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The Democratic presidential ticket campaigns in the Midwest. NPR's Steve Inskeep joins Sen. John Kerry and Sen. John Edwards as the "Believe in America" tour visits Missouri. The candidates discuss the conflict in Iraq and security at home.

The fate of abortion in Kansas could be in the hands of voters today. They'll decide whether the state constitution explicitly does not protect the right to an abortion.

Brace The Wave keeps the Sebadoh singer's sound stripped to its barren bones, an approach suited to the pleas and confessions therein.

On this week's All Songs Considered: fuzzy guitar rock from Broncho, a howling punk number from Brighton's The Wytches, a collaboration between Cat Power and Coldplay and much more.

This week, our hosts share an essential mix filled with song premieres. Hear new music from Mirah's first solo album in five years, Brody Dalle, The Fresh & Onlys, Chet Faker, and more!

Throughout his third solo album, K. Ishibashi broadens his palette, rendering his sound ever more frantic, unpredictable, digital and danceable.

The middle of the 20th century was a golden age for American symphonic music. From William Grant Still's celebration of African-American culture to Marc Blitzstein's ode to aviation and the U.S. military, Harvard scholar Carol Oja explores a compellingly diverse group of American symphonies.

Smith has a steady, well-trained swell of a voice and a knack for whipping in and out of his falsetto in a hairsbreadth. He doesn't feel the need to hide — certainly not by stifling his vocal skills.

From American modernism to Mendelssohn and the massive sound of Mahler, a wide-ranging top 10 list.

Best known for his series about Louisiana cop Dave Robicheaux, crime writer James Lee Burke moves westward in his latest novel. Rain Gods has a different protagonist, Hackberry Holland, and is set in the dry landscape of Texas.