Recently by Jeffrey Brown
Video Games: Violent, Yes. But Do They Make Us Violent?
February 15, 2013 | Psychologist Brad Bushman and public health expert Cheryl Olson weigh in on the impact of violent video games on behavior. Watch the full report on PBS NewsHour Tuesday. I remember some years back when I first...
Did Shakespeare Have Syphilis?
January 25, 2013 | Writing a book is "a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness," George Orwell once said. The literary giant behind "1984" and "Animal Farm" was comparing his life's work to the many...
Dispatch from Athens: The Road to the Acropolis is Closed
December 13, 2012 | One of Athens' famous demonstrations. Photos via Twitter by Jeffrey Brown ATHENS -- I know from reading Homer: The gods were having a bit of fun with me. We had been kidding John Psaropoulos, the local producer we're working with,...
Days of Beer and Cheeses -- Covering Wisconsin's Recall Election
June 4, 2012 | "Supporters of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wave to drivers from a foot bridge above I-94 outside Milwaukee on June 1. Photo by: Terence Burlij This was a return visit, nicely bracketed. By chance I'd been in Wisconsin just two...
U.S. Ambassador to Haiti: The Emergency Is Not Over Yet
January 7, 2011 | The emergency response phase in Haiti is not yet over, but the process of reconstruction is moving forward, Ambassador Kenneth Merten told Jeffrey Brown this week in Port-au-Prince. "We are at the one year point now, and things have been...
Video Dispatch: Battling Cholera in Rural Haiti
January 6, 2011 | Jeffrey Brown is in Haiti this week reporting on reconstruction efforts after last year's earthquake. He's also following up on the country's ongoing cholera outbreak, which has killed more than 3,300 Haitians. He filed this dispatch on the cholera story...
Video Dispatch: Haiti, a Year Later
January 3, 2011 | Jan. 12 will mark one year since a powerful earthquake rocked Haiti. The NewsHour's Jeffrey Brown is reporting in Port-au-Prince and beyond this week on life in the country a year later, the recent cholera outbreak and more. Brown filed...
Justice Breyer on Weight of Decisions Such as Bush v. Gore, Gitmo
October 7, 2010 | Senior Correspondent Jeffrey Brown spoke with Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer Thursday afternoon about his new book "Democracy at Work" and life on the court -- and he asked the high court judge a few additional questions for our...
A Downbeat Derby Weekend: Writer Trots Out Horse Racing's Money Woes
April 30, 2010 | This annual running of the Kentucky Derby -- this weekend marks the 136th running -- is meant to mark a joyous time of the year, with its frilly hats, mint juleps, betting slips, and of course, the horses. But the...
Egypt's Foreign Minister Discusses a Nuclear-Free Middle East
April 12, 2010 | The two-day nuclear security summit that President Obama is hosting in Washington this week is grand in terms of the number of countries attending, but tightly focused in its stated agenda: Finding ways to secure the materials -- highly enriched...
Michael Lewis Explores the Financial Meltdown in 'The Big Short'
March 24, 2010 | The author of several well-known bestsellers including "Moneyball" and "The Blind Side," Michael Lewis has written about a wide variety of subjects, ranging from how the Oakland A's baseball team picks its players to the Silicon Valley tech scene. Lewis...
New Biography Looks at the Man Behind the Pulitzer Legacy
February 18, 2010 | Most of us have heard of the Pulitzer Prize, the annual awards honoring excellence in journalism. But what about the men behind it? Joseph Pulitzer was a penniless immigrant who arrived in the United States in 1864 speaking no English....
Forum: Rocco Landesman Will Answer Your Comments and Questions
January 15, 2010 | I recently had the chance to talk with new NEA chairman Rocco Landesman for an interview we aired earlier this month. Landesman was an interesting choice for the position, coming from the commercial world of Broadway, and he immediately got...
Unveiling the Latest and Greatest in E-Reading Technology
January 8, 2010 | Every week, it seems, there's an announcement of a new electronic reader -- a new gadget for reading that is NOT one of those of soft or hardbound pieces of printed matter we've all carried around with us all our...
Jeffrey Brown: New Series Will Explore the Next Chapter of Reading
December 10, 2009 | It's six years ago now that I interviewed Philip Roth about his novel, "The Plot Against America," and his life as a writer. Near the end of that conversation, I asked Roth how he saw his own role, the role...
Jeffrey Brown: Here's to a Year of Art Beat
December 4, 2009 | Hard to believe, but it's been a year since we launched Art Beat, NewsHour's arts and culture blog. For the NewsHour generally, Art Beat has greatly increased our ability to delve into the arts, reporting on and presenting so much...
