All Things Considered

Emmylou Harris jokes that she's a "really good ex-wife" to her three former husbands. She just turned 64 and wrote most of the songs on her latest album, Hard Bargain. As she tells All Things Considered host Melissa Block, many of those new tracks are about taking stock of this phase of her life.

A partisan standoff over new Colorado congressional districts continues, and both Democrats and Republican release maps then criticize the other sides’ efforts. 

The Commerce Department says American’s personal incomes rose in March. But much of that extra money went to pay for more costly gasoline.

I'm not a violent man by nature, but I've had my scrapes and I've seen more than a few and if there's one unassailable truth I know about a fist-fight it's this: it doesn't matter who strikes first, or most, but only who strikes last. In a fight, to endure is everything. I'm not sure you can ever say someone "wins" a fight, but the last one standing generally stakes that claim. In that vein, the following three books follow winners who endure the slaps and stomps and gouges of a hard life fought well.

Butcher's Crossing

A landmark water agreement between Denver and western Colorado water agencies seeks to heal long-standing wounds from water battles that have sharply divided the state.