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A proverbial hearts-and-minds campaign is being waged from a U.S. military base in the tiny African nation of Djibouti. U.S. soldiers are digging wells and building schools throughout the region, not kicking down doors in search of terrorist suspects. It's what some think the war on terrorism should look like.

The vast majority of America's recorded legacy is out of print. That's the finding of a study by the Library of Congress. The report shows that consumers can purchase less than 30 percent of U.S. sound recordings made before 1965. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.

Ahmad Chalabi, deputy prime minister of Iraq, says he did not vet the information his group provided the Bush administration on weapons of mass destruction. That information has since been discredited. Chalabi says his relations with Washington seem to have improved since last year, when he was accused of passing classified information to Iran.

Douglas Kmiec, chair and professor of constitutional law at Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., and Jeffrey Rosen, professor at George Washington University Law School and legal affairs editor at The New Republic discuss what has happened so far in day two of the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.

Will increased Sunni participation in Iraqi politics lead to a decline in violence? Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Saleh Mutlak of the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue.

Two days after the West Virginia mining community of Sago learned that 12 men had died in a mining disaster, families are still seeking answers about how false hopes were raised and then dashed.

NPR's Michel Martin talks with former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder about the debate over changes to the Supreme Court, which he advocates for in his book Our Unfinished March.

A Czech hobbyist who returned a Colorado veteran's bracelet he found at a former World War II prisoner of war camp finally got to meet the veteran, traveling halfway around the world to do so.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kathleen Belew, an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago, on the threat of white supremacist movements in the U.S.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz about how the city of Buffalo, New York, is responding to Saturday's shooting.