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NPR's Kate Seelye reports from Bahrain, on the steps the emirate is taking towards democracy. Last month the country approved a new charter rearranging the government into a constitutional monarchy. While the empire has gained a great deal of popularity from the move, past attempts at democracy in this state have met with conflict.

Commentator Jan See Ting finds that an old Chinese proverb sheds light on the current U-S-China crisis.

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times applauds the new movie "Spy Kids," an adventure fantasy about two kids who discover their parents were once glamorous globetrotting secret agents. Robert Rodriguez, who also directed "El Mariachi" and "From Dusk till Dawn," departs from the slasher and adult adventure films he has made in the past to create a successful family film.

Tomorrow NASA will launch its latest mission to Mars: a small spacecraft designed to study the red planet from its orbit. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports on NASA's efforts to minimize the risk of failure.

NPR's Rachel Jones reports on the effort to cut the number ofd eaths from SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

NPR's Andrea Dukakis reports on a new immigrant education class for arrested immigrants offered by Colorado's Eagle County courts.

Host John Ydstie talks with Michael Macrone, author of Brush Up Your Shakespeare, about all the different words and phrases created by the writer.

John talks with Nigel Collins of The Ring magazine about Muhammed Ali's recent apology to former opponent Joe Frazier

John talks with the blues and gospel group the Holmes Brothers about their latest album on Alligator records, Speaking in Tongues.

Forget stumping in the town center. In a small New Hampshire town, the trash dump is the hot spot for politicking. From New Hampshire Public Radio, Trish Anderton reports.

This Sunday marks the anniversary of one of the worst school disasters in U.S. history-- the 1937 gas explosion at the New London Consolidated School in Rusk County, Texas. John talks to Mollie Ward, who saw the blast as a New London fourth-grader and now directs a new museum dedicated to the tragedy.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the current problems facing the postal service. For the past two years, it has lost money and is expecting to lose money again this year. And that may mean closing post offices in smaller towns. Not to mention another increase in the cost of a first class stamp.