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NPR's Kate Seelye reports from Bahrain, on the steps the emirate is taking towards democracy. Last month the country approved a new charter rearranging the government into a constitutional monarchy. While the empire has gained a great deal of popularity from the move, past attempts at democracy in this state have met with conflict.

NPR's Andrea Dukakis reports on a new immigrant education class for arrested immigrants offered by Colorado's Eagle County courts.

John discusses the week's News with senior analyst Dan Schorr.

John talks about one of Maryland's last tobacco auctions.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports that the newly independent country of Georgia has been encountering resistance as it tries to distance itself from Russia, which feels that it still has claims over this formerly Soviet region.

John talks with Nigel Collins of The Ring magazine about Muhammed Ali's recent apology to former opponent Joe Frazier

This Sunday marks the anniversary of one of the worst school disasters in U.S. history-- the 1937 gas explosion at the New London Consolidated School in Rusk County, Texas. John talks to Mollie Ward, who saw the blast as a New London fourth-grader and now directs a new museum dedicated to the tragedy.

John talks with the blues and gospel group the Holmes Brothers about their latest album on Alligator records, Speaking in Tongues.

One year after the world's largest gunmaker, Smith & Wesson, agreed to change the way it markets and distributes firearms, the gun manufacturer is facing financial problems. Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's Eric Westervelt.

John talks with Joe Nocera of Fortune magazine about this week's turmoil in the stock market.