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Robert Siegel talks with reporter Peggy Lowe, a reporter with the Rocky Mountain News, about the trial of two therapists accused of child abuse in the death of a 10-year-old girl. At the center of the case is the controversial practice of "rebirthing" therapy. In this case, Candace Newmaker was suffocated as she underwent the therapy.

Commentator Jan Ting, a Delaware delegate at the Republican convention, says he is deeply moved by the experience of staying at the newly opened Millennium Hilton Hotel overlooking the World Trade Center site.

This week, during the Republican National Convention, writer and resident scholar James Bowman of the Ethics and Public Policy Center will chronicle the event in a series of daily poems. As the convention begins, Bowman greets delegates and demonstrators alike.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Anthony Cordesman about the next focus of the military campaign in Iraq: Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit prominent among them. Mr. Cordesman is a senior fellow and co-director of Middle East Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Robert Siegel talks with Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies about the security situation in Iraq. Cordesman says U.S. and U.N. resources currently in Iraq can't possibly protect all of their buildings and people.

James Dobbins directs the Rand Corporation's International Security and Defense Policy Center. In the second of two perspectives on Iraq, he says there are lessons to be learned from conflicts in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.

The dark, supernatural mystery is one of a few new shows centering Black characters.

Health care vans that provided COVID testing and vaccines in the pandemic are now providing a range of health services in hard-to-reach communities. New access to federal funds could expand the trend.

Some who witnessed the attacks on the World Trade Center are still suffering from PTSD and depression from the trauma. Help and treatment are available through a special federal program.

There are two million children of U.S. military servicemen and women. And by many accounts the military has long done a good job of helping with their education, especially in preschool.