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  • A Tea Party activist rallies in support of Arizona's tough immigration law in Phoenix in April.
    Arizona Tea Party Activists Say They're Back
    Tea Party conservatives say they have been re-energized by recent events in Washington, D.C. And far from the nation's capital, Arizona has become a rallying point for those who are focused on the election-year issues of immigration and health care.
  • He Cannot Lie
    One of our most requested segments, a call out to a very special expert.
  • Summertime in the San Joaquin Valley
    Sitting on my balcony, I watched the full moon rising and the backyard evergreens dancing in the moonlight. I was amazed watching the branches swing.…
  • The beleaguered city of Stockton is fighting to avert bankruptcy by cutting staff, including a quarter of the roughly 425-member police force.
    An Example To Avoid: City Of Stockton On The Brink
    The California city is broke and on the edge of bankruptcy. Stockton's road to insolvency is a long one, and it appears that, financially speaking, everything that could go wrong in Stockton did.
  • A Remarkable Tragedy, Long Walk to the Showers
    On this edition of Valley Writers Read, Christine Autrand Mitchell reads her story A Remarkable Tragedy, which tells how a family's life is changed by the…
  • Foreign Workers Trek Across Sahel To Libya, Again
    During Libya's uprising last year, hundreds of thousands of foreign workers fled the violence. But now, many are making the trek back across Africa's Sahel region seeking better job opportunities than they can find at home. Marine Olivesi reports from one town in Ghana that has seen thousands make the long trip.
  • Griefland - an Intimate Portrait of Love, Loss and Unlikely Friendship
    Both Armen Bacon and Nancy Miller have shared the pain of losing a child to addiction. On this edition of Valley Writers Read, we hear them read their…
  • America's new poet laureate, Philip Levine, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995. Here, he's seen in a file photo at the San Joaquin River Center in Fresno, Calif.
    Philip Levine Named As America's New Poet Laureate
    America has a new poet laureate today, as the Library of Congress names Phillip Levine in the one-year position. He will succeed W.S. Merwin in the post. Born in Detroit in 1928, Levine has used his poetry to examine blue-collar life; as a young man, he worked in Detroit's car factories.
  • Carson Phillips (Chris Colfer) and Malerie Baggs (Rebel Wilson) try to drum up support for their school's literary magazine in the dark comedy <em>Struck By Lightning</em>, for which Colfer wrote the screenplay.
    Chris Colfer Goes From 'Glee' Singer To 'Struck' Screenwriter
    Chris Colfer, who plays Kurt Hummel on the hit TV show Glee, wrote and stars in a new film Struck by Lightning, a darkly comic take on the high school experience. Colfer talks with NPR's Guy Raz about the film and his work on Glee.
  • A mourner holds a photo of Gen. Vang Pao during the funeral procession. Vang was a hero of the Hmong community, and thousands gathered for his six-day long funeral. He died on Jan. 6 at age 81.
    Family History: The General, His Sisters And Me
    Gen. Vang Pao, an exiled leader from the Hmong hill tribe in communist Laos, was a CIA ally during the Vietnam War. Now, shortly after his death and six-day funeral in California, NPR's Doualy Xaykaothao — Vang Pao's grandniece — is delving into her family history. Who was Vang Pao, and what stories can his surviving sisters share?
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