Hour 1
There is a bill before the New Jersey assembly that would give adult adoptees access to their birth records. While adoptees argue that they have a right to this information, others say that the privacy rights of the birth parents should be protected. This hour, we'll debate this issue and look at the growing trend toward openness in adoptions. Our guests are University of Pennsylvania law professor Anita Allen and the executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, Adam Pertman.

Filed under: family issues, parenting, social issues |

Hour 2
JESSICA STERN directs Harvard Law School’s terrorism program; she’s one of the world's foremost experts on religious terrorism, militant jihadism and post-traumatic stress disorder, and last appeared on "Radio Times" in January to discuss efforts to "deradicalize" terrorists. Jessica Stern is also a survivor of a brutal rape, as she reveals for the first time in her new book, "Denial: A Personal Memoir of Terror." Jessica was 15, her sister 14, in 1973 when a stranger broke into their home and raped them for over an hour. He left, and was never caught. Three decades later, after a career that has taken her into some of the world’s most dangerous places, a devoted police detective reopened her case, and she opened her own investigation. Along the way, she confronted her own post-traumatic stress disorder, and much, much more.

Filed under: author, crime, criminal justice, politics, religion, world |