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American University professor Adrienne Pine made headlines after she breastfed her baby in the middle of a class lecture. Pine said she had no choice, but some say her decision was inappropriate. Host Michel Martin goes to the moms for their reactions. She checks in with Leslie Morgan Steiner, Jolene Ivey and Dani Tucker.

The two-lane stretch of Louisiana Highway 1 that cuts through the marshes of south Lafourche Parish is the only road to Port Fourchon, the oil and gas hub…

Louisiana Delta Community College is launching a campaign aimed at growing the middle class in the impoverished Delta country parishes of northeast…

Until a few weeks ago, no one took Rabbi Shmuley Boteach's campaign for Congress seriously — not even the Republican National Committee. But then a superPAC created to support Boteach received $500,000 from billionaire Sheldon Adelson. Now, the RNC believes the ultra-Orthodox rabbi might have a shot.

Earlier this summer, Pennsylvania's Commonwealth Court upheld the state's polarizing voter identification law. With Election Day nearing, the state's Supreme Court is considering a challenge to that decision. But voting rights activists are taking no chances, and are now trying to put a million photo ID cards in the hands of residents.

This past week was a challenging one for the Mitt Romney campaign. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz speaks to Noam Scheiber of The New Republic about whether pro-GOP superPACs could eventually throw more support behind House and Senate candidates in order to hedge against a Romney loss. But Jonathan Collegio, communications director for American Crossroads — one of the largest GOP PACs — says his group is far from that eventuality.

Mann has been making music since the 1980s; first, with the group 'Til Tuesday, and since then as an accomplished solo artist. Her new album, Charmer, is a series of character sketches exploring loyalty and exploitation.

Teachers' expectations about their students' abilities affect classroom interactions in myriad ways that can impact student performance. Students expected to succeed, for example, get more time to answer questions and more specific feedback. But training aimed at changing teaching behavior can also help change expectations.

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick faces federal charges he used city government to operate a widespread criminal enterprise. The government's case hinges on wiretaps, racy text messages, and testimony from some of Kilpatrick's childhood friends who worked in his administration.

The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single day in American history, and the partial victory by Union troops led Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Monday marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War battle that left 23,000 men killed or wounded on both sides.