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Our founding myth suggests the Americas were a lightly populated wilderness before Europeans arrived. Historian Charles C. Mann compiled evidence of a far more complex and populous pre-Columbian society. He tells John Ydstie about 1491.

President Bush is on his way home from a four-country tour of Asia. His last stop was in Mongolia, where he expressed thanks for that country's contribution to the Iraq war effort. He also praised Mongolia's movement toward democracy and a more open economy.

President Bush says he's made up his mind on a successor to take Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. The president will announce his pick at 9 p.m. ET, Tuesday.

The latest album from legendary tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins is Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert. Rollins, who turned 75 last week, talks about the album, the Sept. 11 attacks and the death of his wife Lucille.

Today was the first day of school in Lafayette, La. -- for local kids and for more than 4,000 students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Chip Taylor is a music business vet who penned "Wild Thing" before Carrie Rodriguez was born. But the unlikely duo are critical darlings and staples of adult album alternative radio.

Rock critic Ken Tucker gives the band Dr. Dog a listen. The five-piece rock band from the suburbs of Philadelphia has cut three albums in a home studio. The latest is Easy Beat.

In Waveland, Miss., many hurricane victims have stayed out of government shelters and set up a tent camp. Conditions are difficult, and some people who lost nearly everything are looking for a way to escape the town.

A joint study by inspectors general for the Pentagon and State Department says Iraq's police service needs to do a better job of recruiting. The 96-page report released Monday said poor vetting procedures have admitted recruits with criminal backgrounds and even insurgents planning terrorist attacks.

Author and actor Martin Moran's new memoir is The Tricky Part: One Boy's Fall from Trespass into Grace. As a boy, he was sexually abused by a male counselor at a Catholic boys' camp. Nearly 30 years later, Moran went to see the man again at a convalescent home.