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As millions of dollars flow into aid organizations helping the victims of the tsunami, newspapers and Web sites continue to list mostly the largest and most reputable relief organizations. But some people have begun to suggest donations to smaller, indigenous grassroots organizations. NPR's Margot Adler reports.

Also: Flooding forces hundreds of thousands to flee in the Philippines; the U.S. presidential race gets even dirtier; it's gold medal day for women's beach volleyball.

After California Democrats voted for a plan to gerrymander congressional districts, a top Republican is proposing to split the state in two. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Assemblyman James Gallagher.

Abby Grossberg, a producer for Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo, alleges Fox News attorneys coerced her to lie under oath in a defamation case against the network. Fox fired her on Friday.

It's not a list of criminals — it's the most common tax scams and they could affect you. David Greene talks with Nina Olson, National Taxpayer Advocate at the Internal Revenue Service.

In the animated world, just about anything goes: Toys talk, mice are chefs, and pandas do kung fu. In animation, the sky's the limit. In this encore broadcast, we learn about the hundreds of people working on big studio features who spend their days figuring out how to manufacture this silliness from the ground up. (This story originally aired on All Things Considered on Nov. 27, 2013.)

The 2018 Oscars airs this weekend, but there's a key player in filmmaking that won't be recognized at the awards — the stunt coordinator. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with stunt coordinator Jack Gill about what it's like to direct action scenes and what his favorite movies of the past year are.

Global instability has rejuvenated both classified and unclassified demand for table top war games. The people who play them take the games very seriously.

After initially passing on it last month, North Dakota GOP Rep. Kevin Cramer will challenge Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. Republicans had been struggling to recruit strong candidates in top races.

George Orwell's 1949 novel, 1984, was a hit when it came out, slipped into obscurity, and then was reborn after the BBC adapted it. It's remained popular ever since, but the Trump administration's "alternative facts" have pushed it to the top of the Amazon bestseller list.