We’ll talk with the founder of Pandora, the online music service that claims it knows what you’ll want to hear.

Obama in China. Healthcare crunch time in the Senate. And the mammogram controversy rages on. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

Vladimir Nabokov’s last, unfinished work — just published, against his dying wishes. We’ll ask how it alters our view of Lolita’s creator.

Controversial new guidelines call for fewer mammograms for women. Is this good medicine? Is it the future of healthcare?

Marine Sergeant Jeremiah Workman fought in Fallujah. Won the Navy Cross – and a brutal case of PTSD. He’ll tell his story.

Sarah Palin back in the spotlight. We’ll look at the Palin odyssey, the Palin memoir, and Sarah Palin’s political future.

Americans are turning back to old-fashioned tinkering and hands-on innovation. We’ll ask what a new burst of grassroots engineering might mean for the U.S. economy.

Alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will face trial in a federal courtroom in New York City. We’ll look at the case — and the choice to bring the trial to New York.

We’ll talk with author Jonathan Safran Foer about meat, vegetables and his tough new book, “Eating Animals.”

Fort Hood questions. Afghanistan options and healthcare reform meets abortion politics. Our news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Before Jon Stewart there was The Onion. We’ll talk with writers for the satirical news site about their brand of fake-news humor.

President Obama makes his first trip to Asia. We’ll look at his agenda, and the rising power of the East.

From a Cape Cod cottage to the Guggenheim Bilbao, the New Yorker’s Paul Goldberger on why architecture matters.

Terry Harrington was framed by prosecutors and served 25 years for murder before his conviction was overturned. Now that framing is before the Supreme Court, and Harrington tells us his story.

As swine flu spreads, we’ll look at diseases that jump from animals to humans. How does it happen, what makes them dangerous, and what’s next?

Insider trading on Wall Street. We’ll draw back the curtain on the Galleon case, the role of hedge funds, and what it all means for the rest of us.

Can California’s new energy economy — green economy — save the Golden State? The nation? We’ll go to California to ask the questions.

Horror at Fort Hood, Texas – a mass killing by one of the Army’s own. We’ll look at the tragedy, its meaning, and its impact on the US military.