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Julia Louis-Dreyfus' character in Veep uses the slogan "Continuity With Change." Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull is using the slogan "continuity AND change." Maybe just a little change.

This year, income taxes in the U.S. are due for most residents on Monday, April 18. Usually they are due today, April 15, but the deadline is pushed ahead to next week because Emancipation Day, a local holiday in the District of Columbia, was observed today. If you happen to live in either Maine or Massachusetts, you have until Tuesday the 19th to file because the 18th is Patriots Day in those two states. Tonight, we'll file our taxes, sort of. Each correct answer will be a two-word name, title, or phrase in which the second word rhymes with "tax."

Commentator Malcolm Mackinnon takes us through the frustration of fishing on the net, as he tries to track down the source of a famous quote. With all the patience of a fly fisher standing in a stream, Mackinnon lays out his line, time and time again, only to catch nothing, or the wrong thing. A local librarian comes to the rescue.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reporst on yesterday's debate between epublican presidential candidates in Iowa. Many predicted the candidates would ang up on front-runner Bob Dole, but the harshest attacks were aimed at Malcolm orbes.

Commentator Malcolm MacKinnon likes walking around the house at night, with the lights of his electronic appliances all around him. He says they're a comforting reminder of living in the modern age, and guide him around the darkened rooms like small beacons.

Melinda talks to Malcolm Kushner, co-creator of a humor exhibit at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, about various Presidents and their sense of humor. He says it's important for the Commander-in-Chief to know how to tell a joke, and make fun of himself on occasion.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with John Malcolm Russell of the Masschusetts College of Art and with Neil Brodie of The Illicit Antiquities Research Centre in London about the black market in looted antiquities, the laws involved and the possibility of recovering lost items. Russell is the author of The Final Sack of Nineveh (Yale Univ Press; ISBN: 0300074182).

Communist regimes collapsed across Europe in 1989... but could that have happened decades earlier? Host Steve Inskeep talks to Malcolm Byrne of the National Security Archives. Byrne helped edit a new book of documents detailing the tragic history of Hungary's failed 1956 uprising.

The Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act today. Host Michel Martin speaks with two court watchers about what the decision means.

A new PBS series explores the life of the late American icon and boxing legend Muhammad Ali. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with series co-director, Ken Burns.