Veteran journalist and Truthdig editor, Robert Scheer talks about his latest book, The Great American Stickup. Then, just how bad are public school lunches? Sarah Wu goes undercover  in Fed Up With Lunch, an eye-opening account of what kids are being served in school cafeterias.

The end of the cold war was thought to signal the triumph of Western capitalism over Communism. In Maonomics , Loretta Napoleoni argues what we are witnessing instead is the beginning of the collapse of capitalism and the victory of “communism with a profit motive.

Economist and NY Times columnist Robert H. Frank on what Charles Darwin can teach us about building a better society in The Darwin Economy.

Age of Greed is Jeff Madrick‘s  vividly told history of how greed bred America’s economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them.

Susan M. Wachter, a leader in the field of real estate and finance, examines key elements of the mortgage meltdown in The American Mortgage System.

Stephen Glain‘s State vs. Defense characterizes all the great figures who crafted American foreign policy, from George Marshall to Robert McNamara to Henry Kissinger to Don Rumsfeld with this underlying theme: America has become increasingly imperial and militaristic.

Don Peck’s Pinched keenly observes how the recession has changed the places we live, the work we do, and even who we are–and details the transformations that are yet to come. Later, Rosanne Cash, the  firstborn to country music legend Johnny Cash, chronicles her life and relationship with her father in Composed.

The Declaration of Independents is a witty, contrarian libertarian manifesto on American politics and co-author Matt Welch is perfectly primed to discuss the Republic presidential candidates and all things political.

Former Sarah Palin insider, Frank Bailey gives an explosive, up close view of the ex-governor in Blind Allegiance. Then, Tom Schatz with Citizens Against Government Waste joins us to talk about Congress still funneling money into projects of their choosing despite ban.

In The Wizard of Lies, Diana Henriques of the New York Times has written the definitive book on Bernie Madoff the man and his scheme, drawing on unprecedented access and more than one hundred interviews with people at all levels and on all sides of the crime. Later, neuroscientists Sai Gaddam and Ogi Ogas have written A Billion Wicked Thoughts and w hat they found will profoundly alter the way we think about sex and human relationships.