Housing prices nationwide continue to plummet in the latest numbers. We'll check in around the country from Boston to LA, and in between, to ask if housing is finally bottoming out.

Author Rick Bragg on his Deep South memoir of a difficult father "The Prince of Frogtown."

A new book on parenting says you can shrug off the culture of "cool" and nurture well-rounded kids in a grow-up-too-fast world.

We talk with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi about her rise to power, battles with Bush, an unpopular Congress, and the '08 elections.

A huge immigration raid on an Iowa meatpacking plant in May sent shockwaves all the way to Washington. Now, stark revelations on conditions in that plant. We investigate.

Are you a multi-slacker? A matador? A frazz master? We'll look at the weird new vocabulary of today's business world.

The Beijing Olympics are about to open. Whatever happened to all the campaigns to leverage China -- on Darfur and more -- with the Games?

Philippe Petit walked a high wire between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Now they're gone. He looks back.

Obama abroad. McCain on the homefront. The House passes a housing bill. Karadzic caught. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines.

A defense of marriage. A new book says staying in that long-term relationship can give purpose and meaning.

Oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky was once the richest man in Russia. Now he's in prison and desperate to get out. We talk with the Bronx attorney who's his lead strategist about power and the law in oil-rich Russia.

We sit down with Kay Ryan, the next poet laureate of the United States.