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Robert talks with Jim Hall, former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, about NASA's decision to use the NTSB model to figure out why the Columbia broke up on re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.

CDC endorses booster doses of Moderna and J&J vaccines. Many people apply to nursing school, but there aren't enough teachers. An interview with the secretary of Department of Veterans Affairs.

Vinyl records are once again the highest-grossing physical format for the music industry. The sales of vinyl exploded during the pandemic.

President Bush sends Congress a 2004 budget totaling $2.23 trillion, with the largest increases going to defense and homeland security. The budget assumes a new round of tax cuts, but doesn't account for a possible Iraq war. The proposal also includes the largest deficit in America's history -- more than $300 billion. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

He is a former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, and is now professor of national-security studies at the National War College in Washington, D.C. Since the late 1980s he has been tracking Iraqi war crimes. He has also worked closely with the Kurds -- who control a small territory in northern Iraq. Galbraith will talk about what a post-Saddam Iraq might look like.

Hospitals are in dire need of nurses. There's often 800 people applying to community college nursing programs offering 50 slots. One main reason is that there aren't enough people to teach nursing.

Watching The French Dispatch is like seeing an issue of The New Yorker come to life. Wes Anderson's new film is based on articles of a fictional magazine published in a fictional city in France.

Beyond the obvious sacrifices of shipping out for a possible war effort, Camp Pendleton's departing Marines are learning how hard it is to leave loved ones behind -- furry loved ones.

The Canadian government is turning back many of the hundreds of Pakistanis at the U.S. border. The men seeking asylum in Canada say they're afraid they'll be detained if they register with the U.S. government as required. Officials at the United Nations High Commission on Refugees are calling on the Bush administration to stop the detentions, at least in cases where families are left stranded when their men are taken into custody.

Guest host Jacki Lyden speaks with University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer about the argument for Saddam Hussein's containment and why it did not prevail in Washington.