Rice meets with Lebanese PM to initiate diplomatic efforts that might end nearly two weeks of fighting across the Israel Lebanon border, but is a ceasefire realistic?

Here & Now takes a closer look at how Iran may be manipulating some of the events in Lebanon and Israel as part of a larger effort to become a dominant player there.

Lawrence F. Kaplan, Senior Editor of The New Republic, explains that as the threat of civil war in Iraq grows, it is even more important that the US does not pull out.

Liberia, the first African nation to elect a female head of state, is also the first to arrest and extradite a former head of sate.

Here & Now looks at how blogging began and what it has become.

Only A Game Host Bill Littlefield speaks with tennis great, Martina Navratilova, who, at age fifty, has just announced her retirement.