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Commentator Baxter Black details a specific kind of person, at least in his world view -- the Horse Person.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Jeff Greenfield, Senior Analyst with CNN, about his book The People's Choice. Greenfield says he wrote the book 5 years ago to explore one of the most implausible election scenarios he could imagine. But now, his fiction doesn't seem too far from reality.

Commentator Paul Durrenberger discusses what being busy means in our society. He says that being busy is equated with being important, and that today's pecking order is determined by who waits for whom.

In the first part of a series this week on the tortured politics of the Balkans, Noah speaks with Susan Woodward, author of Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War. She offers a primer on who's who in the former Yugoslavia.

One-hundred-thirty prisoners in Washington and Oregon volunteered in the 1960s and 1970's to participate in a federally sponsored experiment to determine the affects of radiation on sperm production. After the experiments, they received vasectomies. Now they are seeking compensation from the federal government, saying they were coerced into taking part in the experiments. From KOPB in Portland Oregon, Jeff Brady reports.

In this week's StoryCorps, a conversation with Joseph Rogers Britton, a caregiver who has been working with AIDS patients for four decades.

The day before American voters go to the polls, Steve Inskeep talks to columnist and commentator Cokie Roberts and Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Tony Nominee Andy Karl from Broadway's Groundhog Day shares what makes the script irresistible and his thoughts on movies turned musicals. Plus a game about weather forecasters who became celebrities.

Italian-Americans celebrate St. Joseph's Day on March 19 with a traditional pastry called a zeppole — a specialty for a family bakery in Providence, R.I.

Jazz may have been born in America but it has grown into a global form. We've got a playlist that ranges from a Pakistani version of "Take Five" to a love song with scatting in Mandarin.