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NPR's Andy Bowers reports on the political ads that will be filling the airwaves -- and attempting to woo undecided voters -- between now and the Presidential election.

The Montana Logging and Ballet Company offers some common sense solutions for the recent rash of bad political ads, which are soiling the nation's airwaves during this presidential election campaign.

Co-Host Renee Montagne talks to NPR's Cokie Roberts about political events this week as the Democratic National Convention gets underway in Los Angeles.

Host Liane Hansen reviews the week's news with David Corn, ditor for The Nation magazine. Topics include the budget bill on Capitol Hill, hite House investigations and California politics.

-Daniel talks with professor Ron Carpenter of the University of Florida about the best and worst moments of political convention speeches and how the good ones are remembered for the phrases they coin.

Just a week ago political pundits were saying that the era of retail politics -- of candidates shaking hands and knocking on doors --- had been eclipsed once and for all by television advertising. But as the architect of the new model, Steve Forbes, stumbles out of Iowa, New Hampshire voters are questioning his decision to forgo a grassroots campaign. Leda Hartman of New Hampshire Public Radio reports.

NPR's Jackie Northam in Baghdad reports on the emergence of new political parties in Iraq, each trying to fill the vacuum left by the ouster of Saddam Hussein's regime. Political party offices are sprouting up all over the capital, representing Islamist groups as well as leftists, monarchists and former high-ranking military officers.

UNC political science professor Andy Reynolds is one of the world’s leading experts in governmental and electoral design. During his graduate school years…

With Algeria in civil crisis and similar fundamentalist prisings brewing in Egypt, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia, NPR's Sunni Khalid SOO-nee KAH-lid) examines U.S. policy and response to political Islamic ctivity.

Daniel talks with Jonathan Broder, Washington bureau chief of the Jerusalem Report about the political landscape in Israel after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. He says that the Israeli people are divided three ways on the country's future.