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William Zinsser, author of the classic guide On Writing Well, talks to Michele Norris about the challenges of writing personal history. He says that since the 1990s, many memoirs have focused on victimhood, rather than forgiveness.

Our body's largest organ is the skin, something many people fail to realize. The history of skin is the history of humanity and reveals much about who we are. Nina Jablonski's new book, Skin: A Natural History, takes a closer look at this intimate and universal subject.

With control of Congress still undecided, several seats have yet to be called in the House and Senate — many with very tight margins as votes continue to be counted.

In a small town in Chad, climate change, regional conflicts and rising commodity prices have driven shortages, which have been exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine many thousands of miles away.

U.S. businessman Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911. His blockbuster 1937 book, 400 Million Customers, recently has spawned a crop of imitators, and many of his insights into doing business in China still hold true today.

Fifty years ago this month, some teenagers threw a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Today that party is considered by many "the birth of hip-hop."

Israel has not let up in its airstrikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Many civilians are among the casualties. Dr. Abdel Aziz Thabet, who works with community mental health programs in Gaza, is a British-trained psychiatrist working mostly with women and children. He talks about the effects of the Israeli bombing raids on Palestinian civilians.

The walls of Dublin's Kilmainham Jail hold two centuries of Irish history, but the place is most strongly associated with the Easter Rising of 1916, which laid the seeds for Ireland's eventual break from British rule. Many nationalists were held and executed there.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the most common method of execution is constitutional. Prisoners from Kentucky had argued that the three-drug combination could potentially cause excruciating pain. Many states have been delaying executions waiting for the ruling.

The South Carolina GOP primary is just days away, but many Republican voters still haven't made up their minds about whom to support. They find that most of the candidates don't fit in to the traditional conservative mold.