Syrian peace talks got off to a rocky start in Kazakhstan. The Mexican president cancels a trip to the White House after reiterating that he's not paying for a border wall. And Russian lawmakers move forward with plans to decriminalize some forms of domestic violence. A panel of journalists joins Joshua Johnson for analysis of the week's top international news stories.

It's been a week dominated by talk of walls and waterboarding, as well as refugee bans, torn-up trade deals and a big debate over when to call something a "lie." A panel of journalists joins Joshua Johnson for analysis of the week's top national news stories.

Too often when you see a Muslim character on a TV show, he is a terrorist. We'll talk about the long effort to portray Muslims fairly in Hollywood and why such narrow depictions are particularly dangerous in an age of Islamophobia.

President Trump has moved ahead with plans to build a border wall. Is this the best way to fix our broken immigration system?

OK Go's music videos are designed to dazzle. Their most recent, for the song "Upside Down and Inside Out," literally takes viewers to new heights with the use of parabolic flight to create weightlessness. That video earned the band and Trish Sie the Smithsonian Magazine 2016 American Ingenuity Award for Visual Arts. Joshua sits down with OK Go's lead singer Damian Kulash, bassist Tim Nordwind and video director and cinematographer Trish Sie, to discuss what drives them to push artistic boundaries in their work.

Steven Johnson is fascinated about ideas. His latest book “Wonderland" charts the human impulse to play. In particular, how play has shaped our world and led to our greatest discoveries. Johnson is an historian and argues that play, our pursuit of surprise, pleasure, pure and simple joy is the soup from which the most amazing advances and innovations rise.