Sep 04 Conversation: Writer, Professor Mark Slouka on America's 'Dehumanized' Education By Arts Desk As students head back to high schools and colleges across the country, an essay in the September issue of Harper's Magazine declares that, "Education in America today is almost exclusively about the GDP."… Continue reading
Sep 04 Around the Nation, Friday Roundup By Arts Desk Here are some of this week's arts and culture headlines from public broadcasters around the nation. Continue reading
Sep 03 Health Care Reform Splits Retailers In a summer of health care reform twists and turns, few things may have surprised the public more than the debate over the positions that their favorite -- and least-favorite -- places to shop have taken on the issue. Continue reading
Sep 03 Of Dollars and Spidey Sense: Disney Has Much to Gain by Purchasing Marvel Disney's plan to buy Marvel Entertainment, Inc. for $4 billion opens up the gates of the Magic Kingdom to a whole host of new characters and helps complete the evolution of comics from a dime-store fringe market to a global… Continue reading
Sep 02 Two Decades On, India Eye Clinic Maintains Innovative Mission By Talea Miller In this Reporter's Notebook, Fred de Sam Lazaro visits the Aravind Eye Care System, 20 years after he first reported on the hospital in 1989. Continue reading
Sep 02 A New Deal for Artists Artists today have a number of safety nets to help ease the pain brought on by a battered economy, but during the Great Depression it took a federal stimulus program of sorts to protect many of the nation's painters and… Continue reading
Sep 01 Slide show: a Look at Festivals By Arts Desk Images from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, the "300% Spanish Design" expo in Mexico City and the Hindu Ganesha Festival in India. Continue reading
Aug 31 Weekly Poem: 'Erasers' Mary Jo Salter is a poet, lyricist, playwright and essayist, whose latest collection of poems, "A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems," was published in March 2008. Continue reading
Aug 28 Conversation: Josh Neufeld Revisits Katrina By Arts Desk Josh Neufeld's "A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge" tracks the lives of New Orleans residents as they fled or remained, and then struggled to cope in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Continue reading
Aug 27 Jessye Norman, the Roots Team Up for Langston Hughes' 'Ask Your Mama' Five years ago, Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman stumbled across a copy of Hughes"Ask Your Mama." She was instantly struck by the power and potential of the piece, believing it cried out to be realized as a 21st century multimedia… Continue reading