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As General David Petraeus leaves Baghdad to head central command, what's next for Iraq? Author Linda Robinson talks about the extensive interviews she conducted with Petraeus for her new book, Tell Me How This Ends. Also, Dexter Filkins, foreign correspondent for The New York Times, discusses his book The Forever War.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is reported to be in failing health. North Korean officials denied the report, while a U.S. intelligence official told NPR that Kim may have suffered a stroke in recent weeks.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has surprised U.S. military and diplomatic leaders with his more assertive position. After successful military offensives against militants in Basra and Sadr City, he has become an increasingly confident leader.

In Moscow, there has been no official comment about Vice President Dick Cheney's visit to Georgia. Russia has so far ignored or dismissed warnings from the West of economic and diplomatic consequences for its attack on Georgia. Russian officials appear to be enjoying defying the West.

Republican presidential hopeful John McCain spent years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. You might think people there would be less supportive of McCain because he is a conservative who backs the war in Iraq and was in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. But McCain has a lot of supporters in Hanoi.

The upside of sleeping with a corpse is the slim chance of an unwanted pregnancy. & The Republican Party of George Bush and John McCain is a freshly stiffened corpse. & How long will its members lie in bed with it?

A Rose for Sarah

This post is one in an ongoing series of audio postcards intended to document the characters we might consider minor in the larger picture of these…

Obama/McCain Ticket??

As critics question her approach to Russia, aides to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice say she played a key role in getting Georgia to sign a peace plan with Russia and uniting NATO around a common response.