Author Rick Bass walks us through the changing seasons of the Montana wilderness, in his new book, “The Wild Marsh.”

Former FDA chief David Kessler took on Big Tobacco. Now he tells us how the food industry plays with our brain chemistry, and turns us into hyper-eaters.

Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips explains how kindness went out of fashion, and why we need it more than ever.

Barack Obama came to Washington promising serious action on climate change. The climate bill that passed the House last Friday is hailed as an historic first step. We’ll look at what’s in it, what it’s up against, and whether it’s enough.

The ‘King of Pop,’ dead at 50. We’ll look back at the career, the image, the person, and the impact on popular music.

On Point and Planet Money, together at last! We talk with NPR’s Adam Davidson and David Kestenbaum about what they’ve learned covering the economic crisis, and where it’s going.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, top economic and policy advisor to the 2008 McCain campaign, on Obama’s agenda — and the future of the GOP.

Novelist Joseph O’Neill’s award-winning novel, “Netherland,” has been on the president’s nightstand. We talk with O’Neill, and with writer James McBride, about its themes of American identity.

Nearly half the world lives on two dollars a day – or less. We’ll look at exactly how they do that. It’s surprising.

We talk with classical guitar virtuoso Eliot Fisk, about the guitar as bridge between cultures. Plus: video of Fisk performing an encore in our studio.

The passage of the House climate bill – discussed in our first hour today – has been greeted with enthusiasm in many quarters. But in some ways, the real question is whether a global framework can be established in Copenhagen in December, when countries will negotiate a new international treaty to curb greenhouse gases.

The week-in-the-news roundtable always involves tough choices on sound clips – what to include, what to leave out. Amid all the pressing hard news, we often give a nod to a notable person who’s passed away. But this week brought, well, a ridiculous range of choices.

On Wednesday night, June 24, On Point will tape a show before an audience in Boston with two stars of NPR’s “Planet Money,” Adam Davidson and David Kestenbaum. We need your online questions to put to them — about anything from the roots of the economic crisis to NPR’s coverage.

Call it a literary mashup hour. We asked author Joseph O’Neill, whose novel “Netherland” President Obama has been reading, and James McBride — of “The Color of Water” fame — to take a look at one another’s books and do a show together. They said, “sure!”

Midway in our first hour today, we had a robust exchange between Rev. Katherine Ragsdale and progressive evangelical Jim Wallis over finding “common ground” on the abortion issue.

Last week, we had a tremendous response to our show on summer books. Many people wanted to know more about the books that On Point listeners were talking about. Here are the “listener picks” that you heard on air.