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A former Army machine gunner has won the Blooker Prize, awarded for the best book that began as a blog on the Internet. Colby Buzzell's book, My War: Killing Time in Iraq, is an account of post-invasion Iraq. It began as a blog written directly from the war zone.

A new study by the Government Accountability Office shows that women in the U.S. military have to pay more for required uniform items, but receive less allowance for it.

Margaret Sartor offers an account of growing up in 1970s Louisiana in Miss American Pie, a memoir of adolescence told through diary entries written during Sartor's girlhood.

An expert assigned to untangle the finances of Indian tribes, managed by the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, says the answer is to jettison the current system and start over. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports that billions of dollars that Native American lands earn pass through the BIA and that money is supposed to be paid to individuals and tribes. The expert analyzing what went wrong says antiquated accounting practices and other forms of mismanagement require the establishment of a new agency to handle the money.

to get Holocaust victim's money from secret Swiss accounts. American Jewish leaders are again calling on Swiss banks to find and redistribute money deposited during the Nazi era. Under international pressure, Switzerland is conducting an investigation into what happened to the money deposited by European Jews, and how much is owed to Holocaust survivors or their families.

NPR's Vicky Que reports on Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler's decision to resign his position. The Clinton Administration had asked him to stay through the President's second term, but Kessler decided to step down. Kessler, a pediatrician and an attorney, was the object of widespread acclaim for his pressure on President Clinton to tackle the powerful tobacco industry...but had come under some fire in recent days regarding his expense accounts.

In the high country of northern Arizona, there has long been friction between police departments and the Navajo and Hopi. By all accounts, the situation has dramatically improved in the last 20 years. But relations between the police and Native Americans, as well as Hispanics, remain tense in the towns bordering the reservation, especially with rising apprehensions about gangs. This includes the mountain town of Flagstaff, Arizona, long considered the most tolerant of the Indian border towns. Sandy Tolan reports.

Jacki Lyden talks with former Chicago Tribune staff writer Sonsyrea Tate (SAHN-sur-ray). Tate is author "Little X: Growing up in the Nation of Islam" (Harper Collins San Francisco). It's a multigenerational account of her family's life in the Nation of Islam. A Washington DC native, Tate's grandparents joined the Nation of Islam in the 1950s. She notes the good and bad sides of her experiences before leaving the Nation of Islam as an adult and studying Orthodox Islam.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court threw out an opioid ruling against Johnson & Johnson, raising questions about the legal strategy used to hold the drug industry accountable for the opioid crisis.

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Nicole Weekes, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Pomona College in Southern California, about whether gender differences explain why more men than women take up careers in math or science. Harvard University President Lawrence Summers recently suggested that such differences in part accounted for the gender gap science and math related jobs.