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John with some thoughts about the reasons people vote or not vote for certain candidates.

NPR's Mark Roberts reports on how one man's threat to destroy old silver mines on his property in Ouray County, Colorado prompted the National Trust for Historic Preservation to list the Red Mountain Mining District as one of the most endangered historic sites in the country. (6:00).

Ydstie/Stern--John talks with food writer Michael Stern about that nostalgic American meal known as the casserole. The dish is making a comeback. (2:45).

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with Bill Kristol, editor and publisher of the Weekly Standard, and pollster Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the Press and the People, about the Republican National Convention.

A sound montage of some of the voices in the news, focusing on the principals gathered at this past week's Republican Convention in Philadelphia including Colin Powell, former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff; First Lady of Texas, Laura Bush; former Secretary of Defense and presidential running mate Richard Cheney; Texas Governor George W. Bush, accepting his party's nomination for president.

John talks with Fortune Magazine's editor at large Joe Nocera of Al Gore's difficulties to make the nation's prosperous economy translate into electoral benefits.

John speaks with producer and musician Paul Mills about his friend, Stan Rogers, the late great Canadian folk singer.

Writer Paul Auster continues with stories sent in by our listeners.

In the summer of 1944, a young black woman boarded a bus in Gloucester, Virginia headed for Baltimore. Sitting in the "Negroes Only" section, she was asked to give up her seat when a white couple boarded. Irene Morgan refused, went to jail, and lost at trial. But a young Thurgood Marshall took the case all the way to the Supreme Court, some eleven years before Rosa Parks, and won a ruling that found segregation in interstate travel unconstitutional. This weekend, the town of Gloucester honors the 83-year-old for her courage.

NPR's Steve Inskeep reports from the train caravan carrying the Republican nominee for president. Gov. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney campaigned through Michigan today on a three-day swing through the Midwest.