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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's critics call him a dictator. His supporters say he's a revolutionary populist. As NPR's Jason Beaubien reports, Ortega is defying both a constitutional two-term limit on presidents and a ban on serving consecutive terms to run for an unprecedented third term. The election is Sunday.

Tuesday is Election Day in many places around the country. NPR's Political Junkie, Ken Rudin, talks to host Audie Cornish to about who and what is on the ballot, and what the results may say about the 2012 races.

Greeks outside of the Hellenic Republic are riveted by the news surrounding its debt crisis. In historic Greektown, in Baltimore, Md., Greek Americans tell WYPR's Sarah Richards that their homeland is not the only country facing problems, but it must change.

Over the last three decades, the gap between the very rich and the very poor has grown exponentially. In the yawning middle is a group for whom it's getting harder and harder to stay in place economically. Host Audie Cornish speaks with two generations of a middle-class family that face drastically different financial futures.

Environmentalists are planning to encircle the White House Sunday to protest the Obama administration's expected support of a new pipeline through the Midwest to carry one of the dirtiest forms of oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries. NPR's Richard Harris explains that the pipeline pits jobs against the environment.

Zynga is a company that makes money by selling nothing. Or, to be precise, by selling imaginary things — like tractors that plow farms on Facebook. Zynga is America's first "virtual goods" company to file for an initial public offering, but how real is the company's value?

Three-Minute Fiction is All Things Considered's creative writing contest where our listeners submit an original short story that can be read in about three minutes — 600 words — or less. Next week our judge will announce the winner of Round 7, so we decided to catch up with past champions.

Nicaraguans voted Sunday to elect their next president, but incumbent Daniel Ortega made sure he's the front-runner as he seeks an unprecedented third term. The Supreme Court declared the constitution's two-term limit unconstitutional.

Twenty-five years ago, both Central American countries were in the midst of violent civil wars. Both countries are holding presidential elections and the main candidates are icons from the 1980s.

The protesters are as adamant as ever to get their point across seven weeks after their campaign began. Hundreds will take to the streets of Manhattan on Monday for an 11-mile-long demonstration that ends in Zuccotti Park. Wall Street insider Mike Mayo, author of Exile on Wall Street: One Analyst's Fight to Save the Big Banks from Themselves, offers his insight.