History has shown that making the adjustment from “GI Joe” to ordinary Joe has never been easy. And the new generation of Iraq war veterans are no exception.
There are reports of substance abuse, marital problems, flashbacks and other signs that prove that, whatever happened on the battlefront, all is not well on the home front.
Are [...]

Bibles to Baghdad. A new flock of missionaries is taking the Gospel to Islamic nations. A look inside Christian evangelism in the Muslim world.
Guests:
David Van Biema, staff writer, Time Magazine, author of “Should Christians Convert Muslims?” in the latest issue of Time
Hussein Ibish, communications director, American-Arab Anti-Descrimination Committee
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For more than thirty years, foreign correspondent Jim Sterba has brought the world home to readers of the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He has covered the Vietnam War, famine in Africa, student protests in Tiananmen Square — to name a few highlights of an illustrious career.
Now, Jim Sterba is looking inward [...]

At least one American has been killed and eight others wounded in the latest round of escalating violence in Iraq. Tom Ricks, military correspondent for The Washington Post, gives an update on what the Pentagon is making of these developments.
Guests:
Tom Ricks, military correspondent for The Washington Post

“Half in Love,” Maile Meloy’s 2001 collection of short stories, sparkled with spare writing and deep insight. Now Maile Meloy takes us on a four-generation family saga with her new book, “Liars and Saints.”
Guests:
Maile Meloy, author of “Liars and Saints”

The Fed has cut interest rates to the lowest level in 45 years. Where should you put your money now? Top financial planners weigh in.
Guests:
Gary Schatsky, financial advisor and founder of Independent Financial Counselors
Patricia Houlihan, president and chief executive officer, Houlihan Financial Resource Group
Deena Katz, certified financial planner and president of Evensky, Brown & Katz

Guests:
Greg Ip, economics reporter for The Wall Street Journal

The battle over genetically modifed foods is heating up, as the U.S. squares off against the EU at the Washington summit, and Environmental groups protest biotech giants at the conference on Agricultural Science and Technology in Sacramento.
The dialogue over GM foods is now hostage to the extremes on both sides says science author Peter Pringle. [...]

First-hand accounts of post-war Iraq from an A-list of foreign correspondents. Now back at their respective posts, we hear from reporters who walked with the troops, witnessed the chaos, and wonder at the future of a renewed nation.
Guests:
Adam Piore, General Editor, Newsweek
John Hendren, Pentagon Correspondent, LA Times
Ilene Prusher, Istanbul bureau chief, Christian Science Monitor
Yaroslav Trofimov, [...]

The World Health Organization says that by the year 2020 depression will be the second leading cause of disability world wide. Depression is already costing the U.S. $44 billion a year in lost workplace productivity annually. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association raises new questions on how effectively America [...]

Lying at the very heart of Africa, Congo’s history of dictators, coups, material wealth and plunder is a study in post-colonial history. Now, with more than three million dead in five years of fighting, history is being made again.
Guests:
Jason Beaubian, NPR Africa Correpondent
Philip Gourevitch, staff writer at “The New Yorker,” author of “We Wish to [...]

Howard Dean is galvanizing voters on the left with his firey antiwar stance. But does the former governor from Vermont hurt Democratic prospects in 2004?
Guests:
Ronald Brownstein, columnist, The Los Angeles Times
Matt Bai, contributing writer, The New York Times Magazine and author of a piece about Howard Dean in the June 1 issue of the [...]

The court did not rule out affirmative action as a whole. Instead, it acknowledged that universities can see racial diversity as an important goal. In one case, the court ruled that racial diversity can be considered a “compelling interest” of the university. In the case involving undergraduate admissions, the court ruled that a formal system [...]

Husband and wife duo Jay Ungar and Molly Mason perform some of the greatest songs of ’60s… 1860s that is. They share a mission of unearthing traditional American fiddle and dance gems from Civil war songs to New England contra songs to country swing tunes and bringing them to a new generation of listeners in [...]

Summer has arrived and it’s time to select the summer books that you finally have time to read.
Perhaps it’s Harry Potter and “The Order of the Phoenix,” or Carolyn Parkhurst’s “The Dogs of Babel.” In non-fiction there’s a new biography on Benjamin Franklin, Hillary Clinton’s memoir, and Sidney Blumenthal’s “The Clinton Wars.”
Click “Listen” above [...]

The author of many books, celebrated best-selling writer and novelist Isabel Allende tells her own story in her new memoir “My Invented Country.” It is the story of her living in and living in exile from her homeland, Chile.
The military coup of September 11, 1973 in Allende’s native country, Chile, claimed the life of her [...]

A draft of a soon-to-be published EPA report on the environment has been heavily edited by the White House to support the administration’s agenda. An internal EPA memo, leaked to “The New York Times,” protests the administration’s edits. As a result, some inside the EPA say, the draft “no longer accurately represents scientific consensus on [...]

American soldiers are getting killed or injured every day in Iraq. Is this a clean-up operation? Occupation? Or the tail-end of a war that’s not yet finished? John Diamond, Pentagon correspondent for USA Today, discusses the various inside views from the Pentagon.
Guests:
John Diamond, Pentagon correspondent for USA Today

General Wesley Clark is a former NATO supreme allied commander in Europe, a Rhodes scholar, businessman and political commentator, and perhaps, a future presidential candidate.
Click the “Listen” link to hear Gen. Clark talk about war, the world, and the White House.
Guests:
General Wesley K. Clark, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe, chairman and CEO of Wesley [...]

The Clinton Wars. From Whitewater to “that woman” to the Clinton legacy and beyond. Sidney Blumenthal, former White House advisor and Clinton-devotee, makes the case for Bill and Hillary.
Guests:
Sidney Blumenthal, author of “The Clinton Wars”
Jack Beatty, On Point news analyst and senior editor at the Atlantic Monthly