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When most people think of anarchists, they picture radicals running wild in the streets of Seattle breaking windows at The Gap and Starbucks. But this isn't always the case. Commentator John Ridley goes in search of a real, live anarchist at the Republican National Convention.

When Commentator Ted Rose moved from New York City to the Shambhala Mountain Center, a Buddhist retreat in the Colorado Rockies, people talked about the meditation schedules and the communal eating. No one mentioned the center's open-air crematorium.

Senior news analyst NPR's Daniel Schorr cites a new poll that shows that since Sept. 11, 2001, world opinion of the U.S. is sinking.

Democratic hopefuls are pursuing a variety of strategies in their quest to amass delegates for this summer's nominating convention. But some are running out of gas. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Donna Brazile, the political operative who managed Al Gore's presidential campaign in 2000.

Richard Ford, author of The Sportswriter and Independence Day, has written a new novel entitled The Lay of the Land. Independence Day was the first book to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Theologian Dwight Hopkins provides a historical perspective on black liberation theology. Hopkins is an ordained Baptist minister and a professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

First-time novelist Ruth Downie's new book is Medicus: A Novel of the Roman Empire. The protagonist is a put-upon Roman doctor stationed in Britannia.

In his new book Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party, investigative reporter Max Blumenthal theorizes that a culture of "personal crisis" has transformed the Grand Old Party — and threatened its future.

In The Demon Under the Microscope, author Thomas Hager tells the story of the first antibiotics and the German scientist most responsible for developing them, Gerhard Domagk.

Nicholas Blanford is the Beirut correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. His new book, Killing Mr. Lebanon, is about the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.