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The Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler believes in speaking up. She says when we name the things that make us uncomfortable or afraid, then demons are faced, silences are broken and freedom is won.

In this week's politics update, NPR's Political Junkie, Ken Rudin, talks about the primaries in Ohio, North Carolina and Indiana, a surprising defeat in Nebraska, and a not-so-surprising victory in New Jersey.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says he will support legislation that would give the nearly 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States a "path to legalization."

Singer/songwriter Neko Case possesses one of the most distinctive voices in modern music. Some writers are already predicting that her latest, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, will end up one of the year's best. In a recent interview, Neko Case sang, played her guitar and spoke about her music with music journalist Ashley Kahn.

Just in time for the Persian New Year, there's a new English translation of the Shahnameh — the epic "Persian Book of Kings" written over the course of 35 years in the 11th century AD by the poet Abolqasem Ferdowsi.

Facing tough questioning on Capitol Hill, Gen. Michael Hayden argues that domestic wiretapping is a vital national policy that does not violate American's civil rights. Siobhan Gorman, intelligence correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, provides an update on Hayden's Senate Intelligence Committee hearings.

Every morning, a group meets inside the U.S. State Department to come up with ways to respond to media around the world. The people in this room are just one part of an effort to repair a major problem: the declining image of the United States overseas.

The government possesses powerful data-mining technology to find patterns that could help catch suspected terrorists. But it must use it in a way that doesn't hurt ordinary Americans, the head of a government advisory panel says.

President Yushchenko's party did poorly in Ukraine's weekend elections, apparently coming in third. The pro-Russia party led by Viktor Yanukovych appears to have won the largest number of votes, spurring talk of a coalition of other parties to keep the pro-Russia types out of government.

President Bush calls Joshua Bolten, his new chief of staff, a "creative policy thinker." In more informal circles, he's known as a budget cruncher who cruises around on a motorcycle.