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The term "Pro-Government Conservatives" is a new grouping in the Pew Research Center's typology of voters. The group tends to live south of the Mason Dixon line, religion is important to them, and many of the women work. Family and finances are big concerns for them.

Religious scholar Reza Aslan explains to Robert Siegel why the Muhammad cartoons recently published in several European newspapers are offensive to Muslims. The depiction of Muhammad is considered blasphemous by many in the Muslim world and has prompted vigorous protest.

David Greenberger reviews a new CD called "Rigging the Toplights" by a Chicago trio called Pinetop Seven. While many of the lyrics onthis album are dark and fearsome, Greenberger hears a strangely hopeful message in them. ("Rigging the Toplights" is released by Self-Help/Atavistic(ALP310). For more information, visit www.atavistic.com.

Across the country, ordinary garden plants have become aggressive invaders. Many invasive plants are still sold in nurseries and coveted by unsuspecting gardeners. Is there a chance your "coveted plant" might escape into the wild? NPR's Ketzel Levine takes a closer look at how a good plant goes bad.

NPR's Phillip Martin reports on a controversial piece of art in Boston Harbor- a liquid natural gas tank adorned with large rainbow stripes. Many people claim that a face is visible in one of the stripes, and there have been "sightings" of everyone from Ho Chi Minh to Osama Bin Laden since the painting was completed in the early 1970's.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is featuring a broad survey of art made by artists who called themselves surrealists -- and by many who didn't. David D'Arcy reports that the art movement itself defied rigid definitions, but curators keep trying.

Theaters no longer screen shorts before the features, and some of the Internet sites that many hoped would provide perfectly-suited forums for shorts are now defunct. Yet there is more than one film festival devoted to them. NPR's Howie Movshovitz reports on the future of short films.

American and other western residents of Saudi Arabia are increasingly jittery amid the looming prospect of war in neighboring Iraq. Many fear new terrorist attacks by Islamist militants outraged over the U.S. invasion of another Muslim state. NPR's Kate Seelye reports from Riyadh.

Tens of thousands of anti-war protesters march in London, many calling for British Prime Minister Tony Blair to resign. The demonstration is smaller than marches held before hostilities began, but it's considered the largest war-time peace rally in Britain's history. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports.

U.S. Marines moved with relative ease through much of eastern Baghdad, which is now under their control. While many Iraqis celebrated by cheering and dancing in the streets over the apparent collapse of their government, others celebrated by wholesale looting. NPR's John Burnett is with the Marines in Baghdad.