A conversation with Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing about the lives her parents might have lived, and the truth of who they became.

Beyond the “Russian Bear” cliches. We’ll talk with an architect of NATO’s expansion, and one of the policy’s top critics, about what Russia’s invasion of Georgia really means for the West.

One man, twenty-one thousand pages. When author Ammon Shea set out to read the entire Oxford English Dictionary, it did more than enrich his vocabulary. He’ll tell us why.

Inflation accelerated in July at the fastest pace in seventeen years. We’ll look at the impact on American consumers — and the economy.