Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007 | The Kojo Nnamdi Show

Kinky Friedman defies categorization. He's a Jewish cowboy, country singer, humor novelist, magazine columnist, founder of an animal-rescue ranch, a former (and likely future) independent candidate for Texas governor, and now a cigar...

The United States is the leading supplier of weapons to the developing world, according to a new report by the Congressional Research Service. We explore the highly competitive international arms market, and how our strategic goals...

Many American writers have tried their hand at the road novel. But Mark Danielewski takes this classic genre onto an entirely different plane, creating a book that reads backwards, forwards, and sideways as it tells the story of two...