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The San Diego Opera opens their 2010 season with Giacomo Puccini's classic La Bohème. We'll talk with members of the cast, including San Diego-based soprano Priti Gandhi, who performs the role of the irrepressible flirt Musetta in La Bohème. We'll also talk with San Diego Opera's Dr. Nic Reveles about why La Bohème is such an enduring story.

Religion professor Richard Hughes critiques the powerful and potentially dangerous myth of America as a Christian nation.

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With a NATO war in Afghanistan, the U.S. war in Iraq, in addition to battles between Pakistan and the Taliban, and skirmishes in many Arab countries, questions have surfaced about the role of religion in international conflict. Karen Armstrong, author of several books on religion, takes on the topic of God and war in a recent article of Foreign Policy Magazine.

A stand-up comedian gets sued over a mother-in law joke; a jury is made to swear it won't "google;" and a cutback in hiring may signal another Supreme Court Justice is about to retire. It's time to talk about some of the most fascinating current legal issues with These Days legal analyst, Dan Eaton.

Zoë Heller's "The Believers" may not have the most lovable characters in literature, but they sure captivated blogger and CityBeat columnist Aaryn Belfer. Even more captivating, according to Aaryn, is Heller's writing. Culture Lust continues talking books this week with a recommendation from one of our contributors.

San Diego's Muslim community continues to deal with stigma and misconceptions as a result of 9/11. We speak with a local imam and others within the Muslim community about what it means to be a Muslim in San Diego and how their community is affected by the long wars in the Middle East.

Influential conservative columnist Robert Novak, who covered Washington politics for a half-century, died Tuesday morning after suffering from brain cancer. Few Washington journalists had a tougher public reputation than Novak.

The killings of an abortion provider, an Army recruiter and a guard at the Holocaust Museum provide sobering reminders of extremist sentiments in the nation's dark corners. Some blame vitriolic speech for helping stoke those sentiments; others warn that suppressing it would be worse.