Nation Sep 29 Opioid addiction is the biggest drug epidemic in U.S. history. How'd we get here? Every day brings another story about the depth of the country’s opioid crisis. A rise of pain killer prescriptions from doctors and a pharmaceutical industry eager to boost sales in the 1990s sparked a wave of addiction that shot up…
Politics Sep 29 Brooks and Klein on Tom Price's plane scandal, Trump taking aim at the NFL New York Times columnist David Brooks and Ezra Klein of Vox join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s news, including the resignation of Tom Price as HHS secretary over expensive chartered flights, the anti-establishment upset in the Alabama Senate runoff…
Poetry Sep 29 Navigating Seattle's ever-evolving streets through poetry How do you capture Seattle’s complications, quirks and ever-changing population? A new digital project is mapping out the evolving city by collecting poems that tell unique stories, from growing up in an affluent neighborhood to memories of homelessness and cold…
Nation Sep 29 Desperation in Puerto Rico fuels frustration with federal response Long lines are a stark fact of life for the people of Puerto Rico, with little assistance from the outside world reaching small towns nine days after Hurricane Maria. But the U.S. military and Puerto Rican National Guard units are…
Episode Sep 28 PBS NewsHour Full Episode Sept. 28, 2017 Thursday on the NewsHour, the wreckage of Hurricane Maria poses a logistical nightmare for those in need in Puerto Rico. Also: The technology Russia used in the 2016 election under scrutiny, Yemen's war-induced humanitarian crisis worsens, the influence of Playboy…
Nation Sep 28 The identity crisis of losing a baby to miscarriage It took just 10 minutes to flip a switch in Ariel Levy’s body and mind to make her into a mother. The journalist was on her final major overseas reporting trip, in rural Mongolia, when her pregnancy ended prematurely and…
Economy Sep 28 How Ellen Pao realized women 'cannot succeed' in Silicon Valley frat boy culture Ellen Pao sent Silicon Valley a wake-up call about sexism in tech and finance when she filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against her employer, a powerful venture capital firm. She lost her case and her personal reputation was damaged along…
Nation Sep 28 Remembering Hugh Hefner, American mogul of sex Playboy founder Hugh Hefner died Wednesday at 91. First published in 1953, the magazine made Hefner the face of sexual liberation in the 1960s and a subject of feminist critique. Jeffrey Brown looks back at Hefner’s legacy with Amanda Marcotte…
World Sep 28 Biggest challenge of Yemen's humanitarian crisis is making the world pay attention Yemen’s civil war has killed more than 10,000, as a coalition led by Saudi Arabia fight against Houthi rebels and their allies. Diplomats from Europe, the Middle East and the U.S. met in Geneva Thursday seeking to establish an international…