As a staff member of the National Security Council under President Reagan, Oliver North will discuss this past year and America’s war on terrorism as well as his latest novel Mission Compromised. 

Tue. Aug.20
Topic: Strategies for Parenting Difficult Teens
Guest: Janet Sasson Edgette, Psy.D., M.P.H.

Janet Sasson Edgette has been a clinical psychologist for fifteen years. We will discuss how to parent teenagers who are angry, manipulative, moody or depressed and wreak havoc with family life.

Wed.Aug. 21
Topic: Sesame Workshop
Guest: Gary E. Knell, President and Chief Executive Officer Sesame Workshop

Children and families in almost 150 nations have embraced Sesame Street. With more than 120 million viewers, Sesame Workshop can be regarded as the single largest informal educator of young children in the world.We will discuss how international content is researched and incorporated into the programming.

Thr. Aug. 22
Topic: Adoption
Guests: Adam Pertman, author Adoption Nation
 TBA

In the 1990s there were approximately 120,000 adoptions each year in the United States. A 1997 survey found that 6 in 10 Americans have personal experience with adoption. We will discuss why Americans embrace adoption and why they accept children from different countries and cultures and make them their own.

Fri. Aug.23
Topic: Zimbabwe Land Redistribution
Guests: TBA

Zimbabwe’s eviction order for 2,900 white farmers has come into force. We will look at the farmers’ action group called Justice for Agriculture and President Mugabe’s campaign to what he sees as iniquities of land distribution during the colonial era.