Sep 01 Text Messages Study Shows Fear Turned to Anger on 9/11 By analyzing a database of 500,000 text messages sent on Sept. 11, 2001, researchers at the University of Mainz in Germany have created an hour-by-hour psychological profile of texting Americans on that day. The pager text messages,… Continue reading
Sep 01 Pulitzer Winner Natasha Trethewey Looks ‘Beyond Katrina’ By Molly Finnegan Poet Natasha Trethewey's latest book, "Beyond Katrina," is a personal account of how the people of the Gulf Coast region, including her family, have lived with the threat and consequences of natural disasters for generations. Continue reading
Sep 01 Flow of Illegal Immigrants to the U.S. on the Decline, Study Finds A study released Wednesday by the Pew Hispanic Center found that the yearly flow of illegal immigrants into the United States dropped nearly two-thirds from 2007 to 2009 from the first five years of last decade. This… Continue reading
Sep 01 Wednesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Iraqi artists may participate in next year's Venice Biennale for the first time since 1976. Continue reading
Aug 31 Watch New Orleans’ Jazz Scene Still Hurt, Inspired by Katrina Jeffrey Brown has an update on musician Michael White who continues his efforts to keep New Orleans' musical tradition strong, five years after Hurricane Katrina. Continue watching
Aug 31 Tuesday on the NewsHour: 5 Years Later, Revisiting Katrina and a New Orleans Musician By Tom LeGro Five years after Hurricane Katrina, jazz musician Michael White is back in New Orleans, but his old neighborhood is still mostly empty. In the years since Katrina he's experienced a personal and musical "rebirth" -- another New Orleans tradition. Continue reading
Aug 31 Tuesday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, the White House announces the launch of a new dance performance series. Continue reading
Aug 30 Watch Emmys Highlight Changing Landscape of Television Business Jeffrey Brown gets two perspectives on how the Emmy Awards, television's most prestigious honor, have been signaling a major shift in programming by the major networks and smaller cable channels. Continue watching
Aug 30 Impact of Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ Rally Remains Unclear for Tea Party By Dante Chinni Glenn Beck had a good Saturday. Depending on whose crowd estimate you want to believe -- always a tricky game -- somewhere between 87,000 and 500,000 people came to the National Mall for the TV and radio personality's… Continue reading
Aug 30 Political Checklist: Obama’s Primetime Iraq Speech, Jobs Problems By David Chalian In this week’s edition of the Political Checklist, Judy Woodruff discusses the week ahead in politics, including President Obama’s primetime speech on Iraq plus what the White House may have in store to address Americans’ ongoing economic and unemployment concerns. Continue reading