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Obama Tweaks U.S. Vision For Fight Against Terrorism
May 24, 2013 | NPR · President Obama discussed America's counter-terrorism strategy — including the use of drones and the prison at Guantanamo Bay — during an address at the National Defense University on Thursday. He rejected the idea that the country can fight an open-ended "global war on terror."
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Political Attacks Ramp Up In U.S. Senate Race In Mass.
May 24, 2013 | NPR · In Massachusetts, what's been a relatively lackluster campaign to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Secretary of State John Kerry is heating up. Veteran Democratic Rep. Ed Markey is running against Republican Gabriel Gomez, a businessman and former Navy SEAL. Gomez is a political newcomer.
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Documentary Introduces The Man Behind WikiLeaks
May 24, 2013 | NPR · David Greene talks to filmmaker Alex Gibney about the new documentary We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks. In 2006, Julian Assange launched WikiLeaks and encouraged anyone in the world to pass on information that might expose government secrets.
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Obama: Sexual Assault Has No Place In The Military
May 24, 2013 | NPR · President Obama delivered the commencement address at Annapolis on Friday, challenging the U.S. Naval Academy graduates to help redefine national defense in the 21st century.
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Week In Politics: Obama And Drone Strikes
May 24, 2013 | NPR · Melissa Block speaks with political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss highlights from the national security speech delivered by President Obama on Thursday.
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Battered Jersey Shore Pins Recovery Hopes On Summer Season
May 24, 2013 | NJN · Seven months after Hurricane Sandy slammed into the Jersey Shore, Asbury Park is still waiting for insurance and federal aid money. In the meantime, it borrowed $10 million to repair the waterfront in time for the critical Memorial Day weekend.
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Working Women On Television: A Mixed Bag At Best
May 18, 2013 | NPR · Research shows that prime-time television isn't a bad place to find portrayals of working women. Working moms and working women over 40 are another story.
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Political Takeaways: Headaches For The White House
May 19, 2013 | NPR · Controversies dominated this past week's political headlines, leaving the Obama White House on the defensive, trying to contain any lasting damage. Host Rachel Martin talks with NPR's Mara Liasson.
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Making a List

The Least Material of Material Gifts
Dec 22, 2006 — As an economist, Russell Roberts would prefer that we spread our spending out evenly across the year and avoid debt now. But if we must, he has some books he'd like to recommend....
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A Book and a Wish for a Daughter
Dec 23, 2005 — Journalist and comedian Aaron Freeman has a gift for his daughter, and it's in T.H. White's The Once and Future King. It's the gift of love, shared imagination, and peace, it's inspiration he hopes will last a lifetime.
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A Gift in Any Language
Dec 20, 2005 — To linguist John H. McWhorter, "the magic books" are a series of self-teaching language books that work. Follow the directions, and you speak like a perfectly fluent three-year-old. For him, they're often the perfect gift.
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Books for Students of Writing, Language and Life
Dec 15, 2005 — The gift of beautiful prose, given to someone on the edge of loving words and their arrangements, is an invaluable present, writes commentator and novelist Susan Straight. She shares some of the titles she'll be giving this year.
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A Sporting Season
Dec 13, 2005 — Sportswriter and author Christine Brennan doesn't always choose sports-oriented titles for giving and getting at the holidays, but this years she finds a few titles too good to ignore.
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The Gift of a Storyteller
Dec 8, 2005 — Poet and All Things Considered commentator Andrei Codrescu writes that better than a book is the gift of a storyteller from a storytelling city, New Orleans: "There are masses of humans who just need to stay warm and calm and tell stories."
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A Feeling of the Times
Dec 6, 2005 — Books and records evoke strong reactions in people and can — even years down the road — create a real feeling of the times, of certain places and of friendships. The gift of those memories matter most to commentator Laura Lorson.
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Yellowing, Dog-Eared, and Perfect
Dec 2, 2005 — Commentator Jake Halpern plans on giving Herman Wouk's 1971 classic The Winds of War this holiday season. Written before he was born, the book strengthened his connections to his stepfather and late grandfather.
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Bounty for the Nature Nut
Nov 29, 2005 — A rain barrel is rather tough to wrap, so if you're looking to give nature nut and All Things Considered commentator Julie Zickefoose a gift, here's a list of books and music.
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A Beautiful 'Big Day'
Nov 23, 2005 — The delight of the day is really in the unwrapping, in the discarded wrapping paper lying like the sloughed off skins of Christmas around me, writes All Things Considered commentator Sandip Roy.
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