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Host Michel Martin hears from two members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus about why they're reluctant to approve a U.S. strike on Syria. She's joined by Representative Barbara Lee of California and Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland.

Director John Krasinski's tense, well-acted horror film is about a family attempting to survive an invasion by terrifying creatures who hunt via sound.

It's not often that you hear of a record company being destroyed by success, but that was the fate of one of America's most prominent soul labels, Vee-Jay Records. They recorded John Lee Hooker, the Four Seasons and Betty Everett, but the music has been unavailable for decades. A new box set ends the wait.

The NCAA has not yet acted in response to a number of states that have are proposing new laws to restrict the athletic activities of transgender girls and women.

1: Photographer JOHN DUGDALE is joined by psychotherapist ROBERT LEVITHAN to talk about a new class of AIDS fighting drugs. Both men have the AIDS virus but are being treated with a new class of drugs that have enhanced the quality of their health and lives. They are receiving protease inhibitors which have the effect of blocking an enzyme crucial to the life cycle of of the AIDS virus. These drugs are considered the most significant breakthrough in the fight against AIDS since the epidemic began. JOHN DUGDALE is a New York photographer who lost more than 75 percent of his vision to an AIDS related condition. But he continues to work as a photographer saying that he uses the fuzzy gray images that he sees as his guide. His photographs are collected in the recent book "Lengthening Shadows Before Nightfall" (Twin Palms Publishing) ROBERT LEVITHAN (lev-eh-than) is a New York psychotherapist who primarly counsels people with AIDS. He also conducts workshops called "out living AIDS" for those with AIDS who are living longer than expected. He is currently writing a book about that is expected to be called "Outliving Myself."

McEnroe reflects on his career in a new Showtime documentary. Shires examines the fault lines in her marriage on her new album, Take it Like a Man,

John Perry Barlow has died at 70. Barlow was the co-founder of the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation. He was also a lyricist for the Grateful Dead.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in a Shell: Snippets for Wandering Minds."

Force has been drag racing professionally since 1974. The 65-year-old has gone from blowing up his 10,000-horsepower engines to winning championships, and he has all the scars to prove it.

The third installment of the Keanu-as-super-assassin series triples down on the gorgeously staged violence, but little things like his character's motivation get hopelessly muddled.

Jaime Cortez's debut collection, Gordo, is set in and around the same dusty California town that inspired John Steinbeck. It's a lovely portrait of a time and place that still manages to be universal.

The 34,000-square-foot building is under development at the corner of Ashland and Rutland avenues in East Baltimore.

Melissa Block talks with Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota about his party's plan now that they've won the Senate.

NPR's Kelly McEvers interviews Republican Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, who was one of the people who worked on the Senate health care bill, about the last minute negotiations and the finished product.

Guitarist John Scofield picks 10 of his favorite tracks from his own catalog and shares the stories behind them as he celebrates 50 years of recorded music.

On the Housechronicles Boehner's humble rise in national politics and his front-row seat to the revolution within his Republican party that ultimately forced him out of Congress.

The Firm was the book that turned John Grisham into a writing superstar. Now three decades later, he's returned to the characters that made him, with his follow up book The Exchange.

On Aug. 28, 1963, Lewis was the youngest speaker to address the estimated quarter-million people gathered in Washington. Now a Georgia congressman, he says: "I'm not prepared to sit down and give up."

John Scott is the most unlikely NHL All Star. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo! Sports about how the enforcer scored two goals and was an MVP at Sunday night's All-Star Game.

Once read on radio by Orson Welles, "With Your Wings" had never been seen in print. Now, after a fateful discovery, it's set to be published. Also: Joshua Ferris has won the Dylan Thomas Prize.