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  • Tony Danza plays dad to Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon. Critic David Edelstein says there's "a lifetime of sitcom precision — and heart — in what Danza does."
    Gordon-Levitt's 'Don Jon' Is An Openhearted Directorial Debut
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt also wrote and stars in the film, about a prolific seducer and porn addict who changes his ways when Scarlett Johansson's character enters the picture. Critic David Edelstein says Don Jon is smart, with a subversive touch.
  • George R.R. Martin, the writer of the popular book series now TV show 'Game of Thrones'
    When is the next book coming out? Waiting on the sci-fi series
    Almost everyone can relate to waiting for that next book in the series to come out. Our science fiction fans John Wenger and Andrea Johnson caught us up…
  • Is The Fed Chair Succession Too Politicized?
    Federal Reserve chairmen used to be named without much fanfare. Not this time. A very public competition between former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and the current vice chairman of the Fed Janet Yellen has made headlines and pitted the White House against liberal Democrats in Congress. It raises the question of whether the Fed succession has become too politicized — and whether it could ultimately hurt the economy.
  • Prediction
    Our panelists predict will be done with the new island off Pakistan.
  • Limericks
    Carl reads three news-related limericks: Swiffer for men; magic bus; you call your mom with that phone?
  • American-born British poet and playwright T.S. Eliot received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
    On Eliot's 125th, His 'Waste Land' Hasn't Lost Its Glamour
    This year marks the 125th birthday of Nobel Prize-winning poet T.S. Eliot. To celebrate, a re-issue of the first edition of his seminal poem has just been published, with an introduction by New Yorker poetry editor Paul Muldoon. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Muldoon about the poem's lasting influence.
  • Rangers, Reds, Indians Battle For AL Wild Card Spot
    On the last weekend of regular-season baseball, Howard Bryant of ESPN joins host Scott Simon to talk about the playoff possibilities, plus big changes afoot in how college athletes get paid for their likenesses.
  • BP Oil Spill Trial To Begin Second Phase
    The months-long federal trial is examining how much fault should be placed on BP and its contractors for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion. The accident killed 11 rig workers and released almost 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Host Scott Simon speaks with NPR's Debbie Elliott to preview the civil trial.
  • Dressed in the black and neon orange colors of the new transit police, these women are slated to replace a force of notoriously corrupt traffic cops in Mexico State.
    Mexican State's Anti-Corruption Plan: Hire Female Traffic Cops
    In the central State of Mexico, authorities are trying a new approach to fight corruption: replacing notoriously crooked male traffic cops with women. But the state hasn't authorized the female force to issue tickets yet, and some question whether women will avoid bribery any more than men.
  • The Religious Alternative To Obamacare's Individual Mandate
    The new federal health law has a few exemptions from its insurance mandate, including health care sharing ministries. Members pay a monthly fee to help cover some of each other's medical costs — but there are no guarantees.
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