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Oregon holds its primary on May 20. Find out which issues matter most to voters in the Beaver State, how Senator Gordon Smith’s re-election campaign is going, and why the candidates in one House race are using personal attacks against each other. Also: why some are already saying that Oregon will be a battleground state in the fall campaign. David Steves is political reporter for The Register-Guard in Eugene, Ore. He works in the paper’s Salem bureau and also writes a blog . States of the Union fact of the week: Oregon is one of four major world hazelnut growing regions. It produces 95% of the domestic hazelnuts in the United States.

NPR senior political correspondent Juan Williams weighs in on the politics of the day.

Find out what Bill Clinton has been up to since he left the White House. Carol Felsenthal ’s new book, Clinton in Exile: A President Out of the White House , is based on more than 150 interviews with the former president's friends, associates, and enemies.

WNYC Political Director Andrea Bernstein and Melissa Harris-Lacewell , Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University, review the Democratic presidential primary results from Indiana and North Carolina.

In 1948, people in West Berlin were suffering and hungry when American and British pilots airlifted in billions of pounds of food and supplies. Find out how that affected West Berliners’ attitudes about democracy in the years immediately following World War II. Andrei Cherny ’s new book is The Candy Bombers .

How likely is it that Earth will become uninhabitable for humans in the near future? James Gustave Speth , dean of Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, tells us what we need to do to save it for future generations. He’s the author of The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability .

Al Gore was a senator from Tennessee, but he was unable to win his home state in the 2000 presidential elections. We find out whether this is part of a larger rightward trend in Tennessee politics. Also: why the auto industry continues to be a major part of the Volunteer State’s economy. Joseph L. White is WPLN ’s State Capitol Correspondent. He’s worked on Nashville’s Capitol Hill for more than 25 years, mostly as a journalist. States of the Union fact of the week: Tennessee was the site of the first supermarket – a Piggly Wiggly.

As the Metropolitan Opera revives the Philip Glass opera "Satyagraha." Helen Tworkov , founder of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review , is coordinating The Satya Graha Forum , a series of events exploring the on-going influence of Gandhi’s concept of active non-violence to achieve social change. She is joined by participants Pavan Sukhdev , recently appointed "Study Leader" for the G8+5 Environmental Ministers global study on the Economics of Ecosystem Degradation and Biodiversity Loss, and Mark Kurlansky , author of Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Modern Library reprint, 2008).

Former Vermont Governor and Ambassador to Switzerland Madeleine Kunin says that there aren’t enough women involved in politics. She shares her ideas for how to attract a new generation of young women to political leadership in her new book, Pearls, Politics, and Power: How Women Can Win and Lead . Event : Madeleine Kunin will be speaking and signing books Thursday, March 27 at 7 pm Bluestockings Bookstore 172 Allen Street (at Stanton Street) Weigh in: Do you think American politics would be very different in more women held elected offices? If you can't see the video click here var so = new SWFObject("http://www.youtube.com/v/61fZ6ZGMrgk&hl=en", "mymovie", "390", "321", "7", "#FFFFFF");so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");connect(window, 'onload', function() {so.write("ytcontent");});

Our series of conversations with media thinker Douglas Rushkoff, author of Get Back in the Box , wraps up today. What lasting lessons can we draw from our discussions on interactive media - lessons that don't even involve computers ?