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Robert talks to Adam Eidinger, an organizer with the Justice Action Movement, which will be taking part in protests against the inauguration of George W. Bush. Justice Action Network has been a part of large protests around the country against the World Trade Organization and World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Eidinger supported Ralph Nader in the November presidential election, and believes Bush's presidency is illegitimate.

W.G. Snuffy Walden's new CD is called music by.... It's a collection of themes and incidental music that he's written for television. Walden's music has appeared on Felicity, Rosanne, Once and Again and Thirtysomething. His latest score is the theme to NBC's The West Wing. Noah Adams talks with Walden about how he writes music for TV and the concept behind the West Wing theme.

Ahead of his delivery of a Jefferson Lecture in Washington, D.C., playwright Arthur Miller talks about his lecture topic: Politics and the Art of Acting. He calls it an "attempt to contrast the sincerity of certain people with the performance psychology of so many of them," from FDR, Clinton and Gore to Reagan and George W. Bush.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Sergeant Rob MacLean, Public Information Officer for the United States Park Police on the White House shooting; President George W. Bush and Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle; new Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon; and Darrell Ames, spokesman for the US Navy Pacific Fleet.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including International Olympic Committee President Dr. Jacques Rogge; Canadian figure skater David Pelletier; Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.); former Enron Chairman and CEO Kenneth Lay; Representative Martin Meehan (D-Mass.); Representative Dick Armey (R-Tex.); President George W. Bush; Senator James Jeffords (I-Vt.); and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.

Ann Elise Henzl (ANN-uh-LEESE HEN-zul) of member station WUWM reports that Wisconsin is set to initiate the country's first statewide program that requires all welfare recipients to perform some work in exchange for benefits. Folks who can't find work will receive grants in exchange for community service work. Some critics of the "W-2" program say this provision will lock people into low-wage jobs, with little chance for advancement to self-sufficiency.

Joshua Levs of member station W-A-B-E reports on the case of James Earl Ray, who was convicted of the assination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Ray pled guilty to the charge of murder at the time, but he has long held that he is innocent and was coerced into the guilty plea by his lawyers. Now Ray is dying of liver cancer and wants to have a trial.

Meet everybody's favorite unknown Seattle band. Pearl Jam chose the Fastbacks as the opening act for its current world tour. The Fastbacks have been laboring for nearly twenty years on the Seattle club scene. They've watched as their friends became famous (during the major label feeding frenzy that descended on Seattle during the grunge boom) and they didn't. But they've persevered. Marcie Sillman, of member station K-U-O-W, reports.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on President-elect George W. Bush's day in Austin, Texas, a day that led off with the naming of Paul O'Neill as his choice for Treasury Secretary. O'Neill's close relationship with Fed chairman Alan Greenspan has been cited as a "plus" for the selection. Other Cabinet appointments are expected to follow. Bush also met with a group of ministers to talk about the need for healing after a very contentious election.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports on the latest personnel announcements of President-elect George W. Bush, starting with Missouri Senator John Ashcroft for Attorney General. Ashcroft, a strong conservative, was defeated in his bid for re-election last month by the late Mel Carnahan. He's also a former two-term governor and state attorney general. New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman was chosen to head the Environmental Protection Agency.