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  • Five Years Later: A Letter To New Orleans
    When commentator Keith Woods first became a columnist for The Times-Picayune, Lawrence "Shorty" Washington, a shoeshine man, acted as his muse. Now, five years after Hurricane Katrina, Woods collects his thoughts and recollections in a letter to an old friend.
  • Spending The Holidays At A Toxic Waste Site
    To avoid the crowds at Niagara Falls, why not sail the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or ogle oil refineries in Port Arthur, Texas? In Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures In The World's Most Polluted Places, Andrew Blackwell describes traveling to the world's most contaminated destinations.
  • Kumquats that were grown at Morning Song Farm in Rainbow, an unincorporated town in northern San Diego County.
    Local Farmer Speaks On The Push For Locally-Grown Food
    A San Diego farmer is featured in a national cookbook for people who love local food. It's all about making better use of local produce you may not have cooked with before. Joining us on Morning Edition is Donna Buono of Morning Song Farm.
  • Obama, Netanyahu And The 1967 Lines
    One line from President Obama's recent speech stirred up anger in Congress and Israel: "Borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared his country will not return to those "indefensible borders."
  • A Gut-Punch Of Sadness In James Joyce's 'Dubliners'
    Author Kevin Maher laughed off the Dubliners as a 12-year old, yet one line stayed with him. It was that line that convinced him to go back to the stories, discovering a love of James Joyce in the process.
  • Vice President Kerry Rhodes kneels alongside Midwest Control Products' 2-acre garden. The company has put employees to work in nontraditional ways in order to prevent layoffs.
    Midwest Factory Has Workers Paint, Garden And Sell
    One factory in a small Midwestern town hasn't laid off its workers during the recession. Instead, it put its employees to work on tasks that it used to farm out, including painting, gardening and selling produce at a local farmers market.
  • First Read: Barbara Kingsolver's 'Flight Behavior'
    Barbara Kingsolver's new novel weaves together a story of personal awakening with larger themes of environmental stewardship and climate change. Heroine Dellarobia Turnbow's life begins to change when she sees a strange vision in the Appalachian hills — a lake seemingly afire.
  • A Mexican soldier patrols the scene where three US' Consulate staffers were killed in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on March 13, 2010.
    Pressure Rises For More U.S. Aid In Mexico's Drug War
    Thousands of Mexican troops and hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. aid have failed to stem the drug wars plaguing Mexico's northern border region. Now, the killing of Americans last weekend in Ciudad Juarez is likely to escalate the conflict and Washington's already substantial involvement in the fight, analysts say.
  • Federal police patrol outside the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday. U.S. and Mexican officials say they're looking into why a suspected drug gang ambushed two cars carrying families with ties to the U.S. consulate.
    Pressure Rises For More U.S. Aid In Mexico Drug War
    Analysts say the deaths of Americans in Juarez last weekend may put more pressure on the Obama administration to act. The U.S. already gives hundreds of millions of dollars to Mexico for its drug fight.
  • Presidential Candidates Face Uncertain Economy
    The economy is emerging as a big issue in the presidential campaign. Presidential contenders in both parties are touting their economic plans for reviving the ailing economy. Upcoming contests will be critical for some candidates.
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