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NPR's Bob Edwards talks with The Hill staff writer Jim Snyder, about his recent article "Lobbyists Have Their Feelings Too!"

OPEC oil ministers meeting in Algeria pledge to cut oil production by 1 million barrels a day beginning in April. More immediately, OPEC seeks to end the so-called "cheating," or overproduction, in which member states currently surpass production quotas. Analysts estimate that practice adds as much as 1.5 million barrels a day to current limits. NPR's Jack Speer reports.

Police predict that as the water level drops because of drought, more bodies will be found.

Film critic David Edelstein reviews The Dreamers, the new film by Bernardo Bertolucci.

The recent Massachusetts high court ruling saying the state constitution gives same-sex couples the right to full-fledged marriage has been welcomed by many gays and lesbians. Even so, the obstacles and hurdles ahead make many wonder whether the ruling will ever go into effect. NPR's Tovia Smith reports.

The book Slithery Jake takes a family on a comic hunt for a missing pet snake. Rose-Marie Provencher wrote the tale for young readers, with vivid illustrations by Abby Carter. Daniel Pinkwater joins NPR's Scott Simon to read aloud from the book.

Ahead of Tuesday's primary vote, Sen. John Edwards is in Madison, Wis., trying to drum up support and votes. Edwards is running a distant second in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, behind frontrunner Sen. John Kerry. Hear NPR's John McChesney.

His new book is The Working Poor: Invisible in America. Shipler is a former reporter for The New York Times. He's also written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times. His book Arab and Jews: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land won the Pulitzer Prize.

Music critic Michelle Mercer has a hard time with most of the love songs that flood the airwaves around Valentine's Day. She says they don't express the ambiguousness and ambivalence of real love -- so she set out to find a song that does just that.

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, one of the nation's largest labor unions, withdraws its support for Howard Dean, in a major blow to the former Vermont governor's presidential campaign. Meanwhile, the major transit workers' union endorses frontrunner Sen. John Kerry. NPR's Juan Williams talks with AFL-CIO President John Sweeney.