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Rick Perlstein's book, Nixonland, combines an evocative trip through the 1960s and early 1970s with an assessment of the impact of Richard Nixon's political career. Perstein argues that many of the deep political divisions in modern American politics were defined by that period, and exploited effectively by Nixon.

There were thousands of flights canceled Wednesday morning following an outage of a key information system for flying.

Journalist Frances Harrison has been the BBC's correspondent in the Iranian capital city of Tehran for the past 3 years. She says conditions have gotten worse, especially for women, under the increasing strictures being put in place by the ultraconservative Islamic government.

Russia and Georgia have signed a cease-fire, but the conflict continues. Journalist James Traub, author of The Freedom Agenda: Why America Must Spread Democracy (Just Not the Way George Bush Did), discusses the latest developments.

Comedian Will Ferrell will receive the 14th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor later this month at the Kennedy Center. The comedian became famous as a cast member on Saturday Night Live and went on to star in movies such as Old School and Elf.

Husband-and-wife team Win Butler and Regine Chassagne lead the band Arcade Fire, a seven-member art-rock outfit that deploys everything from the piano to the hurdy-gurdy.

A man walked into Taco Bell and ordered seven Beefy Crunch Burritos. He discovered the price had gone from $.99 to $1.49. The man fired an air gun at an employee and when police chased him, he fired an assault rifle before being subdued with tear gas.

His starring role as George W. Bush in the Oliver Stone film W. was just one in a series of high-profile jobs for Josh Brolin — including the Oscar-winner No Country for Old Men. He was also seen last year in American Gangster and In The Valley of Elah.

Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield are the directors behind the hit nature documentary series Planet Earth. Their new movie, Earth, uses some of the same footage but is "character-based" rather than "habitat based."

The latest CD from New Orleans trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard is A Tale of God's Will, whose subtitle is "A Requiem for Katrina." Parts of the recording were heard in Spike Lee's HBO documentary When the Levees Broke.