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This week in state politics, a conversation about crossover week, a decade's old legislative tradition in which a self-mandated deadline requires bills to…

Bill Maher, host of HBO's Real Time With Bill Maher, has a new book, New Rules: Polite Musings of a Timid Observer. It's a compilation of satiric segments from the show, in which he takes aim at everything from cell phones and fast food to politics.

NPR commentator and political analyst KEVIN PHILLIPS. He's known for his ability to tap into the mood of American voters and forecast what's to come: in 1969 he predicted the conservative era with his book, "The Emerging Republican Majority." His 1992 book, "The Politics of Rich and Poor," was described as the "founding document" of the 1992 Presidential campaign. He has a new book, "Boiling Point: Democrats, Republicans, and The Decline of Middle-Class Prosperity." (Random House). PHILLIPS is also the editor-publisher of "The American Political Report."

As the budget stalemate lingers in Raleigh, rumors of another gubernatorial candidate came to fruition this week. Becki Gray of the conservative John…

Joseph Alpher about Netanyahu's prospects for continuing as Prime Minister and what Israeli politics-- and the peace process -- will look like in the wake of these accusations.

Ken Rudin joins host Frank Stasio most Fridays to talk politics. This week, Ken will be part of a panel discussing President Obama's State of the Union…

Listeners this week commented on our political interviews, on our coverage of the game rock, paper, scissors and on the Yucatec language.

Juan Williams provides analysis on the Schiavo debate and how Democrats and Republicans are jockeying for political advantages.

National party conventions have received taxpayer funds for years, but new legislation will end that — just as parties and the media are rethinking the relevance of those quadrennial extravaganzas.