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Improv legend Matt Walsh is a founder of the Upright Citizens Brigade, and an Emmy nominee for Veep. With baseball starting again, we ask him three questions about legendarily bad announcers.

The Iraqi National Congress, an exile group that provided the Bush administration with intelligence on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, defends the information it supplied as the search for banned weapons so far proves fruitless. U.S. and British officials have come under attack for allegedly twisting intelligence to make the case for war. Hear NPR's Nick Spicer and Hugo Young, columnist for the British newspaper The Guardian.

The 78-year-old singer is currently performing at Birdland in New York City. Previously, Carroll spent 25 years playing at Bemelmans Bar at the Carlyle Hotel. This year, she received three lifetime achievement awards; one of them was the Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award. Carroll has a number of albums to her credit; her latest is the new solo album Morning in May.

Many of the people who harvest the abundant crops in Southern California's Coachella Valley have no decent place to live. For the "Housing First" series, NPR's Ina Jaffe reports on one community's attempt to address the housing shortage for migrant workers.

What would you do if a colleague had the symbol of a white supremacist organization on his personal pickup truck? Are you obliged to share the information with your bosses? Randy Cohen, who writes "The Ethicist" column for The New York Times Magazine, discusses that ethical dilemma and others in his latest appearance on All Things Considered.

Her new book, Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950's, is about her two-year affair with the writer Patricia Highsmith. They met at a Greenwich Village bar and were both writing lesbian pulp novels under pseudonyms. Meaker wrote Spring Fire (1952) under the pen name Vin Packer. It sold 1.5 million copies. She also wrote under the name Ann Aldrich. Meaker writes young adult novels under the name M.E. Kerr. Highsmith is known for her classic novels Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley.

As the 140th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg approaches, historian James McPherson tours hallowed ground with NPR's Liane Hansen.

With the release this weekend of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, our summer reading series features Eden Ross Lipson, the children's book editor at The New York Times. In lieu of the Harry Potter books, she recommends Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy: The Golden Compass (Del Rey; ISBN: 0345413350), The Subtle Knife (Del Rey; ISBN: 0345413369, and The Amber Spyglass (Del Rey; ISBN: 0345413377). She also likes Cornelia Funke's The Thief Lord (Scholastic; ISBN: 0439404371).

In a series of closed hearings, House and Senate committees examine whether U.S. intelligence about possible illegal weapons in Iraq were exaggerated to justify war. Meanwhile, U.S. officials say they expect 20,000 to 30,000 troops from other countries, including the Netherlands, Slovakia, Denmark and the Ukraine, will be in Iraq by August. Hear Dana Priest of The Washington Post and NPR's Michele Kelemen.

NPR's Elaine Korry profiles the search engine company that has thrived at a time when so many electronic-based enterprises have failed.