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This week: Ice-T, Libyan novelist Hisham Matar, the multi-ethnic world of the Fast And The Furious franchise, and what happened when they took Everybody Loves Raymond to Russian television, on this week's podcast of NPR's arts and culture stories.

"Yes there was an intelligence failure," Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said. [But] it is not only ours but of all the intelligence agencies of the world." Gilani also said bin Laden's killing was justified.

The conventional wisdom on Jon Huntsman, former U.S. ambassador to China and ex-Utah governor, is that if he should announce a run for the Republican presidential nomination, his candidacy would readily be sunk by the WOE (Was Obama's Emissary) factor. That could be too simplistic.

Paula Abdul has officially joined Simon Cowell for his new show, The X Factor. Whether the new show is a threat to their old show, American Idol, remains to be seen, but Idol has some big weaknesses that might be ripe for exploiting.

William Dodd served for four years as the ambassador to Germany before resigning — after repeated clashes with both Nazi Party officials and the State Department. Erik Larson chronicles Dodd's time in Berlin in his new book, In the Garden of Beasts.

A retired police officer and a retired Secret Service agent helped wrestle a man to the cabin floor after he began pounding on the cockpit as an American Airlines flight approached San Francisco, authorities said.

During next week’s primary, as they have done for decades, members of the Democratic Party will choose their candidates and Republicans will do the same.…

Los Angeles County's Men's Central Jail is the largest jail in the country. The American Civil Liberties Union closely monitors the facility and says it should be closed because of overcrowding, violence and a dress code that singles out homosexual inmates. In this "Behind Closed Doors" segment, host Michel Martin discusses the harsh life in the Men's Central Jail with ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero.

Gingrich will enter the race with a level of name recognition other candidates would love to have.Of course, not all of that recognition is positive. His infidelities are well known and should make it harder for him to get social conservatives on his side.