Feb 23 Bradley Cooper Joins Effort to Find 'Silver Lining' in Mental Health Future EmbedVideo(5819, 482, 304); WASHINGTON -- "Silver Linings Playbook" isn't just receiving good reviews from the critics. At a press conference at the Center for American Progress, in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, many were singing the movie's praises… Continue reading
Feb 22 Watch Steencamp Death Sheds Light on Violence Against Women in South Africa Steencamp Death Sheds Light on Violence Against Women in South Africa… Continue watching
Feb 22 Watch Gun Violence Is Public Health Crisis in Chicago So far in the first two months of this year, gun deaths in Chicago have already outpaced last year's explosive rate. Elizabeth Brackett of PBS member station WTTW explores the escalating public health crisis in Chicago due to the high… Continue watching
Feb 22 Ingredients for an Oscar Win: Cocktails for Your Viewing Party By Meredith P. Garretson Alcohol has often held a starring role on the silver screen. Academy Award-nominated actress Greta Garbo's opening line in the 1930 film "Anna Christine" (her first part in a "talkie" film) with the immortal words "Gimme a whisky, ginger ale… Continue reading
Feb 22 Americans Support Range of Proposals to Reduce Gun Violence Editor's note | This post was updated at 5:52 p.m. to correct the language around New York's gun law as it pertains to magazines. A little more than a month after a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary… Continue reading
Feb 22 The Oscar Documentaries, Part 5: '5 Broken Cameras' By Molly Finnegan We're talking to all of the filmmakers nominated this year for an Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary Feature, including David France, director of "How to Survive a Plague," Malik Bendjelloul ("Searching for Sugarman"), Kirby Dick… Continue reading
Feb 22 Live Chat: How Foreign Countries' Gun Control Laws Compare to U.S. In the aftermath of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., gun control policy has sparked constant debate. As gun control laws and policies continue to shift in America, so too are changes occurring abroad. To offer… Continue reading
Feb 21 Watch Oscar Front-Runners and Wild Cards in a 'Good Year' for Grown-Up Movies Oscar Front-Runners and Wild Cards in a 'Good Year' for Grown-Up Movies… Continue watching
Feb 21 Watch Student Voices Chime in on Preventing School Shootings By PBS News Hour In the wake of the Newtown shootings, high school students who participate in NewsHour's Student Reporting Labs from all across the country shared their views on the gun debate in a Google Hangout moderated by Hari Sreenivasan. Continue watching
Feb 21 Live Chat: Mind of a Rampage Killer What combination of circumstances compels a human being to commit the most inhuman of crimes? Can science in any way help to understand these horrific events and provide any clues on how to prevent them in the future?… Continue reading