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Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Bill Kristol, editor and publisher of the Weekly Standard, and pollster Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the Press and the People, about the Republican National Convention.

The last time Philadelphia hosted a political convention, it was 1948, and the city got three for one: Republicans, Democrats and the Progressive Party all gathered there. Although the Progressive Party would place last in the election, it sponsored one of the livelier conventions, with singalongs led by Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson. Many of the reforms it advocated were later adopted. Host Jacki Lyden talks with John Hyde, co-author of a biography of Henry Wallace, the Progressive Party Nominee. (American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace, by John C. Culver and John Hyde, W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 03930

Ydstie/Stern--John talks with food writer Michael Stern about that nostalgic American meal known as the casserole. The dish is making a comeback. (2:45).

John talks with Fortune Magazine's editor at large Joe Nocera of Al Gore's difficulties to make the nation's prosperous economy translate into electoral benefits.

Writer Paul Auster reads stories sent in by Weekend All Things Considered listeners. For this installment of the story project, Paul Auster and host Jacki Lyden visit the famed Gotham Book Mart on 47th Street in Manhattan.

In the summer of 1944, a young black woman boarded a bus in Gloucester, Virginia headed for Baltimore. Sitting in the "Negroes Only" section, she was asked to give up her seat when a white couple boarded. Irene Morgan refused, went to jail, and lost at trial. But a young Thurgood Marshall took the case all the way to the Supreme Court, some eleven years before Rosa Parks, and won a ruling that found segregation in interstate travel unconstitutional. This weekend, the town of Gloucester honors the 83-year-old for her courage.

NPR's John Burnett reports from Big Bend National Park in Texas, where the drifting smoke from coal-burning power plants hundreds of miles away in Mexico has made the park one of the most polluted in the country.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is John Slater from Wheaton, Illinois. He listens to Weekend Edition on member stations WBEZ, Chicago, and WNIJ in DeKalb.)

Liane talks to 18-year-old Katherine Tarbox about her experience as a teenager involved in an on-line relationship with a man she later discovered was a pedophile. Her book is called katie.com, published by Dutton (Penguin Group). (10:00).

Fishing conjures up images of rushing blue water and crystal clear streams. While the East River in Harlem hardly compares to the traditional setting, some hardcore fishing buffs -- New Yorkers, no doubt -- still get the best of what the old-time sports has to offer. Annie Cheney reports from New York.