Jul 02 Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 87 By Corinne Segal Eli Wiesel's writing illuminated the horrors of the Holocaust and explored questions of Jewish identity in the years that followed. Continue reading
Jul 02 Watch 6:25 These floating piers let visitors (almost) walk on water By PBS News Hour For the past two weeks in Italy, a lake has been transformed with floating piers that allow visitors to walk on water. The fanciful public installation comes courtesy of the renowned conceptual artist Christo. NewsHour Special Correspondent Christopher Livesay has… Continue watching
Jul 02 This traveling clown troupe brings moments of joy to Syrian refugees By Corinne Segal Clown Me In is a Beirut-based clowning group that performs for young Syrian refugees. Continue reading
Jul 01 Watch 3:12 There’s no shame in making summer reading fun By PBS News Hour Make sure you cover up this summer — with sunscreen. But your chick lit, schlocky novels, and frivolous fiction? No way, says writer Jennifer Weiner summer reading in her NewsHour essay. Embrace the F-word this Fourth of July, she says. Continue watching
Jul 01 Watch 6:25 How sexual rivalry, fist fights and other shenanigans drove Ernest Hemingway By PBS News Hour A photo of Ernest Hemingway sitting with a mischievous-looking group in Pamplona inspired Leslie M. M. Blume’s new book, “Everybody Behaves Badly.” It was 1925, a year before Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises,” hit. The group was a volatile mix,… Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch 6:35 The unsung women heroes of America’s space program By PBS News Hour They were living, breathing, walking, talking calculators who were key to America’s early space program. And they were women — and largely forgotten. At the time, the supercomputers that NASA now uses to crunch its numbers didn’t exist. Nathalia Holt… Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch 3:39 Tig Notaro explains how to make breast cancer funny By PBS News Hour Comedian Tig Notaro lost her mother, ended a long-term relationship and got diagnosed with breast cancer all in the same year. It was, she says, more than she could handle, but it also spurred a writing spree that helped her… Continue watching
Jun 29 Watch 7:25 Sebastian Junger’s ‘Tribe’ examines loyalty, belonging and the quest for meaning By PBS News Hour The NewsHour continues our series on great summer reads with the latest from Oscar-nominated documentarian and “Perfect Storm” author Sebastian Junger. It’s called "Tribe: On Homecoming And Belonging." It's a modern take on what we can learn from tribal societies… Continue watching
Jun 29 Watch 54:11 PBS NewsHour full episode June 29, 2016 By PBS News Hour Wednesday on the NewsHour, an update on the deadly attack at Istanbul’s busy airport. Also: CIA Director John Brennan talks global security, the education of incarcerated teens, the Juno spacecraft’s five-year mission to Jupiter, why the head of the 2016… Continue watching
Jun 28 Watch 6:25 Bringing diversity, identity and brown faces to children’s books By PBS News Hour Celebrated writer Sherman Alexie has just published his first children’s book, “Thunder Boy Jr.” He talks with Jeffrey Brown as part of our series on great summer reads and makes the case that books for kids need to show more… Continue watching