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Former president Jimmy Carter is monitoring Nicaragua's presidential elections. This is President Carter's fourth time monitoring Nicaraguan elections with the Carter Center. He talks with host Debbie Elliott about how the elections -- and Ortega himself -- look different this time around.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) talks with Alex Chadwick about the Democratic Party's big win in the 2006 midterm elections, and how Republicans will deal with their legislative rivals now that they will be the minority party after 12 years of congressional GOP rule.

Isabel Allende's novel, Ines of My Soul, is a fictionalized account of the life of Ines Suarez, a seamstress who helped found Chile. The story led Allende to empathize with both sides of a centuries-old conflict.

Adjustable-rate mortgages, ARMs for short, have been a popular way for people to buy a home. The loans will adjust to higher rates in the next two years, and that has many experts making dire predictions about the housing markets.

For 50 years, New York poet Samuel Menashe toiled away at his art in relative obscurity. But he recently received the first-ever Neglected Masters Award from the Poetry Foundation in Chicago, and now a wider audience is becoming acquainted with his simple but deeply reflective verse.

President Bush announces the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at a White House news conference. In a later media session, Bush and Rumsfeld shared a podium with Rumsfeld's successor, former CIA chief Robert Gates. Melissa Block talks with NPR's John Hendren.

In recent elections, political analysts have said the GOP has better campaign tactics. But the Democratic upset Tuesday challenged that so-called conventional wisdom about the kind of strategies that win elections. Have Democrats outsmarted Karl Rove?

Melissa Block talks with Ken Pollack, senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. Pollack worked with Robert Gates at the CIA and NSC, and will talk with us about what kind of Secretary of Defense he may make.

Daniel Ortega appears to be headed for victory in Nicaragua's presidential elections, as partial election results show the former revolutionary holding a substantial lead over his rivals. With returns in from nearly 50 percent of polling stations, the Sandinista Party candidate has just over 40 percent of the vote.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld resigns as Republicans reel from a devastating Democratic win in Tuesday's congressional and gubernatorial elections.