The future of the Middle East depends in large part on how Islamic societies treat women. Iraqi-American Yasmine Rassam of the Independent Women’s Forum (www.iwf.org) provides an insight as to what is happening within various countries and whether Islam is going to reform itself.

Then hear from former CBS news correspondent Dave Dolan
(www.ddolan.com) in Jerusalem for a portrait of items the media didn’t cover during the recent war between Hisbollah and Israel.

Finally, John does an extended boralogue examining some of the Bill of Rights and why these were put into the Constitution in the first place. This is part of an ongoing theme this summer.

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