“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” the Swedish thriller that’s sweeping the globe — and the death of its author, Stieg Larsson.

The health care climax looms. The president signs a jobs bill. And murder in Mexico hits home. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

The Obama administration wants to rewrite No Child Left Behind. We’ll ask what’s coming for American education.

Top Pentagon brass complain the Israel-Palestinian impasse is undermining American interests. We’ll look at the US-Israel moment of crisis.

We’ll talk with tenor saxophone great Sonny Rollins about his six decades at the pinnacle of jazz.

For more than a decade Ireland boomed. It was Europe’s Celtic Tiger. Then it came crashing down. We’ll look at Ireland’s wild rise, and what went wrong.

Blogger and lexicographer Ben Zimmer takes over William Safire’s language column. We’ll catch the new wave of American language.

Senator Chris Dodd finally unveils his bill to rewrite the nation’s Wall Street regulation. Is it tough enough to do the job?

Novelist T.C. Boyle on his book “The Women,” and the tempestuous love life of Frank Lloyd Wright. (Rebroadcast)

Country’s in a crunch. We’ll sit down with young Americans — “millennials,” age 18 to 29 — to hear how they see the nation and their future.

AfroReggae’s music takes on the drug lords in the streets of Rio. We’ll hear the battle.

Earmarks in the hot seat. Joe Biden in Israel. “Jihad Jane” in Pennsylvania. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Are Americans angrier than ever, or does it just seem that way? We’ll look at our hot-under-the-collar country.

Think tanks in Washington are playing out the scenarios of an Israeli attack on Iran. We’ll look at the tough results they’ve found.

Acclaimed author Chang-Rae Lee on love and war in his new novel, “The Surrendered.”