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Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader seeks to ease Democrats' concerns that he will distract voters from their efforts to unseat President George Bush. Political analysts are debating what effect Nader could have in swing states like Oregon and Florida. Hear NPR's Michele Norris, the University of South Florida's Susan MacManus and Robert Eisenger of Lewis and Clark College in Portland.

Director Wolfgang Becker's Goodbye, Lenin, follows the efforts of a young man who transforms his family's apartment into an island of the past on doctor's orders. The time-capsule measures are meant to shield his socialist mother -- recently recovered from a coma -- from traumatic events. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Becker.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Maj. Blain Reeves of the 101st Airborne Division, who was executive officer in charge of 700 troops in Iraq. Three soldiers from his unit were killed in one of the first ambushes by insurgents after the occupation began. He arrived back from Iraq on February 14 and is based at Ft. Campbell, Ky.

Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide steps aside after months of protests and an armed revolt swept his Caribbean nation. Following the country's constitutional procedure, Supreme Court head Boniface Alexandre has taken over as president. U.S. troops are on the way to join a multinational force to help stabilize the nation. NPR's Gerry Hadden and NPR's Martin Kaste report.

President George Bush calls Sen. John Kerry to congratulate him for the Tuesday wins that likely clinched the Democratic nomination for Kerry. The Bush-Cheney campaign is reportedly set to begin its media campaign later this week. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Don Gonyea.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with former Mississippi Gov. William Winter. During his years in office, from 1980 to 1984, Gov. Winter overhauled an impoverished state's educational system and addressed desegregation.

In the last of Morning Edition's series of commentaries on presidents and religion, Cathy Young says an active religious faith seems to have become a pre-requisite for running for president. She worries that candidates who are not publicly religious will have little chance of being elected.

As Sunday night's Oscar awards approach, we unearth a gem from the Lost and Found Sound archives from 1977 -- a home recording of 5-year-old Sofia Coppola, nominated for best director for Lost in Translation. Coppola is being interviewed by her father, Oscar winner Francis Ford Coppola, who asks his daughter to talk to her future adult self.

Singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell has been personally and professionally linked to some of country music's biggest stars. He's written songs for Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris, and he's the former son-in-law of Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash. Crowell talks to NPR's John Ydstie about his introspective new album Fate's Right Hand.

Nonagenarian political activist Doris Haddock, better known to NPR listeners as Granny D, is still at it. Her core issue is now voter registration, but campaign finance reform remains close to her heart.