The results are in. Republican Bob Turner beats Democrat David Weprin in the NY-9 seat. Digest the outcome with Liz Benjamin, host of Capital Tonight and blogger at the State of Politics blog.

With the GOP divided over the HPV vaccine issue that has come up in the presidential primary race, Washington correspondent for the New Yorker magazine Ryan Lizza discusses the politics of both sides.

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As Republican candidates continued the fight for the nomination this week in another early Republican primary debate, former PBS News anchor Jim Lehrer, no stranger to the moderator's chair, joins us to discuss his career as an interviewer and his new book, Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, from Kennedy-Nixon to Obama-McCain.

Rachel Black, a policy analyst in the Asset Building Program at the New America Foundation, looks at the new Census Bureau report showing a record number of Americans living below the poverty line.

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As famine in Somalia worsens, Thomas Keneally, award winning author of Three Famines: Starvation and Politics, discusses the history and politics of famines in the age of global relief agencies.

Ever wonder what it's like to work at a call center in Delhi? Hear Siddhartha Deb, creative writing teacher at the New School and journalist, who went undercover at just such a place, discuss his study of post-globalization India in the book, The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India.

EVENT: Siddhartha Deb will be at the Barnes & Nobles in Tribeca on Warren Street at 6 p.m. tonight.