2011 October | Here & Now

Seven of the eight major Republican presidential candidates will be in Nevada Tuesday for a debate. Will they address the state’s most pressing issues?

From Bonobo to Avishai Cohen.

Palindromes are words or sentences that read the same backwards and forwards. And for Barry Duncan, the word puzzles became an obsession. Read his and share your own.

Two migrating shorebirds managed to survive a hurricane and tropical storm–It was the pit stop in Guadeloupe that did them in.

As the economy crumbles in Greece, the Greek minister of health reports that suicides are up 40 percent.

Last week, federal authorities charged a man with hacking into the e-mail accounts of celebrities like Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis. A computer security expert explains how to make a fool proof password to avoid being hacked.

Matt Bai, of the New York Times Magazine, writes that the GOP establishment is hoping to co-opt Tea Party firebrands, and find a presidential candidate who can “persuade these new activists that the party has to be– and sound– pragmatic.”

From Blockhead to Avishai Cohen.

HBO’s “The Wire” has been off air for three years, but it’s still being taught in colleges across the country. We revisit a conversation with actor Michael K. Williams, who played Omar, and Donnie Andrews, who inspired the character.

Hackers are gaining access to the computerized systems of cars and trucks, and there’s not a lot drivers can do about it yet.

The BBC’s Caroline Hawley visited a jail in Tripoli where she sat down with Gadhafi loyalists who were imprisoned there.

We touch down with two veteran political reporters in NH and Iowa to see how the GOP candidates are doing in those states.

From the Ventures to Taylor Swift.

Kathy Gunst takes us month by month through the produce that’s in season and recipes that work best. See recipes for her roasted mushroom soup, maple-carmelized apples and more.

Embarrassed by what pops up when you Google yourself? A growing number of reputation defending services are popping up to help.

Lenders have begun to increase the number of loan default notices to homeowners, even as sales of re-possessed homes slow.

Fordham University sociology professor and activist Heather Gautney says Occupy Wall Street is one of many leaderless movements in history and she explains how it works.

Former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain has surged ahead of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in the race for the GOP presidential nomination, according to polls by NBC/Wall Street Journal and Public Policy Polling. Is he the latest flavor of the month or will he last?

From Blockhead to Bonobo.

Steve Almond’s new short story collection looks at life in the U.S. “We got wars going on, we have people who are chasing dreams that they’re not going to live up to,” he says.