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Commentator Jack Beatty says the presidential campaign is already incredibly nasty and he thinks that is in part because there is so little difference between Senator Dole and President Clinton on the issues. He says they have to beat each other up in negative ads because it fills the ideological void.

In the first of two reports on Mexican immigrants, NPR's David Welna visits a poor town in the Mexican heartland which for the past fifty years has had a steady stream of its young men leave for the United States. Some of those who left Cotija (coh-TEE-ha) are undocumented workers; others have legal status. Most of those who leave return home in the winter months, when work is harder to find. By working the US, they have incomes many times greater than what they could make back home. The migration to the U-S has created a shortage of men in Cotija, but the money they send back is crucial to the town's survival.

and a top forecaster predicts there will be fewer storms than last year. 1995 was one of the most active seasons in the last century.

Film critic Bob Mondello reviews "Cold Comfort Farm" by director John Schlesinger -- a tale of a snippy London observer of rural weirdness.

for Israel and hope peace talks would go forward under Benjamin Netanyahu as Premier.

Saturday will preside over "Stand for Children" one of the biggest gatherings of child advocacy groups ever the nation's capital.

Commentator Lee Cullum writes about the effect of big business on democracy. She claims that the power of markets and big companies is already huge, but still growing...and that government can do very little to stop the forces of commerce.

Robert and Noah talk about today's Supreme Court decision which struck down congressional redistricting laws in Texas and North Carolina. We'll also hear tape from a representative of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and her reaction to the court decision.

An audio postcard from NPR's Melissa Block in New York, who stumbled upon a movie set in New York, without realizing it...

Weekend Edition's Daniel Schorr speaks with Marshall Goldman, Associate Director of the Russian Research Center at Harvard University and Melor (MELL-or) Sturua (stir-OO-ah), Senior Fellow at the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Policy, about Sunday's elections in Russia.