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The town of Jena, La., copes with a case of racially motivated violence, even as court proceedings against those involved move ahead. The case centers on a tree at a high school that was a meeting place for white students. It exposes racial tensions in a small town.

The United States and Britain failed to exercise "critical judgment" in going to war against Iraq a year ago despite the lack of hard evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, says Hans Blix, the former chief United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. Blix discusses his new book, Disarming Iraq, in an extended interview with NPR's Bob Edwards.

At least 2,000 U.S. forces have been killed in Iraq since the United States invaded the country two and a half years ago. With the support of a majority of Americans waning, many Senate Democrats are reconsidering their votes to authorize President Bush's military action in Iraq -- an issue that continues to split the party.

When New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson went to Sudan to broker a peace deal, he went as a private citizen, and with the blessing of the State Department. This week, President Bush blasted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip to Syria. Former presidential envoy George Mitchell discusses freelance diplomacy.

CBS Radio fires Don Imus for racist and sexist remarks about Rutgers University's women's basketball team. But the problem underlined by the shock jock's comments is much bigger than Imus.

Former President Jimmy Carter defends his new book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. The best-seller has generated passionate criticism that it is slanted toward Palestinians and full of inaccuracies.

Melissa Block talks with Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for the New York Times, about his recent trip to Darfur, in western Sudan. Kristof tells the story of one woman who was gang-raped by eight men. After her husband was killed, she marched across the desert with her five children to seek shelter in a refugee camp. Her youngest child later died.

A group of leading scientists and evangelicals have chosen to put aside their differences on how the world came to be and join forces to protect its future. They've formed a coalition and are lobbying Capitol Hill on environmental issues.

Democrats in the House of Representatives are well into their "100 Hours" of legislation. Coming up this week is a bill that would repeal subsidies to big oil, and push investment in renewable fuels. John Ydstie speaks to Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA).

At a Holocaust Conference in Tehran this week, Iran's president vowed: "Just as the Soviet Union was wiped out and today does not exist, so will the Zionist regime soon be wiped out. This is God's will and what all nations want." It's a reminder of why Holocaust museums were built.