Aug 29 Watch Weekly Poem: ‘All I Know About Love’ by Lynnell Edwards Lynell Edwards reads "All I Know About Love" from her book, "The Highwayman's Wife."… Continue watching
Aug 29 Monday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, Hurricane Irene wreaked havoc on east coast box offices. Continue reading
Aug 29 Who’s Got the Bigger Economy: China or the United States? Paul Solman answers questions from NewsHour viewers and web users on business and economic news on his Making Sen$e page. Here is Monday's query. Name: David Abramowitz Question: It was recently reported that the U.S. has the… Continue reading
Aug 26 InvisiblePeople.tv Aims to Empower Homeless Through Social Media If you were looking to find a homeless person, Facebook would be a good place to start, according to Mark Horvath. "One hundred percent of the sheltered homeless that I've run into are using Facebook," he said. Horvath used… Continue reading
Aug 26 In ‘Salvage the Bones,’ Jesmyn Ward Tells Personal Story of Hurricane Katrina By Molly Finnegan "Salvage the Bones," a new novel by Jesmyn Ward, tells the story of a Mississippi Gulf Coast family in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall in the U.S. now six years ago this week. Continue reading
Aug 26 Slide Show: The New Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall Forty-eight years after he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King Jr. now has a permanent presence on the National Mall with this week's opening of the… Continue reading
Aug 26 Slide Show: The New Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall Forty-eight years after he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King Jr. now has a permanent presence on the National Mall with this week's opening of… Continue reading
Aug 26 Friday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, NASA teams up with a publishing company to make science fiction more scientific. Continue reading
Aug 26 Same Old Bad News, But No New News From Bernanke Photo of Ben Bernanke Feb. 9, 2011 by Peter Larson/Medill News Service via Flickr user Medill DC via Creative Commons. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's breathlessly anticipated speech in Jackson Hole, Wyo. Friday morning was, in essence,… Continue reading
Aug 26 Remembering and Reimagining August 28, 1963 My daily commute takes me south along the Potomac River and past the neoclassical majesty of the Lincoln Memorial, a beautiful drive I try not to take for granted. But I had been living and working in the nation's capital… Continue reading