Journalist and author Rick Bragg joins us to talk about his Deep South memoir of a difficult father, “The Prince of Frogtown.”

Housing prices nationwide continue to plummet in the latest numbers. We’ll check in around the country from Boston to L.A., and in between, to ask if housing is finally bottoming out.

A new book on parenting says you can shrug off the culture of “cool” and nurture well-rounded kids in a grow-up-too-fast world. We’ll talk with the author — and you.

We talk with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi about her rise to power, battles with Bush, an unpopular Congress, and the ‘08 elections.

If you landed at onpointradio.org and wondered what had happened — well, don’t worry, you’ve got the right address. We’ve just replaced the old edifice with something a little more, shall we say, architecturally ambitious. Call it our own small version of Web 2.0…

Are you a multi-slacker? A matador? A frazz master? We’ll look at the weird new vocabulary of today’s business world.

A huge immigration raid on an Iowa meatpacking plant in May sent shockwaves all the way to Washington. Now come stark revelations on conditions in that plant.

Philippe Petit walked a high wire between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Now they’re gone. He looks back, in an acclaimed new documentary, “Man on Wire.”

The Beijing Olympics are about to open. Whatever happened to all the campaigns to leverage China on Darfur, Tibet, and more, with the Games?

A defense of marriage. A new book says staying in that long-term relationship can give purpose and meaning.

Obama abroad. McCain on the homefront. The House passes a housing bill. Karadzic caught. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

We sat down with California poet Kay Ryan, recently named the next poet laureate of the United States, to talk about her wordplay, her worldview, and where it all comes from.

Oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky was once the richest man in Russia. Now he’s in prison and desperate to get out. We talk with the Bronx attorney who’s his lead legal strategist about power and the law in oil-rich Russia.

Filling the ranks in wartime. We talk with a US Army recruiter, his recruit, and the film director who features them up close in a new HBO documentary, “The Recruiter.”

Days of reckoning in Detroit. With gas topping $4, and Ford announcing historic changes, we look at shrinking American cars and carmakers, and whether they can make the turn.

The environment and the green grass of home. Will Americans ever let go of their lawns?

With Senator Obama in Middle East, we look at what a President Obama’s real options would be in the tough terrain from Israel to Islamabad.

Physics and the presidency. A top scientist says our challenges require breakthroughs.

The United States is for sale. Budweiser’s Belgian now. A lot more is on the block. We ask what it means for Americans as the world buys us up.

A new film shows off the soft side of Genghis Khan. We talk with the director of “Mongol.”