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Knitting superstar Debbie Stoller tells Liane Hansen about her latest stitch-by-stitch instruction book, The Happy Hooker. This time, Stoller takes on the art of crocheting.

Once a thriving river port, the southern Iraqi city of Basra fell on hard times during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war and years of U.N. sanctions. Three years after the U.S. invasion, the city is still mired in poverty, and daily life in this once cosmopolitian city is being transformed by the growing power of conservative Islamist parties.

Ben Berman lost his job as an airline pilot shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. Three and a half years later, Berman returns to work behind the controls of a Continental 737.

Critics of President Bush say he misled the nation. In speeches, the president and Vice President Dick Cheney now accuse their critics of rewriting history. We check the facts with a pair of reporters who covered some of that history.

More than 100 people in Iraq have died in 19 suicide bombings in the last three days. Dozens were killed when a suicide bomber blew up a fuel tanker, causing the heaviest death toll since Iraq's new government took power. Al Qaeda in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the string of attacks.

The Tesla and SpaceX mogul said he needs to make sure the fake accounts "do indeed represent less than 5%" of Twitter's users, as the company has estimated.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with journalist and activist Gloria Steinem about her reaction to news that the U.S. Supreme Court appears poised to strike down Roe v. Wade.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Elaine Hsieh Chou about her recent essay in Vanity Fair, which addresses how Hollywood perpetuates Asian stereotypes.

An NPR/Ipsos poll shows a stark partisan split on laws that prevent transgender youth from accessing medical care for gender transition.

Workers at Amazon, Starbucks and other companies are charting a new course for organizing a union. Labor journalist Chris Brooks says organized labor needs to pay attention and support them.