War Cost, Olympic Athlete Finances, Canada's Missing Indigenous

Cost of War Project Guest: Neta Crawford, PhD, Professor of Political Science at Boston University, Co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute A heartbreaking image of a young boy, dazed, bleeding and covered in dust after a bombing in Aleppo has swept around the internet, prompting calls for a more concerted effort to end the conflict in Syria. It’s the war that captures most media attention right now, making it easy to forget that the US war in Afghanistan is nearing 15 years and violence is intensifying. Do Third-Party Candidates Matter? Guest: Barbara Perry, PhD, Director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and Co-chair of the Presidential Oral History Program Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are not the only candidates in the 2016 presidential race, though you wouldn’t know it from the majority of press coverage. There’s a Green Party Candidate named Jill Stein and a Libertarian named Gary Johnson who are currently capturing a combined 12 percent of the overall vote in polls. What’s the likelihood that either of them will manage to make an impact on the election in November? How Olympic Athletes Pay the Bills Guest: Edward Etzel, PhD, 1984 Gold Medalist in Olympic Sharpshooting for the United States, Professor of Sport and Exercise Psychology at West Virginia University First comes the gold medal. Then comes the Wheaties box. Then comes a life of fame and wealth, right? Well, there may be some truth to that in the short-term if you’re Michael Phelps or Simone Biles. But the vast majority of US athletes who land atop a medals podium in Rio will not get rich from being at the top of their sport. Canada’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Guest: Kathryn Blaze Baum, National Reporter for The Globe and Mail The official count from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is that some 1,200 indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered during the past 30 years, but the actual number could be closer to 4,000 according to research by