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Combing through the archives, Erin Overbey found that the print publication resembles "Southern country clubs circa 1950," in which barely any writers and editors of color or women are represented.

Chadwick/Rovner: Host Alex Chadwick speaks with NPR's Julie Rovner about health care happenings on Capitol Hill this week.

There's a new target for protests in Cuba: a 34 year old US immigration law. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

Vermont Public Radio's Steve Young reports on Vermont's new groundbreaking state law which gives gay and lesbian couples almost all the rights and benefits of marriage. This morning, Young attended the civil union of two lesbians in Bennington, Vermont who were the first couple to take advantage of the law.

The Confederate battle flag was retired from the dome of South Carolina's state capital building today. Protests and counterprotests were all part of the scene. NPR's Eric Hochberg has the story from Columbia, South Carolina.

Federal, state and local authorities are preparing for the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, and attempting to prevent repeats of the kinds of protest demonstrations that stopped meetings of the World Trade Organization in Seattle last December. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports from Philadelphia.

It's the first Saturday of the month and host Jacki Lyden and writer Paul Auster bring you the National Story Project from Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. Interested in submitting a story? Send your stories to: PMB 206 123 7th Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11215. You can also email your submission to NationalStoryProject@npr.org. And for more information on the National Story Project and to read this month's stories please visit the National Story Project area.

Today, Mexican voters go to the polls in what is expected to be the most hotly-contested presidential election in the country's history. Mexican voters in the U-S will be participating, as well. Eric Roy reports from member station KCRW in Santa Monica, Ca., that as many as 200-thousand are expected to cast ballots in the U-S.

NPR's Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr examines US - Cuba relations in the wake of Elian Gonzales' return this past week to Cuba.

NPR's Anthony Brooks examines Vice President Al Gore's campaign, as he moves toward the Democratic Presidential nomination. Gore hopes to use the current economic boom to help propel him into the White House.