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The San Diego Unified School District is facing a projected $141 million budget deficit next year. Superintendent Bill Kowba and school board president, Richard Barrera, join us to discuss the potential cuts the district is considering.

My Brother is an Only Child is based on a novel by Antonio Pennacchi, entitled Il Fasciocomunista. Luchetti insists that his film doesn't take a political…

Filmmakers Spend a Year Embedded with Unit in Afghanistan

A study in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry says MRI images reveal a common physical abnormality in the brains of people of various ages who are diagnosed with bipolar disorder, also called manic-depressive illness. NPR's Michelle Trudeau reports.

Lost Audio, Lost Homes, Lost Lives

In her first in-depth interview, Roxana Saberi, who spent four months in an Iranian prison, talks about the events leading to her arrest, why she gave a false confession to the Iranian authorities that she was a spy, and what ultimately kept her going.

Heath Ledger Scores as The Joker

What's it like being a Christian woman living in the Muslim country of Pakistan? We speak to Rubina Feroze Bhatti about the challenges women and Christians face in Pakistan, and what kind of change she hopes to create by sharing these stories.

If the current economic hard times are getting you down, Poppy's unflappable optimism may be just what you need to cheer you up. Nothing seems to get Poppy down. As the film opens, her commuter bike is stolen and she casually laughs it off. She giggles almost incessantly, always has something nice to say even to surly strangers, and manages a positive attitude in the face of anything. Her relentless cheeriness, though, can get annoying to those who don't share her bright-eyed enthusiasm for life. Take Scott (Eddie Marsan), her driving instructor. He hates life and most of the people in it. Scott takes Poppy's sunny disposition as an inability to take anything seriously. Each of their driving sessions proves to be a clash of personalities with neither one willing to budge.

NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard joins us today to discuss her role within the news organization, and to talk about some of the most contentious issues she's worked to resolve over the last two years. Alicia also takes questions and comments from listeners in San Diego.