November 30, 2012 - This week on the Friday Roundtable, our panelists will look at the controversy over Susan Rice, the ethics of drones and other foreign policy challenges facing President Obama as he prepares for his second term. Today, a special Roundtable on foreign policy: Egypt, Russia, Iran, and Israel. We'll also talk about drones and human rights. And I want to ask the Roundtablers about the countries that aren't, but should be, higher on the American foreign policy agenda.
April 8, 2010 - Nick Hayes, professor of history at Saint John's University in Collegeville, joins Midday in the studio to talk about his memoir "And One Fine Morning: Memories of My Father." The book traces his family origins and his father's story, including his father's experience growing up Catholic in Protestant Minneapolis.
March 25, 2008 - Midday remembers Jon Hassler in his own words, rebroadcasting an interview he did with MPR in 1999. Midday host Mike Edgerly then talks with two of Hassler's longtime friends - Bill Holm, a fellow Minnesota literary figure and author of Windows of Brimnes: An American In Iceland;” and Nick Hayes, friend and colleague of Hassler, and a professor at St. John's University. The two remark on the impact of his work, both as a writer and a teacher.
April 24, 2007 - Speaking hours after the announcement of former Russian President Boris Yeltsin's death, Vladimir Putin, the current president, praised Yeltsin for ushering in "a whole new epoch" for "a democratic Russia." What is Yeltsin's legacy, and what will Putin's be?
March 27, 2000 - On this Midday program, Nick Hayes, history professor at Hamline University, gives an analysis of the Russian elections in which Russia's new president-elect Vladimir Putin won a majority of the vote in presidential election.
December 31, 1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigned this morning. Melor Sturua of the University of Minnnesota Humphrey Institute and a columnist for Isvestia; Nick Hayes, Hamline University History Professor, and Patrick Dale, St. Olaf College professor, join to discuss.
July 30, 1999 - World leaders, including President Clinton and the Russian Prime Minister, are holding a summit in Sarajevo to seek stability in the Balkans. We'll discuss the prospects with Hamline University History professor Nick Hayes, who will join us from Banja Luca, Bosnia. Hayes has been spending the past week in Kosovo and Macedonia.
September 27, 1996 - Midday discusses foreign policy issues the U.S. President will face in the next term. Guests are Martin Sampson, political science professor at the University of Minnesota; Roy Grow, international relations instructor at Carleton College; Norma Noonan, political science instructor at Augsburg College; Nick Hayes, history professor at Hamline University; and Barbara Frey, executive director of Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.
June 17, 1996 - Midday’s Gary Eichten discusses the results of the Russian presidential election with guest Nick Hayes, live from Moscow. Hayes is a history professor at Hamline University in St. Paul. He has lived and traveled in Russia and studied Russian politics and culture for many years.
November 20, 1995 - Nick Hayes, history professor at Hamline University, discusses the prospects for peace in the former Yugoslavia, with Bosnian peace talks being held at Wright-Patterson Air Force base in Ohio. Hayes also answers listener questions.