A U.S. offensive in Afghanistan. Al Franken heads to the Senate. Mark Sanford keeps talking. And unemployment keeps rising. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

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.

Globalization backlash. A new critique out of the third world and black America.

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

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.

Protests rock Iran. New regs for Wall Street. And new gay rights for federal employees. Our news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

President Obama rolls out the biggest financial market regulation revamp since the Great Depression. Is it enough? Too much? We’ll dig in.

Big banks bolt TARP. CEOs get a pay czar. Iran goes to the polls. And a deadly shooting in Washington. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

General Motors or Government Motors? GM is staring at bankruptcy — and Uncle Sam may soon own 70 percent. Is this a new era of state capitalism?

Democrats defy Obama on Guantanamo. The president speaks. Detroit emissions get a haircut. Iran tests a missile. It’s the weekly news roundtable.

High-flying British historians Simon Schama and Niall Ferguson join us to debate the American future.

California votes down a tax hike and looks for a federal bailout. We’ll ask where this story ends.

Ed Andrews, economics reporter for The New York Times, tells us his personal home foreclosure story.

Obama puts the brakes on photos of abuse. Health care and Wall Street get wake-up calls. An Afghan commander gets the boot. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

We’ll look at a nation moving from instant gratification to an age of thrift, and the psychology of self-control.

We’ll go deep on one man’s tough quest to harness the wind for American power.

The New York Times’ David Leonhardt on the economy. The Washington Post’s Perry Bacon on politics. And Jack Beatty on it all.

When free market champion Richard Posner says capitalism has failed, you sit up and listen. And we will.

Credit card reform is hot on Capitol Hill. Consumers stand to get protections. But banks say it’s the wrong reform, at the wrong time. We’ll hear the debate.

GM and Chrysler prepare for bankruptcy, with a push from Washington. We’ll look at the government’s hand in Detroit’s future, and what it means for the industry.