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Warren Buffett’s multi-billion dollar donation to charity is just the latest in a trend of millionaires and billionaires “giving away” their fortunes. With more and more households reaching the multi-million dollar mark, we’ll look at what some call the ‘new golden age of philanthropy”. Also, who’s giving, who’s receiving and where it may make a difference. Laura's guests are Lew Feldstein, President of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. Paul Schervish, Professor of Sociology and Director on the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston College. We'll also be joined by Pablo Eisenberg, Senior Fellow at the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, and a Founder of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy.

With educators needing to complete yearly school progress reports, yearly student reports, and personalized student plans, some worry that too much accountability is leading to too little educating. We'll look at when school accountability is an effective educational tool and when it becomes a bureaucratic burden. Laura's guests are Michael Sentance, Secretary's Regional Representative for New England for the U.S. Department of Education, and Charles Ott, a program director for the Strafford Learning Center in Somersworth and a former school superintendent. We'll also hear from Neal Kurk, State Representative from Weare and a member of a National Conference of State Legislatures Task Force that studied the No Child Left Behind Act, and Ross Weiner, policy director for The Education Trust, an education advocacy group in Washington, D.C.

The U.S. soccer team has once again made it to the World Cup, the international equivalent of the Super Bowl of Soccer. While hoping to quiet the snickers of more traditionally soccer-crazed countries like Brazil and Portugal, the American team's crushing loss to the Czech Republic in their first game may have set the stage for an early exit this year. We'll look at why there's so much buzz about our team, if the soccer bug has caught on in the States...and how our country fits into a soccer landscape that is dominated by European culture and tradition. Laura's guests are Dave Wasser, Soccer Historian who maintains an online archive of soccer videos and who also runs the North American Soccer League Alumni Association and Seamus Malin, long time Soccer Analyst for ABC and ESPN Sports.

It’s been slow-going for the Bush Administration’s attempts to halt Iran’s uranium enrichment programs. And now, North Korea’s government may be preparing for a long-range missile test. Today on the Exchange, we’ll look at the nuclear ambitions of these two countries and what the US and its allies are doing in response. Laura's guests are David Kang, Associate Professor of Government and Research Director for the Center for International Business at Dartmouth College and Wayne Lesperance, Professor of Political Science at New England College.

The award winning documentary "The War Tapes" follows three New Hampshire National Guardsmen as they videotape their one year at camp Anaconda in Iraq's Sunni Triangle. We’ll talk with these soldiers about what they saw and what they think about their experiences now that they're home. Jon Greenberg hosts. His guests are Specialist , A 36 year-old former Guardsman living in Winsor. Michael joined the National Guard in 1989 for four years then re-enlisted after September 11th. He served his time in Iraq for the "Charlie Company" 172nd Mountain Infantry. Staff Sergeant Zack Bazzi, Currently a 27 year-old student at UNH. Zach first joined the military for four years with the 101st Airborne, then joined the New Hampshire National Guard Infantry Company. In Iraq, he served as a Humvee commander and team leader. Also we'll be joined by Sergeant Steve Pink, who spent six years in the National Guard and in Iraq was a Sergeant E-5 Team Leader. Steve now makes his home on Cape Cod as a Carpenter.

NOTE: "The War Tapes" will have it's opening night on June 22nd at the Red River Theatres at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord. At the 7:00 pm screening, you can meet the soldiers of the New Hampshire National Guard from C Company, 3rd of the 172nd Mountain Infantry plus the New Hampshire based director, Deborah Scranton, Vermonter Exec Producer Chuck Lacy, and Major Greg Heilshorn the Public Affairs Officer of the New Hampshire National Guard. They'll be there to talk about the making of the movie and the soldiers' deployment in Iraq.