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Days before the Emmy winners are announced, NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans hands out his own awards — The Deggys — for shows that should be recognized.

Dr. Wahid Majrooh tells NPR that millions of dollars in aid has been frozen, some health workers are leaving the country and there's a shortage of key medical supplies.

A lawyer who lost her job. A single mom with HIV. A grandmother who thought she had enough money to get by. A onetime golf coach. They're among the millions now struggling to put meals on the table.

In the fourth and final part of a series of essays about his life in France, Commentator David Sedaris talks about his April in Paris based on his own experiences in the City of Light, collected in Me Talk Pretty One Day.

Alex Van Oss visits the nation's oldest lending library, the 250-year-old Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, Rhode Island. Still in its original neo-classical building, the Redwood is steeped in history and contains numerous antique books. Heirloom portraits and Greek sculptures adorn the hallways. Thomas Jefferson was an early visitor. Henry and William James were regular brousers, as were Edith Wharton, Emma Lazarus, and Julia Ward Howe.

Host Renee Montagne talks to Dr. Enoch Gordis, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism about a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. According to the study the drug ondansetron used to treat nausea in cancer patients can help alcoholics reduce their drinking significantly.

Commentator Paul Raeburn says Detroit should stop worrying about making environmentally friendly automobiles and start making cars with fins.

Host Renee Montagne talks to Michael Tsao, owner of the Kahiki Tiki Bar in Columbus, Ohio about the closing of the Tiki bar, which is on the National Historic Registry.

Commentator Frank Deford says what women athletes choose to...or not to wear is fine with him.

NPR's Tovia Smith reports from Boston on ethics complaints against the Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor. Jane Swift may have violated the state's conflict-of-interest law by asking her staff to babysit and move her family to a new house. But some say Swift is being made a scapegoat by conservative groups, who would have applauded a male official for the same things for which she is being criticized.