A new documentary airing on PBS explores the topic of killing in wartime from the perspective of the individual soldier. Focusing on the Iraq War, "Soldiers of Conscience" profiles soldiers who have struggled with the morality of killing, including some who have chosen to become conscientious objectors.
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
• Aidan Delgado, former US Army soldier and current conscientious objector and law student
• Gary Weimberg, co-producer and director of "Soldiers of Conscience"
• J.E. McNeil, executive director at the Center on Conscience and War
• Pete Kilner, Army officer and philosophy instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point

Wednesday night's debate has been billed as the last chance for presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama to sway voters before the upcoming election. We discuss whether or not they accomplished their goals.
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
• Amy Sullivan, national correspondent for Time magazine
• Bill Whalen, research fellow at the Hoover Institution
• Michael Tomasky, journalist and editor of Guardian America

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson's final work portrays a young African-American community organizer with big political plans. It's now showing at Mountain View's TheatreWorks. We discuss that work, and Wilson's earlier "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," opening next month at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
• Aldo Billingslea, associate professor of acting and multicultural theater at Santa Clara University
• Delroy Lindo, actor and director of Berkeley Rep's, "Joe Turner's Come and Gone"
• Harry Elam, Olive H. Palmer professor of the humanities and director of "Radio Golf" at Stanford University

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Proposition 8 on the California ballot would amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage -- a recent victory for the homosexual community.
Host: Michael Krasny
Guests:
• Bill May, chairman of Catholics for the Common Good
• Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights and member of the executive committee of the "No on 8" campaign
More info:
• Prop. 8 at the Official Voter Information Guide

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We talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and cartoonist Art Spiegelman. Best known for his holocaust narratives "Maus" and "Maus II," Spiegelman's most recent book, "Breakdowns" is a collection of new and previously published work.
Host: Michael Krasny
More info:
• About the book "Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!" : at Amazon.com

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