The Kathleen Dunn Show
Summary: Focused on leading balanced discussions about the issues of the day and those of our time, "The Kathleen Dunn Show" airs Monday through Thursday, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on the Ideas Network stations.
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On Wednesday Senate Intelligence Committee Hearings continued in the investigation into Russian hacking. We talk to a Bloomberg Reporter about where the investigation is at and what we know so far.
A survey of employers suggests college grads are largely unprepared for the job market. We break down what evidence shows this--- and why it may not tell the whole story.
Republican Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in a U.S. House election on Tuesday, in an elaborately expensive race. Both parties spent millions, and media swarmed. So why should we care, and what does Handel's win say, if anything, about America?
Senate Republicans have until July 4 to vote on legislation that would overhaul the Affordable Care Act. We talk to two reporters who've been following the healthcare debate about what the new bill may look like and what's next.
Over years, activists in Arizona developed effective strategies to keep people from being deported. But will those strategies still work since Immigration and Customs Enforcement has more power to deport under new Trump administration regulations?
Patients of today know everything about their condition, the various treatments available, and all the potential benefits and drawbacks of those treatments. It’s very different from years past, when doctors might not even inform their patients that they had cancer. But is that necessarily a good thing? Dr. Nikhil Barot, an internist and Assistant Professor at UCLA School of Medicine says that a little bit of paternalism is a good thing in medical care.
In 2011, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency made an ill-informed decision that triggered a massacre in a town in Mexico that led to dozens, possibly hundreds, of deaths and kidnappings. We talk to Ginger Thomas of ProPublica about that story, and what it tells us about the DEA, government accountability, and the drug trade.
We talk to the co-author of the new book "Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign." The authors argue that Clinton's loss ultimately came down to the candidate herself.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist at the Chicago Tribune joins "All Things Political" for a discussion about the latest stories in the headlines.
Earlier this week, reporters at the U.S. capitol were briefly banned from filming in senate hallways. It’s the latest in crackdowns against press access both in-person and online—from reporters blocked from access to Trump rallies, to politicians blocking both reporters and citizens on Twitter who they do not agree with, and even a reporter assaulted in Montana for asking a question. Technology makes some of it unprecedented -- where does this all fall legally? We'll talk to experts about the issue.
The attorneys general of Maryland and D.C. this week launched a lawsuit against President Trump, alleging violations of the foreign emoluments clause of the Constitution. And on Tuesday, nearly 200 congressional Democrats launched another emoluments violation suit against Trump. We talk to Richard Painter of the University of Minnesota Law School about the lawsuits.
A group of formerly-incarcerated people is working to end mass incarceration in Wisconsin and beyond. We talk to two leaders from the group about why it’s an issue and what action they’re taking.
Newly-dated fossils from Morocco indicate that humans were around 300,000 years ago - over 100,000 years older than we'd previously thought.
The Russia investigation is beginning to unravel. Ahead of Attorney General Jeff Session's public testimony Tuesday in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, we talk with a reporter: where does Sessions fit in?
The backlash to Besty DeVos's nomination as Secretary of Education was strong, with critics warning against her hostility toward public schools. Our guest examines the conditions in education that allowed for her success and says that Democrats are partly to blame.