Apr 19 Watch Joel Achenbach Explores Gulf Oil Spill in 'A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea; Hari Sreenivasan talks to Washington Post reporter and author Joel Achenbach. Continue watching
Apr 19 S&P's Dire Warning: Of Any Significance At All? Call me a contrarian -- or just your garden-variety journalist/skeptic -- but when I read the much-ballyhooed Standard & Poor's announcement yesterday, I shook my shiny head. "Because the U.S. has, relative to its AAA peers,… Continue reading
Apr 19 Video: 'Where Children Sleep' By Larisa Epatko In his project, "Where Children Sleep," photographer James Mollison explores how the sleeping spaces of children around the world reveal much about their lives. Sadly, the notion that we're all born equal is not the case, he says. Continue reading
Apr 19 Watch 2:35 'Where Children Sleep': An Intimate Portrayal of How Children Live By Larisa Epatko In "Where Children Sleep", James Mollison photographs children around the world. Continue watching
Apr 19 Tuesday's Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, a modern art museum, the Collection Lambert in southern France, said protesters destroyed a photograph by American artist Andres Serrano, "Immersion (Piss Christ)."… Continue reading
Apr 18 Watch Jennifer Egan's 'A Visit From the Goon Squad' Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The winners each recently sat down with Jeffrey Brown to talk about their work. Continue watching
Apr 18 Making Sen$e: How Much Did President Obama Make in 2010? By Paul Solman Editor's Note: The First Family's 2010 tax return was released today. We've pulled out some of the more interesting numbers in a graphic. Here's the snapshot: the Obamas reported an adjusted gross income of $1,728,096, about $3.78… Continue reading
Apr 18 Newspapers' Haiti Earthquake, Russia Coverage Among Latest Pulitzer Prizes The 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday afternoon, recognizing achievement in journalism and the arts. The prestigious awards are administered by Columbia University. View the full list of winners, and links to the stories, here. Among the… Continue reading
Apr 18 2011 Pulitzer Winners Announced The 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced Monday at a ceremony at Columbia University in New York. Continue reading
Apr 18 Tornadoes Kill Dozens, Destroy Homes Across Southeast Severe weather and a series of tornadoes wrecked havoc across fourteen states in three days. Tornadoes touched down in Kansas and Oklahoma on Thursday before moving to Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia on Friday. They hit the Carolina's and Virginia on… Continue reading