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President Obama's decision to station a group of U.S. Special Operations forces on the ground in Syria may be difficult to reconcile with earlier promises of no boots on the ground there.

Umberto Eco's new novel centers around a fictional Italian newspaper in the '90s. Its editor believes a conspiracy theory about Mussolini's murder. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Eco about Numero Zero.

Trivia expert A.J. Jacobs tells NPR's Scott Simon that Frankenstein may not have been such a brute after all. And Dracula was just misunderstood.

While it's a popular sport overseas, rugby has struggled to get a strong foothold in the U.S. One program in Memphis, Tenn., is now having a lot of success, earning even international attention.

The game is called "You know, we still exist in nonelection years, too." Three questions about Iowa, where every four years the political press descends like a plague of locusts in sport coats.

News of the attack closely followed a similar one on another publisher, who was set upon in his office along with two other people, both of them writers.

At 81, feminist Gloria Steinem says she feels free of the "demands of gender." Maureen Corrigan reviews The Witches, by Stacy Schiff. Carrie Brownstein describes finding (and hiding) herself in music.

Facing their close rival Australia in the finals of the Rugby World Cup, New Zealand's All Blacks are now back-to-back champions, winning 34-17.

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Latino audiences can make or break horror films in the box office, but right now their presence behind the camera might be even more significant.