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Ben Affleck's tense, humor-tinged thriller is being talked up as the Best Picture favorite. But what does that even mean?

From First Lady Michelle Obama handing out the Best Picture award to Best Actress winner Jennifer Lawrence taking a tumble, the 85th Academy Awards was full of surprises. Host Michel Martin recaps the evening with People magazine's movie critic, Alynda Wheat.

The death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans at the hands of extremists there quickly became an issue in the 2012 presidential race. Republican Mitt Romney accused the administration of making an "apology for America's values," and of sending "mixed messages to the world."

The United States Anti-Doping Agency released more than 200 pages of documents in its case against the cyclist.

Our panelists tell us three stories of parents trying to motivate their adult children, only one of which is true.

The creator of the acclaimed AMC series talks about his protagonist — Don Draper — as an aging existentialist looking for meaning in a chaotic world. He says the show's sixth season, set in 1968, is situated in that historical moment for a reason: to reflect a traumatic passage in Don's life.

This past weekend, Sherpas on Mount Everest attacked a team of elite climbers after an altercation about etiquette and falling ice on route to Camp 3. Audie Cornish talks with the photographer who was part of the climbing team, Jonathan Griffith, about the skirmish and a widening cultural chasm between local Sherpas and western climbers who pay big buck to summit the mountain.

With the capture Friday night of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old surviving suspect in the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the story moves into a new phase — one of trying to answer critical questions. In particular, are there more bombs and are other people involved?

Audie Cornish talks to regular political commentators E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution, and David Brooks of The New York Times. They discuss Syria, the immigration reform bill and the opening of George W. Bush's Presidential Center.

China's one-child only policy and historic preference for boys has led to a surplus of marriageable Chinese men. Young women are holding out for better apartments, cars and the like from potential spouses. And prospective in-laws are socking away savings to try to appeal to a future daughter-in-law.