Culture & Society
Next Avenue
Hearing her 'clunkers' at the piano, a caring son starts to prepare for what he knows is coming next. Continue
Independent Lens
Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady filmed Detropia with the hopes that all Americans would see themselves mirrored in their portrait of the Motor City, which depicts both overwhelming hardship and new possibilities. Continue
Blank on Blank
Interview by Leonard Lopate, WNYC, March 4, 1996 Executive Producer: David Gerlach Animator: Patrick Smith Continue
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Can gays become straight? For years, experts have said no, that homosexual orientation cannot be cured by therapy. But first quietly, now with national publicity, some Christians are saying yes, gays can change with religious counseling. The claims are controversial, the data elusive, but as Mary Alice Williams reports, the movement thrives. Continue
Next Avenue
When the author's dad died, she didn’t know what benefits were available. It took 21 years, but she finally did the right thing. Continue
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Economic prosperity and modernity are beginning to have an impact on religious life in Thailand, a country that is 95 percent Buddhist but that in the last 30 years has seen the number of Buddhist monks decrease by about half. Continue
National Memorial Day Concert
Joe Mantegna and Gary Sinise, discuss the meaning of Memorial Day and the personal significance it has for each of them. For the first time, these distinguished actors perform together on the Concert, sharing the story of twin brothers who joined the National Guard two weeks before 9/11. Continue
National Memorial Day Concert
Learn more about the 60th Anniversary of the Korean War Armistice and the “National Memorial Day Concert” tribute to all the veterans of this “forgotten war.” Continue
National Memorial Day Concert
Watch as Gary Sinise and Joe Mantegna pay tribute and Chris Daughtry performs for the service men and women returning from recent deployments. The Daughtry song “Home” was a highlight of the PBS National Memorial Day Concert (2012). Continue
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
This Grammy-Award-winning artist’s new album, "spirityouall," includes his interpretations of classic African-American spirituals as well as songs he composed. Through all of them he hears the influence of his father, Robert McFerrin, Sr., who was an operatic baritone. Continue
Global Voices
The world’s largest garbage village is just outside Cairo. The Zabaleen (Arabic for “garbage people”) recycle 80 percent of the trash they collect, but now multinational corporations threaten their livelihood. Follow three teenage boys born into the business who are forced to make choices that will impact the survival of their community. Continue
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Watch Bobby McFerrin's recent performance of "Fix Me Jesus" in the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis. Continue
To The Contrary
Former Senator Olympia Snowe spoke with To the Contrary about her new book, "Fighting for Common Ground," how to create bi-partisanship in Congress and her next act. Continue
Blank on Blank
Interview by Rocci Fisch for ABC News Radio, 1985, Washington, D.C. Continue
Next Avenue
A gerontologist argues that 'ikigai' — the Japanese concept of value and self-worth — is crucial to growing old gracefully. Continue
American Experience
An obsessed artist struggles against bankruptcy, public indifference, and a brutal terrain, to build the great American monument, Mount Rushmore. High on a granite cliff in South Dakota's Black Hills tower the huge carved faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Together they constitute the world's largest piece of sculpture. Continue
National Memorial Day Concert
Find out more about how the life of veteran actor and decorated hero of WWII, Charles Durning, who will be honored as part of a tribute to the Greatest Generation. Continue
PBS NewsHour
NewsHour continues its examination of different aspects of debate on immigration reform. Ray Suarez gets two views on H-1B visas -- how the program for highly skilled foreign workers is structured and how it may change -- with Vivek Wadhwa of Stanford University and Ron Hira of Rochester Institute of Technology. Continue
To The Contrary
Teen birth rates have gone down in all but two states of the United States. Continue
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Watch more of our interview with the Grammy-award winning artist about his faith and his music. Continue
