Apr 02 Watch NRA Group Offers Proposal for Armed Security Personnel at Every U.S. School NRA Group Offers Proposal for Armed Security Personnel at Every U.S. School… Continue watching
Apr 02 Poet Gerald Stern Looks Back on a Career Spent Reading and Writing By News Desk Jeffrey Brown talks with Gerald Stern, one of America's most acclaimed poets. At 87, Stern received the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress for his collection, "Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992." Stern reflects on his working class… Continue reading
Apr 02 The Tuesday Cutline…a Contest By Tom LeGro "Houston, uh, we have a problem." It looks like these astronauts were dropped off in the wrong place -- like the line to buy Powerball tickets, maybe? Write a caption to the photo above, and we'll send the author of… Continue reading
Apr 02 A World Tour to Meet a Florist, a Barber and Other Microloan Entrepreneurs By Larisa Epatko They live continents apart -- Symon in Kenya and Bo in Cambodia -- but they have a common thread. Both started small businesses with microloans they received through the networking website Kiva. Continue reading
Apr 01 Watch An Awakening in India to Scourge of Violence Against Women Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from India on the country's efforts to tackle the issue of violence against women. This response comes after the gang rape and murder of a female medical student in Delhi last year. Continue watching
Apr 01 Watch Texas Rocked by District Attorney Shooting In an update on two shootings, prosecutors pushed for the death penalty for James Holmes, the shooter in the massacre at an Aurora, Colo., theater. In Kaufman County, Texas, District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife were shot dead in… Continue watching
Apr 01 Weekly Poem: ‘Song’ By Tom LeGro Cynthia Zarin is the author of four books of poetry -- "The Swordfish Tooth" (1989); "Fire Lyric" (1993); and "The Watercourse" (2002); and "The Ada Poems" (2010) -- and five books for children. Continue reading
Apr 01 The Daily Frame By Tom LeGro Students from Swansea Metropolitan University use mirrors to look up to a fresco by Thomas Wallace Hay, which is on display in a recently restored room in the National Trust's Dyffryn House near Cardiff, Wales. Continue reading
Mar 29 Watch Novel Offers Mock How-to on Finding Success in ‘Rising Asia’ Novel Offers How-to on Finding Love and Success in 'Rising Asia'… Continue watching
Mar 29 On the NewsHour: Mohsin Hamid, Author of ‘How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia’ By Molly Finnegan A poor young boy from an impoverished village comes to a sprawling, wild, sometimes violent city, where he makes and loses a fortune. This is the tale of "How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia," set in an unnamed… Continue reading