John Woestendiek takes readers behind the scenes of the emerging dog cloning industry in Dog, Inc., a fascinating look at how our emotional needs are bending the reaches of science and technology.

The government will lift the ban on killing horses for meat and Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society of the U.S. is not happy about the decision. Later, Natalie Hopkinson with the Interactivity Foundation will tell us why school choice fails.

The Tiger is John Vaillant‘s gripping tale of man pitted against nature’s most fearsome and efficient predator.

Juliet Eilperin, the national environmental reporter for The Washington Post offers us a close- up and in- depth understanding of sharks in Demon Fish.

Two time Grammy winner and funnyman, Ray Stevens provides comedic relief with his politically charged hits. Later in The Bedbug Survival Guide, Jeff Eisenberg shares his best strategies, advice and tips for treating and preventing bed bug infestation once and for all.

President Obama has lifted the ban on military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay and Hina Shamsi with the ACLU tells us why she’s not happy with that decision. Then, Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, unveils the deep links of the human-animal connection, as well as the conflicting impulses that have led us to betray this kinship through widespread and systemic cruelty to animals in The Bond.

The ACLU wants Chicago to stop installing new cameras to the city’s surveillance network because it’s an invasion of privacy and there is a  potential for wrongful conduct. Adam Schwartz with the ACLU joins us. Then later, Mike Mease with the Buffalo Field Campaign tells us why a judge’s ruling  to continue the slaughter of Bison who roam Yellowstone is not welcomed.

The Smithsonian’s Mark Moffett has been called the  “the Indiana Jones of entomology,” and he takes us on an exciting  journey in which we find that ants have invented highways and infrastructure, traffic rules, voting and market economies, livestock domestication and large-scale agriculture, slavery, warfare and terrorism, and even smart public health policies years before humans came on the scene in Adventure Among Ants.

All people who love animals can agree with author, Wesley J. Smith that human beings owe animals respect, kindness, and humane care. But he argues in A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy, that our obligation to humanity matters more, and that granting rights to animals would inevitably diminish human dignity.

CAL State University professor and author James William Gibson talks about environmental conflicts in A Reenchanted World.