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As a prisoner of war in the "Hanoi Hilton," Air Force fighter pilot John Borling spent years composing and memorizing poetry that he tapped to fellow prisoners, like the future Sen. John McCain, using a special code.

How much do we read into ourselves when we write a diary? Author Patrick DeWitt recommends the dark, deep journal of a man suffering from a nervous breakdown.

Novelist Jodi Picoult explores life and death, while oncologist David Agus models new health practices, virologist Nathan Wolfe tracks emerging diseases, Dava Sobel reflects on Copernicus, and Charles Shields looks at novelist Kurt Vonnegut.

Eighty-seven years after an elaborate hoax on the island of Nantucket, islanders recreated the event. A giant sea monster appeared on the island Monday.

"Leaders are not born," Granny says. "They're made through molding and modeling." That's why she and her granddaughter and putting on their hats and coats and walking to the polls.

The Electronic Entertainment Expo 2005 is showcasing its wares at the Los Angeles Convention Center this week. Farai Chideya discusses the gaming industry and the new products being launched with tech expert Mario Armstrong. She also has a conversation about controversial games, character stereotypes and careers for blacks in the electronic entertainment field with Armstrong, Nicole Bradford of Vivendi Universal Games and Joe Salter, CEO of Entertainment Arts Research.

The jazz-vocal superhero moved to Michigan when she was only 3, but the city of her birth left an indelible impression. Hear it in the first single from her forthcoming album, Memphis.

In 1977, gunmen led by a charismatic Muslim leader stormed three locations in Washington, D.C., taking more than 100 people hostage. Journalist Shahan Mufti examines the incident in a new book.

The trial concluded after more than two years of back-and-forth and division in the hip-hop world. Lanez was found guilty of shooting fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion.

Thousands of years before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert got under President Trump's skin, ancient Greek and Roman poets and philosophers paid a heavy price for displeasing heads of state.