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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.

Robert talks with Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Center for People and the Press, about yesterday's elections and what the results mean for the nation. Kohut says that although there are discernable patterns in voting, there is no really defined pattern of what all the results of the races mean politically. Overall, mainstream political ideas carried the day...and neither the Republicans nor the Democrats ended up with a mandate.

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.

The say officers stopping passengers on the bridges from the gate to the plane, questioning them, and searching their bags is unconstitutional. The suit stems from separate incidents in 2020 and 2021.

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.

Sarah McCammon talks to Variety's Gavin Bridge about how sports fandom and viewership is shifting in the U.S.

Blue Seal ice cream was launched after World War II for American soldiers stationed in Okinawa, Japan. Today, it's a fusion of American and Okinawan tastes that's loved by locals and tourists alike.

Our feature OKI Wanna Know answers listener questions, like this one about mysterious faded purple signs.

President Trump ended the Digital Equity Act that funded equipment and services for communities and organizations that are underserved by high-speed Internet. We look at who's affected and how.

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.