All Things Considered
Pakistanis Brave Violence To Cast Historic Votes
Pakistanis voted in parliamentary elections Saturday after a violent campaign season that left dozens dead. NPR's Julie McCarthy is in Lahore and tells Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Arun Rath the latest.
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Reminder: Three-Minute Fiction Round 11 Closing Soon
Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Arun Rath reminds fans of NPR's Three-Minute Fiction contest that Round 11 will be closing in two days and they should submit their stories now at npr.org/threeminutefiction.
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In Hollywood Twist, China Gets Its Own 'Iron Man'
Entertainment Weekly senior writer Anthony Breznican gives Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Arun Rath the latest news from Hollywood.
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Week In News: Hacking — Made In China
This past week, the Pentagon fired off a stern warning about Chinese computer hacking, and the Chinese responded with a tense rebuttal. Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Arun Rath speaks with James Fallows, national correspondent with The Atlantic, who's been in Beijing all week and saw the response firsthand.
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Combating The Rise In Teen Suicide
Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Arun Rath talks to pediatrician Stephen Teach about teen suicide and how to prevent it. Teach recently published new research on how and why children as young as 10 years old commit suicide.
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Former Guatemalan Dictator Found Guilty Of Genocide
The genocide trial of former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt ended Friday with a conviction. A panel of judges found him guilty after a six-week proceeding. Rios Montt, however, denies responsibility for massacres and other crimes committed against Mayans during his 1982-1983 rule.
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'It Led Us On A Journey': The Musical World Of 'The Great Gatsby'
In overseeing the new film's soundtrack, music supervisor Anton Monsted says he hoped to create a "sliding door" effect between the Jazz Age and the hip-hop era.
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Polley's 'Stories': A Family Saga Strikingly Spun
A director's film memoir of her theatrical family is transformed by surprising discoveries about her parents' past — and her own heritage. Sarah Polley's film becomes a superb meditation on how we dramatize memory. (Recommended)
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Book Review: 'A Nearly Perfect Copy'
Book critic Alan Cheuse has a review of A Nearly Perfect Copy by Allison Amend.
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Benghazi Investigator Reacts To Criticism Of His Report
Robert Siegel speaks with former top diplomat Thomas Pickering, who led the State Department's investigation into the September 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Pickering's report was criticized by witnesses at this week's congressional oversight hearing about the administration's handling of the attacks.
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The Search Is Over: Boston Bombing Suspect Has Been Buried
Audie Cornish talks to Martha Mullen, who spearheaded the effort to find a place to bury the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
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Not Even Instant Replay Could Prevent These Bad Calls
There have been a slew of bad calls in Major League Baseball recently, including one that was made despite the advantage of instant replay.
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President Asks Moms For Help Promoting Obamacare
President Obama met with a group of mothers on Friday to talk about selling relevant aspects of Obamacare to a young generation that often takes its healthy condition for granted and avoids the cost of insurance.
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After Targeting Conservative Groups, IRS Apologizes
On Friday, the IRS officer in charge of tax-exempt groups apologized for the agency's use of the terms "tea party" and "patriot" on paperwork as a reason for giving applicants additional scrutiny. Conservative groups say the admission validates their complaints from last year that they were being singled out by the Obama administration.
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Letters: Teenage Diaries Revisited And Turkey Tails
Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel read letters from listeners about the Teenage Diaries Revisited series and turkey tails.
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With Rebels In Disarray, Syrian Regime Appears Confident
Analysts explain that Assad defines victory as holding on to key territory, including Damascus, and they say Assad's goal is to stay in place until 2014, as he said he would, to run in a presidential election. The overall commander of the Free Syrian Army says his rebels are getting hammered by the regime in the south because arms shipments stopped over a month ago.
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Week In Politics: Immigration & Benghazi
Robert Siegel speaks with political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution, and Reihan Salam of National Review Online's The Agenda blog. They discuss immigration and the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
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Study Reveals Wild Disparities In American Hospital Pricing
On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a massive spreadsheet containing a comparison of what hospitals across the country bill for the 100 most popular medical procedures. The document revealed wild disparities in pricing from hospital to hospital. Robert Siegel speaks with Princeton professor Uwe Reinhardt, who studies health care economics, about how the American hospital system evolved this way.
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Two Years In, A Look At Obama's Syrian Civil War Record
Syria's civil war is becoming the defining foreign policy challenge of President Obama's second term.
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Teenage Diaries Revisited: Mother And Son Listen To The Past
In 1996, after 12 years living in the foster care system, Melissa Rodriguez recorded a diary about getting pregnant and becoming a mother. Now, her son Issaiah is a teenager, and she shares her teenage diary with him and reveals things about her past that she's never mentioned.
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