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Retired Republican political consultant ED ROLLINS. He's just written a book chronicling his 30 years in American politics, "Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms: My Life in American Politics" (with Tom DeFrank, published by Broadway Books). ROLLINS began his political life a Democrat, working for Bobby Kennedy's campaign in 1968. After an experience at a violent demonstration, though, he became a Republican and worked his way up to become President Reagan's top political advisor. He managed the land-slide Reagan re-election. He also chaired Jack Kemp's unsuccessful 1988 presidential bid and for a short stint managed Ross Perot 1992 independent presidential campaign. Controversial for his outspoken and rough manner, ROLLINS is most recently remembered for inadvertently revealing the supposed pay-offs given to black ministers so they would surpress black voter turnout in the 1993 gubernatorial campaign of Christine Todd Whitman. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW

Bieber's current single, "Baby," from his chart-topping album My World 2.0, is a slickly peppy bit of pop-soul that wears its freshly broken heart on its sleeve. Along the way, it neatly accomplishes the trick of tugging at the sympathies of Bieber's most besotted fans.

Just after the snow melts but long before the last frost, hardy New Englanders take to moist meadows and muddy riverbanks in search of the fiddlehead fern. It looks like the scrolled top of a violin and tastes a little like asparagus.

A top State Department official wants to unleash the power of Twitter, Facebook and other services to crowdsource the fight to control the world's nuclear weapons.

A corruption investigation in Turkey has already forced three cabinet ministers to resign. Turkish media reports say the scandal reaches to the top of the government of Prime Minister Erdogan. He's denies wrongdoing, accusing his opponents and foreign governments of conspiring to bring him down.

At least 12 people, including five foreign contractors, are killed in a car bombing in Baghdad. Over the past three days, a series of attacks have killed numerous Iraqis, including a senior civil servant and a top official in the foreign ministry. The attacks illustrate the security concerns Iraq's new government faces as it prepares to assume sovereignty June 30. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem that behind last month's eruption of violence over an obscure archaeological tunnel lies the bigger issue troubling the city's future: the challenge to the status quo whereby each religion respects and honors the holy places of their rival religions. That Palestinians are sensitive to each and every change in the makeup of Old Jerusalem can be explained by the fact that militant Zionists are insisting on encroaching and praying in the Muslim's holy sanctuary of Haram al Sahrif, on top of the Temple Mount.

An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.

For many weeks, the president said he would step away from managing his businesses, but he offered no evidence. Now documents are turning up, showing he no longer is listed as top executive.

In Russia, anger and frustration are growing over the country's political system and its two leaders, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev — including in their hometown, St. Petersburg. In particular, many are critical of Putin's attempt to reclaim the presidency.