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Are street shrines meaningful memorials, or a public menace? Shirley Skeel reports on street shrines in Oakland, Calif., that honor victims of gang violence -- and how the decision of local police to remove the shrines has divided that community.

Music journalist Ashley Kahn profiles Alice Coltrane, widow of jazz legend John Coltrane. Alice Coltrane is a musician and bandleader in her own right and has just released her first album in 25 years.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with the executive director of Avow, Aimee Arrambide, about how Avow and other grassroots abortion-rights organizations are preparing for a post-Roe world.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Wall Street Journal reporter David Wessel about the strategy President Bush might use to secure passage of his second-term economic agenda.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on an airport hangar in the former East Germany, once used for technologically advanced cargo shipping scheme that went belly up, now converted into a theme park called Tropical Islands Resort.

Making-up 60 percent of Iraq's population, Shiite Muslims look to be big winners in the Jan. 30 elections. Some worry the Shia community is too close to Iran and could push the country toward a more theocratic model. But some experts believe the Shia may be democracy's best hope in a new Iraq. Hear NPR's Mike Shuster.

For most opera critics and fans today, America's reigning soprano is Renée Fleming. In her new autobiography The Inner Voice, Fleming offers a candid, behind-the-scenes look at the life of an opera singer. She talk's with NPR's Fred Child.

Four-time Tony winner Audra McDonald has starred on Broadway with a soprano voice that draws comparisons to Barbara Streisand. As she opens the seventh season of Lincoln Center's American Songbook series, she talks about the joys of being onstage.

In the wake of last week's Indian Ocean tsunami, NPR's Tony Cox takes a closer look at American aid and its political implications. He's joined by Tom McCawley of The Christian Science Monitor, Susan Rice, former assistant secretary of state for African affairs during the Clinton administration, and Clifford May, president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.

The 3rd Infantry Division, which led the U.S. Army's invasion of Iraq last year, is preparing to return to the embattled country. Iraq's resilient insurgency has altered the way the division trains for war -- and changed the way some soldiers view the conflict. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.