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With the White House embroiled in three concurrent scandals this week, Weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden speaks with James Fallows, national correspondent with The Atlantic , about the way forward for the president and for Congress, with recent history as their guide.

How enthusiastic can NPR be in avoiding the emerging Obama scandals? Try this: So-called "All Things Considered" aired no features on Benghazi or the IRS on Saturday or Sunday.

In this week's podcast of Weekends on All Things Considered : Guantanamo, an increasingly multiracial America, closed-caption glasses in movie theatres, James Salter's new novel, a biography of Robert "Believe It Or Not" Ripley, and the soul-infused jazz of Rudresh Mahanthappa.

The weekends on All Things Considered series Movies I've Seen A Million Times features filmmakers, actors, writers and directors talking about the movies that they never get tired of watching.

For our series on the Changing Lives of Women, we're asking NPR women about their careers - and inviting you to join the conversation.

This past week, the Pentagon fired off a stern warning about Chinese computer hacking, and the Chinese responded with a tense rebuttal.

Ripley's pioneering mix of the strange, the shocking and the barely believable grabbed Americans' attention and grew his newspaper cartoon into a media empire.

Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Arun Rath talks to pediatrician Stephen Teach about teen suicide and how to prevent it.

This is the tale of turkey tail - it's convoluted arrival, disappearance, and highly anticipated return to the Pacific island the Republic of Samoa .

For our series on the Changing Lives of Women, we're asking NPR women about their careers - and inviting you to join the conversation.

Why not just settle for the huge drop in polio cases that we've seen over the past decade and then spend money on other things that kill so many more kids, like diarrhea and malnutrition? "Polio is special," Gates tells NPR's Robert Siegel on All Things Considered .

Walker, 60, was the local host for "All Things Considered" and the station's evening programming.

Project, helping bring to the public stories about the places that will define the future of human settlement and development.

In this week's podcast of Weekends on All Things Considered : targeted killings, a game-changing week in Syria, the coming out of Glenn Burke, a remembrance of Hunter S. Thompson's trip to the 1970 Kentucky Derby, and the Somali dance music of Dur-Dur Band.

Imagine the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu, in the 1980s. You can't, right? Neither can most music critics.

The weekends on All Things Considered series Movies I've Seen A Million Times features filmmakers, actors, writers and directors talking about the movies that they never get tired of watching.

Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Kelly McEvers talks to Jack Boogaard, the assistant superintendent of schools in Leemore, Calif., about how schools near military bases rely on federal money, much of which has been lost because of the budget cuts known as sequestration.

From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Melissa Block. The unemployment rate edged down a tiny bit today to 7.5 percent.

Are you a teenager with a story to tell? NPR and Radio Diaries want to hear it. Write it down, photograph it and then submit it to the storytelling site Cowbird .

The Miami group Tiempo Libre combines hip-hop, R&B, rock and pan-Latin sounds to create a distinctive version of Cuban World music DJ Betto Arcos returns to weekends on All Things Considered to share what he's been spinning on Global Village , the show he hosts on KPFK in Los Angeles.