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They run the increasingly influential Merge Records, but Superchunk band mates Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance have still managed to squeeze in some recording time. They've just released Majesty Shredding, their first new album of guitar-fueled rock in almost a decade.

Listeners respond to the discussion of the furor over the political cartoon in the New York Post, and to the story about the two teenage friends who were badly hurt after falling asleep on train tracks.

Listeners respond to last week's conversation with Joe Klein and Michael Erik Dyson about race and the attorney general's recent speech on the subject. And, there is praise for an interview with a Newfoundland fisherman who helped rescue a pod of dolphins from the ice.

Like many athletes before him, Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning stars in commercials hawking products. But, according to Frank Deford, his deadpan expression makes him better at it than the other guys.

Marcus Samuelsson was born in Ethiopia, raised in Sweden and now is a world-renowned chef in New York City. His Thanksgiving food traditions are as international as his life story. He sat down with NPR's Steve Inskeep to discuss what he's eating this year.

After working together on the films Ocean's 11, 12 and 13, actor Matt Damon and director Steven Soderbergh teamed up again on the film The Informant!, a dark comedy about a rising corporate executive at Archer Daniels Midland who blows the whistle on price fixing. This interview was originally broadcast on September 16, 2009.

President Obama is pushing his national security team for more detail about an exit strategy for U.S. forces fighting in Afghanistan. After a 2 1/2 hour meeting Wednesday, administration officials said the president does not plan to accept any of the options that were on the table in their current form.

With the release of her sixth album Seya, Oumou Sangare has gone from an outsider who sang about taboo subjects like polygamy and forced marriage to a major national celebrity.

Monday Jay Leno returns to 11:35 and The Tonight Show. His failed prime-time show — and the train wreck it created on NBC — hasn't been good for Leno's image. But Hollywood Reporter editor Andrew Wallenstein says Leno doesn't deserve to be vilified.

Workers once tore up a Phoenix parking lot and found nearly 200 ancient human burial sites under it, evidence of civilizations in centuries past. Commentator Craig Childs explores those worlds by trying to map the ancient world beneath the modern one.