Peter Laufer's new book, "Mission Rejected," profiles American soldiers who are speaking out against the Iraq war -- and refusing to go. He tells us that "they are heroes because they're standing up to the monolith of the U.S. army. They're standing up to extraordinary peer pressure. Imagine what it's like to be there with all of your colleagues and stand up and say, 'No, I'm not going to do it because it's wrong.'"

Plus, conservative strategist Grover Norquist famously said he wants to shrink government "to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." So what was he doing speaking last month at a gathering of progressive journalists? Mother Jones bureau chief James Ridgeway tells us what Norquist had to say, and why that matters for the future of progressivism.

Also, artifical reproductive technologies have created a glut of unused frozen embryos -- 500,000 and rising. What should parents and the medical establishment do with them? Mother Jones correspondent Liza Mundy investigates, looking at the story through the eyes of couples who are debating what to do with their extra embryos -- destroy them, donate them, or have more kids?

Plus, how do Americans use and abuse power over each other in everyday life? Robert Fuller wrote about "rankism" in his 2003 best-seller "Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank," and has recently published a follow-up book. He talks about how rankism relates to other "isms" -- and gives tips on how to overcome it.