Using hashtags like #NBCFail, Olympics fans have tweeted complaints of delayed and incomplete programming and streaming restrictions for the London Games. Gwen Ifill talks to USA Today's Christine Brennan and The New York Times' Richard Sandomir about how online viewers are experiencing NBC's coverage of the 2012 Olympics.
As the fastest-growing minority in the country, Asian-American voters will be courted by political candidates like never before.
Walter Dean Myers is an award-winning author of over 100 books, written especially for young adults and children. Now appointed as the Library Of Congress' National Ambassador For Young People's Literature, Jeffrey Brown reports on how reading and writing helped Myers as a child, as well as his current professional goal: to get more kids reading.
Find the best of the PBS NewsHour’s international reporting and analysis.
Online coverage of the arts from Jeffrey Brown and NewsHour reporters.
On-the-ground reports from Ray Suarez on health issues around the world.
Track how 12 different U.S. communities adapt to changing economic times.
Profiles, readings and conversations with contemporary American poets.
Find the best of the PBS NewsHour’s political reporting and analysis.
Paul Solman explains the ins and outs of the global economy.
Covering efforts to tackle the world's biggest challenges in the smallest of ways.
Purpose-built videos for teachers supported by lesson plans with content-based standards.
Bringing the views of ordinary citizens to the national discussion on the important issues of the day.
Coverage of the critical issues in science and technology reporting.
Judy Woodruff explores how young people are handling the economic downturn.
While Asian-Americans haven't received the most attention in past election cycles, they're the fastest growing minority group in the country. On a recent trip to Nevada, the NewsHour talked to a handful of Asian-American voters about what issues are of greatest importance to them.
In the Somali capital Mogadishu, Mohammed Saeed Hassan was driving his ambulance one day in February when an artillery shell landed directly in front of him.
Economist Larry Kotlikoff, author of the wildly popular "34 Social Security Secrets You Need to Know Now," is accepting your Social Security questions.
A study by the National Endowment for the Arts reveals that economically disadvantaged students who participate in the arts tend to score higher in math and science, and are more likely to plan for college.
As foreign and local radicals rise amid the chaos of Syria's civil war, Christians are taking arms from the Assad regime.
Tuesday's news features a positive sign among the economic downers of flat U.S. consumer spending and eurozone unemployment. On the U.S. housing front, all 20 cities in the Case-Shiller index saw an increase in prices, even Detroit.
Remarks Mitt Romney made over the weekend in Israel have overshadowed his visit to Poland, where on Tuesday he delivered a major foreign policy speech in Warsaw praising the friendship between the United States and the Eastern European nation.
More than 600 entrepreneurs and technology and government leaders came together at this year's Next Generation of Government Summit to hear speakers, attend presentations and participate in workshops about how to improve government.
From 8-bit melodies to compositions that rival the best film scores, video game music has come a long way. An in-depth listen to video game music and interviews with the people who make it.
[MPR's "Top Score"]
An audio timeline spanning the six decades of Nelson Mandela's life and the struggle of apartheid, told by the people who lived it.
[Radio Diaries]
July 31, 2012
After 16 months of fighting between government and rebel forces, Syria's bloody conflict was declared a "civil war" by the International Committee of the Red Cross. With an estimated 14,000 Syrians killed in the conflict so far, the battle between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and the rebel Free Syrian Army has no end in sight.
