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Homemade political ads submitted to a MoveOn.org contest compared President Bush to Adolph Hitler. The liberal group removed the ads from its site. Now the Bush-Cheney campaign is citing them in its own commercial in which it tries to portray supporters of John Kerry as the "Coalition of the Wild-Eyed." NPR's Ari Shapiro reports.

As part of a campus-wide effort to teach basic etiquette, students have been told if they're nice to staff at the cafeteria, for example saying hello, they get 50 percent off their meal.

Sean Strub is best known as the founder of POZ magazine and the first openly HIV-positive person to run for Congress. But his new memoir, Body Counts: A…

In The Oil and the Glory: The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea, veteran foreign correspondent Steve LeVine writes about the high-stakes political gamesmanship over control of the rich oil resources in that region.

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf faces protests at home — and given his stance on the Taliban, eroding support in the West as well. Journalist and author Ahmed Rashid parses the challenges and possibilities of contemporary Pakistani politics.

Hear Earle, one of the most outspoken and compelling figures in contemporary music, perform in the studio from WXPN. His new album draws on themes of war, pollution and immigration, while maintaining a sense of optimism.

What role is religion likely to play in the 2008 presidential election? How are the candidates dealing with the issue? John Green, senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, offers his insights to Steve Inskeep.

The pandemic and its economic effects are a political weight on President Biden.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Fawad Nazami, the political counselor at the Embassy of Afghanistan, about how his job has changed since the Taliban took control of the Afghan government.

Senior news analyst NPR's Daniel Schorr says that terrorist bombings in Madrid and the surprise outcome of the Spanish election may spur more countries in Europe to re-evaluate their relationship with the United States.