Politics Dec 02

// Pioneered by Senators Orin Hatch, R-Utah, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., the DREAM Act seeks to provide a path to citizenship for people brought to the United States illegally as children. On Tuesday, Senate Democrats issued their fifth version…

Politics Nov 09

// Two years after being elected, President Obama has returned to his boyhood home of Indonesia. The shortened trip, only 24 hours, is the second stop on his 10-day Asia tour. Despite still reeling from a recent tsunami and exploding…

Science Jul 08

An experimental plane powered only by solar energy completed 26 hours of non-stop flying over Switzerland Thursday. The Rundown took a look at the feat and asked for some reactions to the Solar Impulse test flight from around…

Arts Jun 29

Five years ago, Frontline/World correspondent Amy Costello reported on a new kind of water pump being developed in southern Africa. The “PlayPump” operated like a merry-go-round, with the added benefit of pumping clean water into a tower that…

Health Jun 21

Nearly 40 years ago, a group of French doctors and journalists created an international humanitarian organization to bring medical aid to those who were most vulnerable. Now operating in more than 60 countries, Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)…

Science Jun 03

On Thursday morning, six astronauts will be locked in a 550 cubic-meter windowless complex in Moscow. The mission: to simulate the experience of a real trip to Mars and back. The "voyage" will take 520 days, roughly 12 months longer…