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NPR's Tavis Smiley concludes his weeklong roundtable discussion on faith, religion and morality with a spirited debate on the present and future of faith communities in the United States.

Ireland's economic boom has made the once-neglected town of Kinvara a target for developers. And even as it grows again, Kinvara has returned to an ancient tradition: music, rendered by fiddles, banjos and songs. Frank Browning reports for the documentary series "Worlds of Difference."

As millions of dollars flow into aid organizations helping the victims of the tsunami, newspapers and Web sites continue to list mostly the largest and most reputable relief organizations. But some people have begun to suggest donations to smaller, indigenous grassroots organizations. NPR's Margot Adler reports.

CBS News fires three executives and a producer over their roles in a flawed story about President Bush's National Guard service. An independent review gives a detailed look at how the story came to be broadcast on that edition of 60 Minutes Wednesday. NPR's David Folkenflik reports.

A freighter carrying nearly 500,000 gallons of fuel runs aground off the coast of Alaska in the Aleutian chain. A search continues for six crewmembers missing in the frigid Bering Sea. NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Lyndon Wilson, father of Army Spc. Thomas Wilson, a member of a Tennessee National Guard unit stationed in the Persian Gulf, who questioned Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld about equipment shortfalls. Rumsfeld visited Camp Buehring in Kuwait on Wednesday, and took questions from the 2,300 soldiers listening to his address.

Recent debate over the intelligence reform bill raised to a national level the divisive issue of granting drivers' licenses to illegal immigrants, but states have been struggling with the problem for decades. The central question is how to protect public safety without rewarding illegal entry. NPR's Carrie Kahn reports.

Clarinetist Don Byron is known for musical experimentation with classical compositions, Latin dance grooves, hip-hop and more. Now he returns to a first love, jazz, with a CD dedicated to saxophonist Lester Young.

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks with NPR's Mike Shuster about elections in Iraq, which are set for the end of January. Both U.S. and Iraqi officials insist the elections will go forward as scheduled on the 30th, despite deadly insurgent attacks intended to intimidate voters from going to the polls.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Heather MacDonald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute think tank, who defends the Bush administration's position on the interrogation and treatment of so-called enemy combatants in detention.