Nation Jan 19 Third Women’s March returns to D.C. amid anti-Semitism controversy Thousands gathered in Washington D.C. for the third annual Women’s March on Saturday, following controversy over alleged anti-Semitism against the organizers. With issues surrounding climate change and the government shutdown on the agenda, around 300 marches also took place in…
Nation Jan 06 Midwest battles to keep invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes Asian carp are invasive fish that grow fast, jump high and have taken over large swaths of the Mississippi watershed. And now, state and federal governments are worried the Great Lakes are next. On everything from electric fences to contracted…
Arts Dec 15 Nils Lofgren: 50 years of ‘just being a guy in the band’ As we learned a few years ago in the Oscar-winning film “20 Feet from Stardom,” sometimes the best singers in the band are those who are seldom center-stage. They have the game, just not quite the fame. The same can…
Arts Nov 17 Drugs, anxiety and sobriety define Jeff Tweedy as much as his music After losing their record label in 2002, Wilco released “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” online, which ended up on a list of Rolling Stone’s top 500 albums of all time. But singer-songwriter Jeff Tweedy wrote in a new memoir “Let’s Go (So…
Politics Nov 04 How FiveThirtyEight calculates the data of a divided nation Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight blog burst onto the political scene in 2008, when he forecasted the popular vote for president within one percentage point. Becoming a key point of reference during elections, he started a podcast in 2016, and says his…
Nation Oct 28 Pittsburgh mourns as names of synagogue shooting victims emerge A day after 11 people at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh were killed in the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in U.S. history, communities there were mourning and considering what precautions will help them feel safe. Meanwhile, suspect…
Arts Oct 21 Moab Music Festival draws fans to Utah’s ethereal desert For the past 26 years, the Moab Music Festival has been attracting fans from around the world for some of the most unique performances of classical and chamber music. During three weeks in September, the southwestern town, located near Arches…
Arts Oct 14 Designing accessible fashion for people with disabilities Nearly one in five people in the U.S. identify as having a disability, but it can be difficult for people with disabilities to find clothing that is both stylish and meets their needs. NewsHour Weekend’s Megan Thompson reports on the…
Arts Oct 07 John Waters on the art of shocking audiences This weekend, a major retrospective of filmmaker John Waters' work, titled “Indecent Exposure,” opened in his hometown at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Often satirizing violence, celebrity and sexuality, the cult film director has long pushed limits of cinematic decency…
Health Aug 11 Do prescription drug middlemen help keep prices high? Americans pay more for prescription drugs than any country in the world, and the pharmaceutical industry earns billions in profits each year. Critics blame pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, for a portion of those high costs through their role as…