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There is more child sexual abuse content online than ever before. And not just on the dark web, but on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. What can the major tech companies do to stop it?

In her first in-depth interview, Roxana Saberi, who spent four months in an Iranian prison, talks about the events leading to her arrest, why she gave a false confession to the Iranian authorities that she was a spy, and what ultimately kept her going.

Sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom discusses upending stereotypes of black womanhood.

To mark Veterans Day, Fresh Air presents interviews with Iraq War veterans Brian Castner and Kayla Williams, and WWII veteran Robert Kotlowitz. Also, Brian Turner reads his poem Here, Bullet.

By George Olsenhttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/pre/local-pre-538257.mp3New Bern, NC – (Complete transcript of interview follows…

If Congress fails to make a deal on government spending and taxation before Friday, federal cuts of more than 85 billion dollars will be enacted. NPR White House correspondent Scott Horsley discusses the politics of a potential deal and the options for avoiding sequestration.

NPR's Brooke Gladstone talks with historian Stephen Ambrose about a mission that unfolded in the early hours of D-Day to seize a strategically important bridge. Ambrose is the author of a book about the mission, Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 (Touchstone Books, 1988).

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Andy Banta from Orangevale, California. He listens to Weekend Edition on member stations KXJZ and KXPR in Sacramento.) (6:45)

Jen Sincero's You Are a Badass appears at No. 6.

Jeffrey Eugenides tracks a Brown graduate's reawakening in The Marriage Plot. It debuts at No. 6.