.org
- Ann Walsh Bradley, Justice of Wisconsin Supreme Court. State Chair, “Our Courts.”
- Ted McConnell, Executive Director, Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools.
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Thursday
5/6/2010
10:00 AM
100506E
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Kathleen Dunn
Author Alice Walker joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten, to discuss her latest book, “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker.”
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Thursday
5/6/2010
10:00 PM
100506E
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Kathleen Dunn
Author Alice Walker joins Kathleen Dunn, after ten, to discuss her latest book, “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker.”
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Wednesday
5/5/2010
9:00 AM
100505D
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guest discuss the ongoing investigation with the failed Times Square car bomb... the United Nations nuclear non-proliferation conference now underway... and look ahead to midterms elections.
Guest: Joseph Kunkel, Professor and Chairperson, Political Science Department, Minnesota State University-Mankato.
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Wednesday
5/5/2010
10:00 AM
100505E
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Kathleen Dunn
It’s time to talk about Summer reading, after ten, when Kathleen Dunn and her guest take a look at what’s hot now... and what great new releases we can expect in the weeks to come.
Guest: Dave Mallmann, Head Buyer, Next Chapter Bookshop.
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Wednesday
5/5/2010
10:00 PM
100421E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest Anna Quindlen discuss her latest novel, retiring from Newsweek, and her take on current events.
Guest: Anna Quindlen, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and author of "Every Last One."
Original Air Date -- 4/21/2010
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Tuesday
5/4/2010
9:00 AM
100504D
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Kathleen Dunn
After nine, Kathleen Dunn and her guests discuss the Gulf Coast oil spill, regulations on off-shore drilling, the environmental impact, and the future of the fishing industry.
Guests:
- Tom Bearden, Correspondent, PBS’s the NewsHour.
- Mark Schexnayder, regional coastal adviser, Agricultural Center and Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, Louisiana State University.
- Kim Chauvin, co-owner, Mariah Jade Shrimp Company.
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Tuesday
5/4/2010
10:00 AM
100504E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest define and examine the role of the Credit Default Swap (CDS) in the recent financial crisis.
Guest: Michael Lewis, financial journalist. Author, “The Big Short,” “Moneyball” and “The Blind Side”.
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Tuesday
5/4/2010
10:30 AM
100504X
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Kathleen Dunn
Kathleen Dunn's guest this half-hour, Mike Allen, was recently described by New York Times Magazine as “the man the White House wakes up to.” After ten-thirty, a look at all the excitement... and the stress... that comes with covering the White House.
Guest: Mike Allen, chief White House correspondent for Politico.
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Tuesday
5/4/2010
10:00 PM
100504E
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Kathleen Dunn
After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guest define and examine the role of the Credit Default Swap (CDS) in the recent financial crisis.
Guest: Michael Lewis, financial journalist. Author, “The Big Short,” “Moneyball” and “The Blind Side”.
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Tuesday
5/4/2010
10:30 PM
100504X
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Kathleen Dunn
Kathleen Dunn's guest this half-hour, Mike Allen, was recently described by New York Times Magazine as “the man the White House wakes up to.” After ten-thirty, a look at all the excitement... and the stress... that comes with covering the White House.
Guest: Mike Allen, chief White House correspondent for Politico.
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