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LAWRENCE B. WILKERSON is a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell, and now teaches at the College of William and Mary and George Washington University. Since his retirement from public service in 2005, Wilkerson has been outspoken about the planning and execution of the Iraq War and the policies and practices at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He recently made waves when he wrote that the Bush administration knew it was imprisoning innocent men at Guantanamo, and that some of those men are still there in U.S. custody. He’s today’s guest on "Radio Times."

Filed under: military, politics, world |

Hour 2
The Bordentown School was a co-ed boarding school for African American children during segregation from 1886-1955, on the Delaware River, just south of Trenton in New Jersey. Its educational high standards, discipline and life skills that the students received gave the school the reputation of the “Tuskegee of the North.” After the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision on the desegregation of schools, Bordentown closed in 1955. We’ll talk to ART SYMES, Bordentown School alum and former Dean of the School of Architecture at Southern University; and filmmaker and producer, CUNY film professor DAVE DAVIDSON, whose documentary, "A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School” will be aired on WHYY/PBS this Monday, May 24th at 10p.

Filed under: education, family issues, social issues |

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Pennsylvania’s Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Arlen Specter was at the center of this spring’s political attention, and the upset victory by Congressman Joe Sestak has only heightened the national interest in that political horse race. So today’s "Radio Times" we turn to the two men who ran the media campaigns for Specter and Sestak: CHRIS MOTTOLA and NEIL OXMAN, respectively. They’ll help us understand their campaigns, the changing role of the media in politics, and what their race and its result portends for national politics in the run-up to November’s mid-term elections.

Filed under: politics |

Hour 2
Singer and guitarist and mouth-trumpeter, RAUL MIDON, comes in to the "Radio Times" studio to demonstrate his unusual guitar skills by playing old and new original genre-bending songs. His latest album is "Synthesis."

Filed under: arts, entertainment, music |

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Dr. JAMES HANSEN, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and one of the leading voices on global warming, joins Marty to discuss his new book, "Storms of My Grandchildren." It tells the story of why Hansen boycotted the Copenhagen climate talks and has turned to a new degree of advocacy in the race to alleviate the effects of global climate change.

Filed under: author, environment, science |

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Over the past few weeks, there have been a number of high profile cases involving public figures lying or distorting the truth: Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal’s misrepresented his military record; anti-gay activist George Rekers was caught with a male prostitute; student Adam Wheeler lied about his academic record; and Indiana Representative Mark Souder had an extramarital affair with a staff member. So why do we tell lies, and why do we think we can get away with them? Are we programmed to deceive? We'll talk about lying, liars, and how to detect them with University of California, Santa Barbara social psychologist Bella DePaulo.

Filed under: family issues, social issues |

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The morning after Pennsylvania's primary elections, "Radio Times" will take stock of the results. Most eyes are watching the down-to-the-wire campaign for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate pitting incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter vs. Congressman Joe Sestak. The two parties' nominees for November's gubernatorial race should be decided, as well, with polls suggesting that Attorney General Tom Corbett and Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato would win the GOP and Democratic bids, respectively. Joining Marty on today's "Radio Times" are political scientists STEPHEN K. MEDVIC of Franklin & Marshall and MICHAEL G. HAGEN of Temple University. We'll also call out to Pittsburgh political analyst BILL GREEN for his take on the results as seen from Western PA.

Filed under: economy, politics, social issues |

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Documentary filmmaker KARIN MULLER has recently returned from filming undercover in Sudan. Through the organization, Take 2, she sent her raw footage from Sudan, Cuba and Gaza to high schools students to create their own documentaries with the message that they ultimately care about people they’ve never met. Muller joins us to discuss developing her multi-media skills through her years of being a National Geographic Explorer, PBS documentarian and Peace Corps worker. She has written three books on her travels, and often produces her work for PBS, MSNBC Explorer and National Geographic.

Filed under: education, politics, social issues, transportation, world |

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Fifty years ago this month the Food and Drug Administration announced its approval of the birth control pill. Much has been written about how its introduction enabled women to enter the work force, encouraged the sexual revolution and how, perhaps, it may even have undermined marriage. But our guest, historian Elaine Tyler May says the pill's greatest contribution was to mothers by allowing women to have children on their own terms. Her new book is "America and the Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation."

Filed under: author, family issues, health, medicine, parenting, social issues |

Hour 2
Writer HAMPTON SIDES reconstructs James Earl Ray's life and the events leading up to the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his new book, "Hellhounds on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin."

Filed under: author, crime, criminal justice, law enforcement |