The definitive history of heavy metal and what it’s always been about.

Oklahoma’s monster tornado. The president on counterterrorism. A vote on gay Boy Scouts.

Rock-hard bodies in a fraction of the time. We’ll look at the 7-minute workout and the promises of high-intensity exercise.

Congress says food stamps are costing the country too much and debating big cuts. One in every seven Americans is using them to eat. What’s going on?

After Oklahoma’s giant twister, does Tornado Alley need to change the way it builds and lives in the age of superstorms?

Apple in the hot seat. Lawmakers say the company dodged billions in taxes on overseas profits. We’ll look at the world of off shore tax escapes.

The controversial and brilliant Henry Ford and the world he invented.

New Yorker writer George Packer’s inside history of the great unwinding of America’s 20th century way of life and where we stand now.

Solving the U.S. military’s sex abuse problem. We look at the chain of command issue and what needs to change

North America as the new fossil fuel powerhouse. We’ll look at the blessing, the curse and how it may reshape geopolitics and energy politics.

Great quotations. What makes them? And how they shape our language and our view of the world

IRS and AP scandals. White House damage control. More military sex abuse. Angelina Jolie. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

The wizard of pop. From “Raindrops” to “Walk On By.” Burt Bacharach joins us with his new memoir of a life in music.

Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on how student debt is crushing the American dream, and what to do about it.

How an Arizona retirement home has found a kinder, gentler way to take care of patients with dementia.

Uproar over the IRS and its inquiries. Over snooping on the AP. We tackle both.

The mother of all diversity: nature. Her most fantastic creatures and how they’re faring now.

All- time highs in the stock market lately. We ask why, and whether it says recovery or bubble. PLUS: Angelina Jolie’s decision to have a double mastectomy.

A new book says rationing—of food, energy and more—is in our future. We hear the case, and the pushback.

Hope and fear in Pakistan. An historic election day and high stakes all over. We go there.

“The Great Gatsby” is back. On the big screen. We’ll revisit the tale, from F. Scott Fitzgerald to Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Cleveland horrors. Dow 15,000. More sexual assault in the U.S. military. Mark Sanford. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

Big Chris Christie, New Jersey governor, has had weight-loss surgery. We’ll look at the buzz and controversy around gastric bypass surgery, lapbands and more.

Benghazi, again. New hearings this week on the attacks and the aftermath. We look at the facts and factionalism.

Bees disappearing. Cicadas coming out. A new generation of scientists coming up. We’ll talk with super-biologist E.O. Wilson about our future and nature.

The sales tax and the Internet. The Senate’s given a green light. We’ll look at the implications.

The future of the library in the digital age.

The high-tech end of immigration reform. Silicon Valley is buying a lot of access on Capitol Hill. They want more to welcome more foreign engineers. We’ll look at why.

Homer’s “Iliad” made new. A one-man performance brings the ancient tale home for modern men and women.

The Guantanamo horror show. Prisoners on a hunger strike and big questions about justice and what to do with the detainees.

Here comes the big travel season. We look at how global tourism is changing the world.

More arrests in the marathon bombing case. The red line and Syria. The morning-after pill.

The string quartet that plays the world. Brooklyn Rider.

Barack Obama and presidential leadership. The “juice” question. Does he have it?

Why do so many kids have food allergies? We explore cutting-edge treatments and impact on families, schools and more.

Housing prices break out of their slump. We look at the rebound and what it means for the nation’s recovery.

Poems about her divorce just won Sharon Olds a Pulitzer Prize. She joins us.

NBA Center Jason Collins comes out. We talk about what it means to be openly gay in sports and beyond.

A battle at the University of Texas over the future of higher education. And whether job training will trump everything else.

The question over Syria. Chemical weapons use has been charged. The “red line,” but uncertain. Should the US intervene?

How humans think. The human brain as an analogy machine.

Charges in the Boston bombing. Chemical weapons use charged in Syria. Twitter is hacked and stock markets shudder.

Inside North Korea. We talk with the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Orphan Masters Son.

Super attorney Alan Dershowitz on terrorism, American law, and the Boston bombing.

The end of big: does technology spell the end of big companies, big institutions, big politics? And is David the new Goliath?

Tom Friedman lays out why a carbon tax could save America.

Bestselling author Isabel Allende’s novel of a Chilean grandmother saving a granddaughter who’s down and out in Las Vegas.

A big, bipartisan push on immigration reform got sidelined by the Boston attacks. It’s back in play this week. We take its measure.

Washington Post editor Fred Hiatt’s latest novel tells the fictional tale of a girl’s search for her missing father in China. We’ll talk with him and the real woman behind the story.

We’ll look deep into their worlds for clues, motives, and the latest on the investigation.

This hour, On Point: capturing the last great images of traditional native America. (Rebroadcast from October, 22nd, 2012)

7pm Special Broadcast: The massive manhunt for the Boston bombing suspect. The latest news and a closer look at what we’re learning about the suspect.

We’re on the scene with the very latest developments on the Boston bombing aftermath and hunt. Top experts and reporters join us.

Lockdown and manhunt in Boston. We’ve got a team of reporters with the latest and all the week’s news.

Enough with the “always on” digital world. Pico Iyer is unplugging. He’s with us.

Writers Dennis Lehane and Anita Shreve, musician Amanda Palmer and Car Talk’s Ray Magliozzi on the heart of Boston after the marathon bombings.