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NPR's Renee Montagne examines one thing that Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Richard Nixon and now Trent Lott have in common: the political apology. She speaks with Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Dean of the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

Liane talks with NPR's National Political Correspondent Elizabeth Arnold about where the election stands, 12 days after the vote. The Bush camp stepped up its attacks on the recounts over the weekend, and some are wondering how long the Gore camp will keep pushing for continued recounts.

Linguist Geoff Nunberg has some advice for Gore and Bush as they head into their third and final debate.

Robert and Linda observe the recent travel by the presidential candidates -- indicating which states are still hot contests.

Robert talks to Jan Vansina, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, about possible political ends to the crisis in Zaire. Vansina says that the difficult problem to resolve is how to return Hutu refugees to a Rwanda ruled by Tutsis...who may very well exact some kind of retribution agains the returning refugees.

-Danny talks to Neil Silberman, author of "Between Past and Presest," about the politics of archaeology. Silberman says the recent clashes in Jerusalem over a deicison to open a tunnel alongside the biblical Temple Mount are only the latert manifestation of the use of archeology as a weapon in the war for national identity and sovereignty He provides similar examples from Greece, Bosnia and. . . lower Manhatrtan.

Feelings of disgust can be a useful in navigating environmental threats. When we are disgusted, we avoid contaminated or poisonous things. But new…

NPR's Linda Gradstein in Jerusalem reports the government of Prime Minister Ehud Barak has survived yet another "no confidence" vote in the Israeli parliament.

Host Liane Hansen talks with Doyle McManus, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, about this Tuesday's midterm elections.

NPR senior news analyst Daniel Schorr says that Cuba and Fidel Castro have long influenced U.S. foreign and domestic policy.