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Host Liane Hansen speaks with Charles Kupchan, professor of international relations at Georgetown University. In a new book and series of articles, he recently outlined the possible rise to power of the European Union as a challenge to American geopolitical dominance. His book is The End of an American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the 21st Century

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr observes that Vice Admiral John Poindexter (ret.) has come in from the cold. A key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration, Poindexter has been brought back to head the Total Information Awareness project in the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The Bush Administration considers whether to raise fuel-efficiency standards for sport utility vehicles. So far, the administration seems to be leaning toward market-based solutions. Quinn Klinefelter reports.

Earlier this month, the Bush administration proposed a scheme by which government printing jobs could be outsourced to private companies, thus ending the virtual monopoly held by the Government Printing Office. Host Liane Hansen speaks with former director of the Library and Information Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Miriam Drake, about the concern that this may lead to a sharp drop-off in the amount of information made available to the general public.

Since 2018, the militant group has blocked such efforts, leaving millions of children unprotected. The World Health Organization reports that the Taliban is now reversing that stance.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD); Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS); Chief United Nations Weapons Inspector Hans Blix; Palestinian spokesman Yasser Abed Rabbo; Israeli spokesman Rannan Gissin; National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice; NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson, and President George W. Bush.

Essayist Andy Borowitz has a few things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Isobel Barnhill from Rochester, Minnesota. She listens to Weekend Edition on member stations KLSE and KZSE in Rochester.)

A poem about Sept. 11 written by New Jersey poet laureate Amiri Baraka has many state residents calling for his ouster, including essayist Alfred Lubrano.

In Louisiana, Democrat Mary Landrieu faces Republican Suzy Terrell in a runoff election for a U.S. Senate seat. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with political writer Jeff Crouere.

Britain is set to repeal a century-old law that kept pets arriving from the United States in quarantine for months. Pet owners on both sides of the Atlantic hail the decision. NPR's Eric Niiler reports.

In his special year-end installment of Director's Cuts, Ned Wharton, music director of Weekend Edition Sunday, offers musical gift suggestions, including albums by Tim Sparks, Joni Mitchell and Rachel Z.