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Psychologist and author Kay Redfield Jamison has firsthand knowledge of mental illness. She believes her own battle with manic depression has made her a better teacher and a more empathetic person.

Tim Winter is executive director of the Parents Television Council, a watchdog group that speaks out against sex, violence, and profanity in the media.

The White House is trying to contain possible damage from a Pentagon report on abuse of the Quran at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan says the media is blowing "isolated incidents" out of proportion.

In a Morning Edition commentary, Melissa Herman describes hearing bad news about Iraq and fearing the worst about her husband, an Army helicopter pilot deployed there. Her essay is part of a project National Endowment for the Arts called Operation Homecoming.

U.S. first lady Jill Biden spent Mother's Day in Slovakia, meeting Ukrainian mothers who have been displaced by Russia's war and assuring them that the "hearts of the American people" are behind them.

In 1932, The New York Times' Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for stories defending Soviet policies that led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians. The Times disavows his work but not the prize.

Classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz reviews a new DVD, Mary Martin and Ethel Merman: Their Ford 50th Anniversary Show Appearance.

Researchers in London who analyzed the final novel by author Iris Murdoch have detected signs of Alzheimer's disease in the book's language. Murdoch wrote Jackson's Dilemma just before she was diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Dr. Peter Garrard, lead author of the study.

Author Tim Tyson's Blood Done Sign My Name tells the story of the racial and sexual tension surrounding a 1970 lynching in Tyson's hometown of Oxford, N.C.

Scientists say the arthritis drug Bextra may pose increased risk of cardiovascular troubles. Bextra is related to Vioxx, which was pulled off the market in September for the same reason. Now, doctors worry that all related drugs could cause similar problems. Hear NPR's Richard Knox.