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Host Jacki Lyden opens up our mailbag, and reads some of our listeners' letters.

This week marks the 25th anniversary of Robert Altman's film Nashville. Altman discusses his film career with Jacki Lyden. The director of M*A*S*H and The Player has been nominated for Academy Awards four times.

Host Jacki Lyden speaks with New York Times Magazine reporter Benjamin Weiser. One of his recent articles gives a detailed account of one man's harrowing journey. Diagnosed schizophrenic Kerry Sanders was falsely imprisoned for two years, a sentence that should have been served by Robert Sanders, a fugitive with a long criminal history.

NPR's Aaron Schacter reports that as the Democrats prepare to open their convention this Monday, groups of activists are holding their own conventions. But unlike the multi-million dollar affair taking place at Staples Center, this group of activists decry the influence of money in politics - and the two-party system itself.

A research economist says the jobs electric automaker Rivian has created at its plant in Normal should boost wages in the community and create an economic "ripple effect."

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on the canonization of Tsar Nicholas the Second by the Russian Orthodox Church. The Tsar and his family were the best known victims of the Russian Revolution in 1918, but there is controversy surrounding their canonization as so-called "New Martyrs."

Aaron Alpern of Wyoming Public Radio reports on the status of the Black-footed Ferret. The species was declared extinct in 1979, but two years later one was found in Wyoming, and eventually a colony was discovered and nursed back to health.

Weekend Edition's Popular Culture Commentator Steven Stark says that there is news of note concerning the selection of Senator Joseph Lieberman as Al Gore's running mate on the Democratic ticket, but it's not the fact that Lieberman is Jewish.

Lisa talks with Robert H. Nelson, a professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, about his claim that mismanagement on the part of the U.S. Forest Service has turned the American West into a tinderbox. He suggests that if the government were to relax restrictions on the commerical timber industry, the threat of uncontrolled forest fires would be greatly reduced.

The Chinese government also restricted private tutoring in an effort to even the playing field among students.