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The Wall Street Journal opinion writers likened Mitt Romney's attempt to defend his Massachusetts health care law with its individual mandate and oppose the federal law to a foolhardy daredevil jump by Evel Knievel.

After six years on Saturday Night Live and many supporting film parts, Kristen Wiig has her first starring role in the romantic comedy Bridesmaids, which has been touted as a Judd Apatow movie for ladies. Critic David Edelstein says it's likely to be a hit with both women and men.

His third novel, Super Sad True Love Story, is a black comedy set in a futuristic America — where books don't exist and where the economy has collapsed. Shteyngart explains why he decided to write a love story in this dystopic vision of the future — and why he thinks technology is changing the way we think.

The 'Barbershop' guys discuss President Obama's immigration reform record and rapper Common's invitation to the White House for a poetry reading. Host Michel Martin hears from author Jimi Izrael, civil rights attorney Arsalan Iftikhar, foreign policy analyst Mario Loyola and syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette.

More than 22,000 would-be immigrants thought they had won a visa lottery to come to the U.S., but the State Department said it is scratching the results because of a programming error.

President Obama traveled to El Paso, Texas to give an immigration speech this week. The GOP presidential race heated up as Mitt Romney tried distancing himself from the universal health care law he passed as governor of Massachusetts. Congressional Republicans and Democrats are preparing for a showdown over the federal deficit. Host Michel Martin talks about this week's politics with Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Cynthia Tucker and Republican strategist Ron Christie.

The government says that a bad economy has shortened the lives of the trust funds that support the nation's two biggest benefit programs.

The 1981 self-portrait taken by celebrated photographer Cindy Sherman was sold at a Christie's auction Wednesday.

As part of a series on obesity, NPR is working on a story about clothing. Finding the perfect fit has been elusive — for instance, she's a size 8 at Barney's and at Chico's she's 0 --except that over the last 5-10 years, spandex has made it easier. We're looking for women who've noticed the trend and would like to talk about it.

Jonathan Coulton's songs almost never get played on the radio. He doesn't have a contract with a music label. Yet he's a one man counterargument to the idea that musicians can't make money making music. In 2010, his music brought in $500,000.