2011 October | Here & Now

An odyssey to fix typos across the country led the authors of a recent book to unravel broader social issues, like “race relations, workplace repression, and education.”

Democrats vow to press ahead with other parts of President Obama’s jobs bill, after the Senate last night shot down key provisions that would have provided $35 billion to prevent the layoffs of more than 400,000 teachers, police and firefighters.

President Barack Obama announced Friday that U.S. troops will be out of Iraq by the end of the year.

From REM to Kanye West.

Edward Villella has been called America’s greatest male classical dancer. “When that curtain went up, I couldn’t wait to hit the stage…I just burst on,” he told Here & Now’s Robin Young.

At least 48 exotic animals were shot after being let loose by a private collector. Wayne Pacelle, president and CEO, Humane Society explains why he wants stronger regulations for the sale and care of exotic animals.

An American company is using a unique approach to learn from failure. Post your mistakes at Here & Now’s very own failure wall.

Novelist Russell Banks sets his new novel in a community of homeless sex offenders living under a bridge in Miami.

Moammar Gadhafi, who ruled Libya with a dictatorial grip for 42 years until he was ousted by his own people in an uprising that turned into a bloody civil war, was killed Thursday.

From Massive Attack to Groove Amanda.

At the Boston Book Festival this past weekend, Here & Now’s Robin Young sat down with authors Emma Rothschild, Michael Willrich and Mitchell Zuckoff who explain how they found their stories.

MIT grad Christina Lampe-Onnerud launched her battery company from her home in Framingham, Massachusetts in 2005. Now she’s building a factory in China.

The underdog St. Louis Cardinals meet the Texas Rangers tonight on the mount at Busch Stadium in Texas, for the first game of the World Series.

Across the country, state retirement pension funds are facing a $1 trillion shortfall, and that has many lawmakers looking to rewrite those retirement plans.

A sheriff says exotic animals on the loose in eastern Ohio were set free by their owner, who apparently killed himself on his farm.

From Steve Earle to Tortoise.

“Martha Marcy May Marlene” stars Elizabeth Olsen, sister of the Olsen twins, and follows a young woman who flees a cult-like community on a farm in the Catskills.

IBM’s supercomputer Watson was a champ on Jeopardy!, but how will he do in the doctor’s office?

According to the UN, nearly half of the deaths from Syria’s uprising have occurred in Homs. The BBC’s Sue Lloyd recently managed to get into the city and her findings are grim.

We touch down at Occupy Wall Street protests in Missoula, Montana and Grand Rapids, Michigan.