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New cabinet picks. Joe Biden’s gun summits. The flu hits hard. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.
Breakout novelist Ayana Mathis and her raw telling of African-America’s great northern migration in “The Twelve Tribes of Hattie.”
American drought and the mighty Mississippi. Running low. We’re looking at climate change, commerce and the fight over water on the Big Muddy.
Ai Weiwei, China’s most famous living artist and most creative political dissident joins us from Beijing for a rare appearance in American media.
New music for a new year.
Are online dating services undermining American monogamy?
We talk with actor Jeff Bridges about Zen Buddhism and “The Big Lebowski.”
Republican former Sen. Chuck Hagel and the nomination for secretary of defense. We’ll hear supporters and critics.
Last year we looked ahead to the possibility of devastating droughts becoming the new normal in big parts of the country. 
A new Bowie song out, a new album to come. Listen back to our hour on the Thin White Duke. 
In the wake of our great interview with George Takei, remember when we had William Shatner on too? 
Singer Patti Page has died. She joined us in 2010 for our discussion on music producer Mitch Miller. 
New studies shed doubts on the big claims of many energy drinks. We looked at the issue last year. 
