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Commentator Judy Muller says Americans and their elected officials have ignored the problems of the poor in recent years. But now they're confronted with the overwhelming number of poor residents left homeless by Hurricane Katrina.

As many as 6,000 people died in the 1900 hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas. Patricia Bellis Bixel, who wrote about the storm and how the city was rebuilt, details the operation for Debbie Elliott.

Tilda Swinton plays a botanist who is haunted by a mysterious sound in an intriguing new film. Reviewer Justin Chang says Memoria's climax will leave your jaw on the floor.

Many school districts along the Gulf Coast have stopped functioning, at least temporarily. Getting the youngsters back in school -- wherever they are now -- is a huge challenge. Claudio Sanchez, sorts out some of the key questions about the task.

Tom Donohue is president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country's most active pro-business lobby. He tells Steve Inskeep about his role in tempering the SEC and other regulators.

For some people, chile peppers are wild enough when they're encountered in southwestern cooking. But Scott Simon and crew recently searched fruitlessly for chiles growing wild in the Sonoran desert.

With reportedly less than 10,000 citizens left in New Orleans, the Crescent City is now home to 14,000 soldiers, National Guardsmen and assorted other armed federal agents and police officers from around the country.

At least nine car bombs explode in Baghdad Wednesday, killing more than 150 and injuring hundreds. Iraq's arm of al Qaeda said in a statement that it was waging a suicide bombing campaign to avenge a U.S.-Iraqi military offensive against a rebel base.

The Oreck Corp.'s vacuum cleaner plant is up and running again in the Mississippi Gulf. The company plans to keep its factory there and its headquarters in New Orleans despite the devastation wrought by Katrina.

For analysis of the confirmation hearings for chief justice nominee John Roberts, Robert Siegel continues his conversation with Douglas Kmiec and Jeffrey Rosen.