Columnists David Brooks and E.J. Dionne discuss the week's top political news, including President Obama's State of the Union address, Mitt Romney's vulnerability and Newt Gingrich's debate performances.
Margaret Warner speaks with a Time magazine reporter about the nation's escalating violence.
Rae Armantrout's poetry often explores the intersection of the public and the private. The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's latest book, "Money Shot," tries to make sense of the financial crisis through our everyday experience.
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.
In our PBS NewsHour political coverage this year, we are making a special commitment to seek out the opinions of the people who actually cast the votes. And in each of the contests we have covered so far, we've found they do not disappoint.
The U.N. Security Council designated Jan. 27 an international day of remembering the Holocaust's millions of victims. View some of the events and memorials in our slide show.
One of the Senate's leading hard-liners on Myanmar, Sen. Mitchell McConnell, R-Ky., said he is hopeful about the political reforms that are now underway in that country.
Business and economics correspondent Paul Solman answers the following reader question today: If the stimulus program of 2009 was included in the federal budget and the budget was not subsequently reduced, did we in effect get an equivalent stimulus program, or more, in 2010 and 2011?
These days, the fear is that institutions that sold insurance on Greek debt -- Greek credit default swaps -- will be obliged to pay up if Greece were to officially default. And that they won't be able to meet that obligation, leading to global credit freeze 2.0.
In contrast to Iowa, where the drama of the campaign played out in coffee shops and small town halls, and where voters took pride in meeting the candidates personally -- the contest in the Sunshine State has scaled up.
Paul Solman looks at a pair of posts on the Eurocrunch -- about where the action really is.
As Egyptians amassed in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the start of their regime-changing revolution, many are still divided on where they see the country going.
As GOP presidential hopefuls campaigned in Florida ahead of Tuesday's primary, PBS' Need to Know spoke with the state's vast senior population on Medicare and Social Security -- issues that could unsettle a Republican field where "entitlement reform" has been a central concern.
[Need to Know]
Since 1981, Dave Makings, a professor at the College of Southern Idaho, has been teaching teachers how to use cutting-edge technologies in the classroom -- from an early word-processing model to an intricate database of math and science lesson plans.
[Learning Matters]
Jan. 27, 2012
Youth from around the world answer the question "what does the Arab Spring mean to you?" and submit a photo that, to them, shows what the movement is all about.
