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Weekend Edition's Popular Culture Commentator Steven Stark says the Federal Trade Commission is right to scrutinize the marketing of violent TV shows and movies to young people. But he says the FTC may be missing the point when it comes to rock music.

Insurance companies are abandoning longtime clients, putting the $34 billion wine industry at risk.

It is "a sensual, popular and monumental gesture," says Carine Rolland, the deputy mayor of Paris in charge of culture. The artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude came up with the idea before they died.

The telescope is sometimes billed as Hubble's successor.

A new study shows that the biggest rise in suicides — nearly 7% a year from 2003 to 2017 — is among Black girls.

This comes as Chancellor Angela Merkel steps down.

Linda and Robert read letters from All Things Considered listeners. (3:30) Send e-mail to atc@npr.org or actual paper letters to "Letters, All Things Considered," National Public Radio, 635 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington DC, 20001.

Twenty years ago, following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter announced that the U-S would boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The boycott affected some 200 U-S athletes, many of whom remain bitter about being denied their only chance to compete for their country in the Olympics. Nancy Greenleese of member station KPBS reports.

Liane talks with NPR's Tom Goldman from Sydney on events at the Summer Olympics in Australia. Swimming has taken center stage in the opening weekend.

Liane talks with reporter Jon Miller from Lima, Peru, where President Alberto Fujimori has announced that he will call for new presidential elections -- and that he will not be a candidate.

Weekend Edition's Information Age specialiast Rich Dean wades into the battle over digital music online, as companies such as MP3.com and Napster try to post free music on the internet in the face of growing legal challenges.

The Summer Olympics in Sydney will surely attract travelers to Australia. Liane talks to Bill Bryson, author of In A Sunburned Country, about his adventures down under. He says there's a lot more to this vast continent than kangaroos and Crocodile Dundee. (Broadway Books)