Search results for

As part of Teach For America Week, Scott Simon visits a fourth grade classroom to teach students about his job in public radio.

Commentator Mary McClintock Fulkerson says that there should be more, not less, discussion of the candidates' religious beliefs. If voters really knew about candidates' religious philosophies, she says, it would be an indicator how they might make decisions about governance.

Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush spent the end of his work week in New England. NPR's Steve Inskeep is covering the Bush campaign.

Scott explores the role of the Alien Property Custodian with John Bendix, researcher for the Presidential Advisory on Holocaust Assets, and David Whitman, of U.S. News and World Report. This office of the U.S. Government retained the profits earned on works created by residents of the Axis power nations during --and after-- World War Two, in order to keep those funds out of the hands of the Nazis.

Simon/Gwen Verdon -- Scott remembers dancer, singer and actress Gwen Verdon.

NPR's senior news analyst Daniel Schorr review the news of the week.

Scott Simon remembers former U.S. Rep. Sidney Yates, who died last week.

Senator John McCain defeated George W. Bush in the New Hampshire primary. But though the candidate has bowed out, he's still a favorite among voters. New Hampshire Public Radio's Av Harris reports on efforts by both McCain and Bush to get voters interested in Bush.

Host Lisa Simeone talk with students at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky about why many of then are still undecided voters.

Missouri voters have picked the winning candidate for President more often than any other state in the union. They've only gotten it wrong once in the past hundred years. But this year, how Missourians will vote is in question: popular Democratic Governor Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash earlier this week as he was campaigning for U.S. Senate. Now it's unclear who voters will be electing if they mark their ballots for Carnahan ... and that may hurt Vice-President Gore. NPR's David Welna reports