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After almost 50 years of feminism, how often do working women today have to worry about being judged by the their bodies instead of their minds?

Katie Letcher Lyle says that for the first 50 years of her life she thought, "all that stuff was just so much worthless hoo-hah." Then something happened.

What would you most like to know about America's civil war?

What do you think you already know?

Willing to be surprised?
 

Expanding gun rights.

Further restricting abortion.

Taking money out of education and health care in order to fund transportation.

Eliminating all state funding of public broadcasting.

Those are some of the Republican proposals that got stopped last year by Democrats in Virginia's state Senate.  But now that Republicans have won control of that Senate -- can we look forward to a hard turn to the right in Virginia's legislative priorities? 

Do you feel powerful when you put food on your plate?

Tanya Cobb would like you to at least understand the power inherit in knowing where your food came from.

We talk with the author of the new book Reclaiming our Food about her theories on the relationship between food, knowledge, power, and democracy.

Perhaps you have heard of the tragedy of the boy soldier. A youngster dragged into third-world conflicts at the age of 7 or 8 and forced to fight.

Certainly no one holds him responsible for his actions.

But what about boys... AND girls... who go to war for a cause at the age of 16, 17, or 18?

Should international law consider them as children not responsible for their actions too?

The author of the new book Re-imagining Child Soldiers joins us to argue for changing some key ideas about youthful combatants.

All of Virginia's state legislature... the "General Assembly"... is up for election on Tuesday, November 8.

All 100 House seats. All 40 seats in the State Senate.

In the Virginia Senate, Republicans need win only two more seats to take control, and thus total effective control of state government.

Two of the most contentious of the State Senate races are in the WMRA region.

We get a preview of Election Day from one Republican, one Democrat, and the Washington Post reporter who has been tracking the hottest races.

Guests:

How did 1940's malaria spawn modern day graffiti?

She lived through the horror of two civil wars in her homeland of Liberia.

Then she began promoting reconciliation between war criminals and their victims.

Her worldwide campaign includes a stop soon at Mary Baldwin College.

But before speaking there, she speaks with us.

Can classroom experience teach people to care about the environment... eventually leading to more adults taking environmental issues more seriously?