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Commentator Cornel West has been monitoring the role that African-American churches might play in this presidential election, and how Republicans are becoming more encouraged.

Day to Day television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews two new television documentaries about the world of hip-hop, both produced by music mogul Russell Simmons. VH1's And You Don't Stop and Court TV's Hip-Hop Justice are set to air Wednesday night.

At Tuesday's vice presidential debate, both Vice President Cheney and Sen. John Edwards stretched, muddled, and sometimes mangled the truth. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep.

Wallace Roney holds the distinction of being the only trumpet player the late great Miles Davis personally mentored. But with his latest CD Prototype, Roney proves he's no copycat, and he's unafraid to explore new musical territory.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about recent legal difficulties for Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored mortgage lender. Company executives appear before Congress Wednesday to defend their accounting methods.

Should Sen. John Kerry be elected president, the new first lady would be Teresa Heinz Kerry, a woman quite different from the traditional cast of White House wives. The widow of a Republican senator who died in a helicopter accident in 1991, she married Kerry in 1996. But through her decades of public life in both parties, she has shown a penchant for independence. Hear NPR's Linda Wertheimer.

Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large for The National Review, and Slate editor Jacob Weisberg offer their analysis of election results.

Only 16 U.S. presidents have been elected to a second term, and not all of those have gone well: Witness Ronald Reagan's Iran-Contra debacle and Bill Clinton's Monica Lewinsky scandal. On policy matters, controversial issues that presidents put off during their first term can cause trouble during their second term. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and historian Robert Dallek.

Last weekend in Orlando, Fla., Sen. John Kerry gave a speech on the middle class. Hear an excerpt from that speech as part of a series of excerpts from the presidential candidates' speeches to be broadcast in the weeks before the election.

Asked whether immigrants need to believe in God in order to be fully American, a majority of both native-born Americans and immigrants say no. But twice as many immigrants as non-immigrants say yes (immigrants and non-immigrants are equally religious themselves). How religious is America, and how tolerant is it of non-believers? NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty reports.