The man known for inventing microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, thinks that capitalism has grown too "greed-oriented.” Yunus won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work lending money at low interest rates to budding entrepreneurs around the world. In his new book "A World of Three Zeros,” Yunus argues that environmental destruction, unemployment and devastating inequality demonstrate that capitalism is broken. He'll discuss the book and lay out his vision for how to fix capitalism and attain economic prosperity for all.

Zoë Quinn was trying to establish herself as a video game developer when she unwillingly became famous as the face of the Gamergate controversy in 2014. An ex-boyfriend published a blog post with false accusations that led Quinn and other feminists in the video game industry to be subjected to a two-year online harassment campaign. Quinn joins us in studio to talk about the personal impact of Gamergate, how she fought back, and the book she wrote about her experience, “Crash Override.”

New evidence emerged Thursday that gunman Stephen Paddock scouted other locations -- including the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago -- before massacring 58 concertgoers in Las Vegas last weekend. As San Francisco prepares for several large outdoor events this weekend, we'll discuss how law enforcement is addressing potential security risks. We'll also get an update on the police investigation of the shooting.

Thi Bui was only 3 years old when her family fled South Vietnam in the 1970s to start a new life in California. But Bui says she inherited some of the fear and trauma of her parents' experiences in the war. Bui's illustrated memoir, "The Best We Could Do," explores her parents' lives: the sacrifices they made and the struggles they went through that took their children years to understand.

Sunnyvale-based Yahoo announced Tuesday that every one of its 3 billion account holders was compromised by a massive data breach in August 2013, three times the number the company initially reported in 2016. Yahoo's announcement comes less than a month after the credit reporting giant Equifax revealed that a 3-month-old breach exposed more than 145 million customers' social security numbers and other personal information. And San Francisco's Wells Fargo, which remains embroiled in a fake-accounts scandal, acknowledged Wednesday that it improperly charged some borrowers mortgage extension fees. We discuss the ethical and legal standards governing corporations amid such scandals, and what more may need to be done to protect consumers' rights, property and privacy.

The San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing this week announced a new plan, modeled after success in cities like Houston and Salt Lake City. Its goal is to cut the numbers of chronic homeless in half. Head of San Francisco homeless services Jeff Kositsky joins us to explain how the new “Five-Year Strategic Framework” will work, including how it will tie together the 15 separate systems now used to track homeless individuals for services into one intake assessment.

Kristin Scott Thomas plays Winston Churchill’s wife Clementine in the upcoming film “Darkest Hour,” which examines Churchill’s first term as prime minister, as Britain faced an imminent Nazi invasion. Thomas, who plays in both English and French language films, is perhaps best known for her Oscar-nominated role in “The English Patient.” She joins us to talk about the allure of stage acting, why she has never been drawn to Hollywood like other actors and “Darkest Hour,” which opens the Mill Valley Film Festival on Thursday.

Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flooded Barcelona's streets Tuesday, protesting police violence in the wake of Sunday's disputed vote in favor of Catalan independence. Calling for unity, King Felipe of Spain condemned the secessionists as acting "totally outside law and democracy." Meanwhile, Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont told the BBC that the region would declare independence by the beginning of next week. We discuss the future of Catalonia and what secession would mean for Spain and the European Union.

Many of us think we know the biblical story of Adam and Eve and its themes of original sin, temptation and exile. But the story has a complicated history, beginning as a Babylonian creation myth and later taking on literal meaning for medieval and Renaissance Catholics. In his new book “The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve”, award-winning Harvard University humanities professor Stephen Greenblatt excavates the origins and retellings of the ancient tale to illustrate how it continues to shape Western culture.

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei has evolved into a fierce and outspoken critic of human rights abuses in China and around the world. His new documentary, Human Flow, focuses on the growing worldwide refugee crisis. Through bird’s eye visual imagery, much of it using drone photography, Ai provides a nontraditional narrative of the problem. He joins us in the studio to talk about the film and his career.