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NPR's Melissa Block talks with South Carolina Sen. Sandy Senn, who was one of six Republican state senators who helped block a near-total abortion ban from advancing.

Just two years after the Kansas City Chiefs edged out the Philadelphia Eagles in a thrilling Super Bowl, the two football powerhouses will face off once again on the championship stage.

Wendy Weiser, the vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center for Justice, discusses the impact of President Trump's recent urging of Republicans to "nationalize" voting.

While other states move to restrict voting, in New York ballot measures would authorize state lawmakers to enact same-day voter registration and no-excuse absentee voting.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Michael Greenstone, professor and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago the impact of the rising cost of carbon on climate policy.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Phil Bryant, the former governor of Mississippi, who signed a bill that bans abortions after 15 weeks.

Composer David Diamond died Monday at age 89. Diamond's works have been compared to those by Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. Blair talks about Diamond's life and about his composition Rounds.

Melissa Block talks with Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) about his meetings with Republican and Democratic Senators to try and broker a compromise on judicial nominations and the use of the filibuster. Among the Senators he's been meeting with today: John McCain (R-Ariz.), John Warner (R-Va.), Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine).

The Colombian politician was on her way to a remote village when she was abducted by members of the FARC in 2002. At first she thought she'd be held for only a few weeks — but then six years passed. She says she didn't want to make it easy on her captors despite being tortured, underfed and forced to march through the rain forest.

Many of Spencer's novels feature a turning point — a dreadful, unplanned act committed by one of the characters. In his latest book, Man in the Woods, a carpenter accidentally kills a man, which leads him to question himself and his relationship with God.