After a week of statements of outrage and a congressional hearing, there appears to be more heat than light when it comes to discussion of the Internal Revenue Service's singling out of conservative groups for extra scrutiny when applying for tax-exempt status.
Defense Secretary Hagel said he will do everything necessary to fix the military's sexual assault crisis, while some in Congress advocate a solution that lies partly outside the command ranks.
Forty years ago, in the summer of 1973, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer led public television's gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings -- co-anchoring all 250 hours of the proceedings and launching the beginnings of what is today the PBS NewsHour. MacNeil and Lehrer discuss how their partnership changed the face of television journalism and their lives.
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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.
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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.
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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.
President Thein Sein becomes the first leader of Myanmar to visit the White House in 47 years on Monday. The meeting is viewed as an affirmation of the nation's democratic transition. Some advocacy groups are concerned that the Obama administration is rewarding Myanmar with a visit before Thein Sein has followed through on all of his promises for reform.
Fifty-two percent of women over 60 aren't married and nearly 70 percent of those over 75 are single. What Social Security benefits are they entitled to? And what about single or divorced men?
On Monday, PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien will serve as master of ceremonies at an event honoring the legacy of astronaut Sally Ride at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. This is the column that O'Brien wrote immediately following Ride's death in July 2012, after a 17-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
Paul Solman looks back to the 1912 presidential election when economic disparity between the rich and poor was a key issue in debates between William Taft, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.
Although the brood II cicadas aren't expected to emerge en masse until late May or June, a nice crop of them nested in a batch of poison ivy in Virgina’s Bull Run Regional Park on Thursday. Their veiny wings and bright beady red eyes clung to grass, leaves and tree bark.
It is another Gatsby/Fitzgerald moment. "The Great Gatsby" is on the big screen now directed by Baz Luhrmann. Jeff Brown talks to a F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar about what fascinates so many to continue to write books about the American author and reinterpret his classic novels on film.
With small signs of relief in the Eastern U.S., the forecast now shows more trouble ahead as the drought is expected to intensify in the West and Central Plains this summer, according to NOAA.
A leading economist explains why game theory has become so important in economics, and how Jane Austen anticipated its results 200 years ago.
While the number of illegal crossings at the border has plummeted dramatically, just as many people are dying. This means for those coming into the country illegally, it is now more deadly and more lethal, than at any time in recent U.S. immigration history.
[Need to Know]
While much criticism has been lobbed at the federal system for failing to adequately identify who is spending money to influence campaigns, 35 states have independent spending disclosure laws that are less stringent than federal election law. See a state-by-state report card.
[Center for Public Integrity]
The Invisible War is an investigative documentary about one of America’s most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film, a 2013 Oscar nominee, paints a startling picture of the extent of the problem and the systemic cover-up by the military.
[The Invisible War]
May 17, 2013
On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., setting off the political scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon.
