Apr 16 Jim Lehrer's 'Super' Office Tour By Hari Sreenivasan I remember walking into Jim Lehrer's office for the first time last summer for my job interview and no amount of preparation could have readied me for the enormous collection of intriguing and distracting bus memorabilia in there. For a… Continue reading
Apr 16 Conversation: Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction, Paul Harding By Molly Finnegan This year's Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction was not a bestseller or a blockbuster. Its author was not a big name, and its publisher, too -- a small imprint called Bellevue Literary Press, run out of the NYU Medical School… Continue reading
Apr 16 'Doctor Who' Regenerates for a New Season By Molly Finnegan On Saturday, a new era begins for the BBC's beloved science-fiction series, "Doctor Who," the quirky and mysterious hero who time travels in a spaceship disguised as a blue police box, exploring strange worlds and occasionally saving the universe. Continue reading
Apr 16 Paul Solman Takes a Trip Down RAM Memory Lane By Carolyn O'Hara On Thursday's NewsHour, Paul Solman spoke to Dan Pink, author of a new book "Drive," about what motivates behavior and innovation in the modern workplace. PAUL SOLMAN: Executive pay and Wall Street bonuses,... might not enhance,… Continue reading
Apr 16 Friday: Europe's Travel Delays Worsen; Same-sex Partners Get Hospital Rights A woman at Erfurt Airport in Germany reads about the volcano that is disrupting travel across Europe. (Photo by Jens-Ulrich Koch/AFP/Getty Images.) The wide-scale disruption of air travel across much of Europe only got worse on Friday as… Continue reading
Apr 15 Full Video: Fla. Residents, Politicians Talk Taxes and Debt at Town Hall By News Desk TAMPA, Fla. | At a town hall meeting hosted by the NewsHour's Judy Woodruff, residents of West Central Florida asked federal, state and local government officials about the recession, partisanship, government spending and more. You can now watch the full… Continue reading
Apr 15 Conversation: Pulitzer Prize Winner in Music, Jennifer Higdon By Tom LeGro Composer Jennifer Higdon is the recipient of this year's Pulitzer Prize in Music. Continue reading
Apr 14 Spotlight City: Tax Day Town Hall in Tampa All week in Tampa, we've been exploring what Americans think about their government, including reactions to the foreclosure crisis, health care reform, federal spending and more. A pivotal part of our coverage: a town hall meeting where local residents were… Continue reading