Jul 03 This vivid installation splashes color across a long-abandoned military base By Corinne Segal Tucked among the sand dunes of New York City's outermost barrier reef, an installation by Berlin-based artist Katharina Grosse dominates the landscape. Continue reading
Jul 02 Watch 24:55 PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode July 2, 2016 By PBS News Hour On this edition for Saturday, July 2, ISIS claims responsibility for a terrorist attack in Bangladesh that killed at least 20 people. Later, immigrants in the American heartland are keeping rural businesses afloat. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New York. Continue watching
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