Conservative historian Larry Schweikart tackles some of the key issues confronting our nation today: education, government bailouts, gun control, health care and the environment in What Would The Founders Say?

There is a  huge fight over labor unions and their role. Protests that began in Madison, Wisconsin have spread to other capitals but  are unions becoming the scapegoats for state budget shortfalls? Ben Manski, executive director of the Liberty Tree Foundation and a spokesperson for Wisconsin Wave says that this could mean the end of  the middle class. Later, Joseph Nye shows us how to better understand world affairs in the twenty -first century in The Future of Power.

The internet will set us free—or will it? In The Net Delusion,  journalist and social commentator Evgeny Morozov shows that by falling for the supposedly democratizing nature of the internet, Western do-gooders may have missed how it also entrenches dictators, threatens dissidents, and makes it harder—not easier—to promote democracy.

Abortion policy in this country does not treat all women equally and the Hyde Amendment prohibits Medicaid from covering abortion care in almost all circumstances. Jessica Arons with the Center for American Progress talks about the impact the amendment has on women of color. Later, columnist, author and retired USAF Lt.Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski tells us what should be done to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

In arguably the most radical book published in decades, The Anti-American Manifesto, cartoonist/columnist Ted Rall has produced the book he was always meant to write: a new manifesto for an America heading toward economic and political collapse.

Tom Engelhardt is the creator and editor of the website TomDispatch and his latest book is The American Way of War. Did Bush’s wars become Obama’s? At the half, retired Colonel and professor Andrew Bacevich critically examines the Washington consensus on national security and why it must change in Washington Rules.

Pat Tillman walked away from a multimillion-dollar NFL contract to join the Army and became an icon of post-9/11 patriotism. When he was killed in Afghanistan two years later, a legend was born. The real Pat Tillman was much more remarkable, and considerably more complicated than the public knew and best selling author Jon Krakauer gives us a stunning account in Where Men Win Glory.

Tortured is an eye-opening exposé of America’s torture regime and now most Americans believe that what we did was wrong. Investigative journalist and author, Justine Sharrock takes us behind the scenes with the personal stories of four American soldiers who were on the frontline of the “war on terror,” including the Abu Ghraib whistleblower. They reveal how their orders came from the top with assurances that those orders were legal and how their experiences left them emotionally scarred.

In Surrender, author Bruce  Bawer shows us how silence, fear and political correctness in our media, government and even our academic institutions will make us the victims to a new form of  jihad that targets our most valuable civil right— free speech. Later at the half, writer and author Karen Valby had the task of finding an American town untouched by popular culture. She discovered Utopia, Texas and despite having no movie theater, bookstore, or music store, was rapidly changing due to 2 wars and the arrival of modern technology. What is the stereotypical small town and how is that role is changing? Her new book Welcome to Utopia focuses on 4 of the residents who are happy to stay and those who long to leave.

Medea Benjamin, peace activist and co-founder of CodePink joins us to talk about why we should be out of Afghanistan and why no one seems to be focused on the war torn country. Has the President been a huge disappointment in the way he has handled this issue? Later in the hour, we’ll talk to  Scott Michelman, staff attorney with the ACLU about a lawsuit that was filed in Michigan on behalf of a man who was fired from his job at Wal-Mart. The man tested positive for drugs even though the retail giant knew that he used medical marijuana for an inoperable brain tumor.